By: bafflegab

bafflegab — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:51:25 +0000

Also if you want to play with analog and early digital era beat boxes, rhythm machines and gazoopers, just get a few old Lowery organs from estate sales. Even the Lowery service manuals are informative and interesting to read. The gazoopers, as organ guys called the easy-play and rhythm machine features, usually separate from the rest of the organ (sic) pretty easily, and small component value changes often make them sound like rock and roll percussion instead of the treacly tones their geriatric customers preferred.

By: bafflegab

bafflegab — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:31:31 +0000

The way to buy books like this is go on eBay and look under Books, Wholesale and Bulk Lots. A lot of times the seller will have a whole pile of these TAB/G-L (TAB was the successor to the Gernsback Library) books on everything from converting cars to diesel engines to sand casting to rebuilding aircraft engines, and you get the whole pile for less than one book. Many TAB books were sold through a book club deal.

Most TAB electronics books are poorly edited and several contain dangerous or erroneous info that can cause a newbie a lot of problems, but there are a few jewels in the pile. The best TAB author was probably Joe Carr who was either a very good writer or had his work edited before submission.

There’s a guy on eBay that buys piles of old electronics books cheap and sells them by putting them in the categories of the subject instead of under Books, then puts photos and flowery copy of their contents without putting the titles and authors in. It’s a scam because most of these books are worthless for DIYers despite his statements that they will enable them to do all the stuff he describes. I’ve turned him in a bunch of times with no results.

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