Oscillator-playing tone tool, 1st experiment
Dublin Core
Title
Oscillator-playing tone tool, 1st experiment
Description
Watercolour, ink and graphite on paper. Illustration of instrument (a modified sewing machine) with handwritten explanations and instructions. 14.2 x 25.7cm
Excerpt from Percy Grainger's daybooks 1944-1960: Thursday 25 October 1951
‘Red Letter day for Free Music [red ink] Burnett brot $15 oscilator, having recorded 2-, 3- & 4-part trials with it at home. . . . I got sewing machine & drill to play oscilator [red ink]’
Burnett Cross: ‘The oscillator was a Morse code practice device with a continuously variable pitch produced by a loudspeaker (in the case). Its single vacuum tube operated on house current (110 vols). PG at once set to work to find out how its pitch-knob could be controlled.’
Excerpt from Percy Grainger's daybooks 1944-1960: Thursday 25 October 1951
‘Red Letter day for Free Music [red ink] Burnett brot $15 oscilator, having recorded 2-, 3- & 4-part trials with it at home. . . . I got sewing machine & drill to play oscilator [red ink]’
Burnett Cross: ‘The oscillator was a Morse code practice device with a continuously variable pitch produced by a loudspeaker (in the case). Its single vacuum tube operated on house current (110 vols). PG at once set to work to find out how its pitch-knob could be controlled.’
Creator
Date
Sketch drawn 23 November 1951. Instrument made 25 October 1951
Rights
Copyright Grainger Estate
Format
Watercolour and ink on paper, 27.9 x 21.9cm
Identifier
04.0182