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Solicitation for Looping History



Like Andre, I would like some input to a presentation I will be doing 
at the Y2K2 LOOPFEST in Santa Cruz.  I'll be giving a short talk 
about the history of looping. A lot of what I'll cover is well 
presented in Michael Peters' "The Birth of Loop" on the Loopers 
Delight Web site:

<http://www.loopers-delight.com/history/Loophist.html>

If anyone has something to add to to that material please post it to 
the list. I already know about Hugh LeCaine's 1955 "Dripsody" (made 
with the first version of his Special Purpose Tape Recorder) and 
Karlheinz Stockhausen's 1966 "Solo" (performed with a custom tape 
delay system). I'd especially welcome any information about Les 
Paul's early use of tape loops, Pierre Schaeffer's Morphophone, Otto 
Luening's tape system, and other lesser-known systems.

The Vintage Echo Units pages at:
http://homepages.enterprise.net/greenworld/index.htm
are a wealth of information about commercial tape-loop based systems, 
but if anyone has supplementary information it would be useful 
(especially some particulars on the Watkins Copy-Cat).
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