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At 12:48 PM 5/27/2003, Doug Cox wrote: >This is an interesting point, to me, only a novice when it comes to the >history of looping. > >Chapter 3 seems to indicate that Terry Riley used a device that (someone) >was already calling an "Echoplex" in the very early 60s, and that in 1963 >he described the device to a French technician, who subsequently >reproduced it with tape decks. Riley then called this device a "time-lag >accumulator", and used it on various recordings from that point. > >Is that accurate? Not questioning your research, just trying to confirm >whether your research shows that an "Echoplex" device existed first. Is >this the thing that Les Paul is sometimes credited with? What Echoplex >existed in the early 60's, that Terry Riley described... and who named it >"Echoplex"? Mike Battle made his first Echoplex tape delay prototypes in 1963, according to this post: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=52nksm%24aqu%40casaba.srv.cs.cmu.edu I would guess production would have started sometime later, so the dates don't appear to match up quite right. Les Paul's thing was the Les Paulverizer. kim ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@loopers-delight.com | http://www.loopers-delight.com