[Milsurplus] Dang Dang Battle Stations

[gl4d21a at juno.com]

Ben:

I have no specific experience with the shipboard equipment, but I have seen several commercial "carrillions" (sp?)which had tiny xylophone type bars and little tiny hammers in them, and when only one was struck, it had a sound similar to the clang clang when amplified and distorted by an apparently overdriven amplifier.  Without the electronics, they were almost inaudible, and very tinny sounding, but through a string of 6SN7s and 6L6s they sounded like huge bells.  Maybe all the stages were running in class 'C'?  Anyway, given the technology of the time, I would strongly lean towards an electromechanical device, but anxiously await an old salt who knows exactly.

HTH,
George
W5VPQ

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