[Milsurplus] Dang Dang Battle Stations

[Albert LaFrance]

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Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Dang Dang Battle Stations

> 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.

One manufacturer of those carrillions is/was Schulmerich Electronics, in PA.
I saw one in the mid-80s, but it was probably 10-20 years old at the time.
I believe they're all-electronic now.

Albert LaFrance