Manual Typewriter Return Feeling

[Michael Eskin]

Anyone else feel like they're returing the carriage on a manual typewriter when using the air button to quickly bring in the bellows at the end of a phrase during a fast tune?

 

Just one of those strange thoughts while playing... Brings back fond memories from my childhood...

 

Michael

Edited December 17, 2004 by eskin

[Stephen Chambers]

a manual typewriter

Another subject of Wheatstone's inventions. (Though his designs have a tendancy to look more like small keyboard musical instruments !)

Edited December 17, 2004 by Stephen Chambers

[Stephen Chambers]

Anyone else feel like they're returing the carriage on a manual typewriter when using the air button to quickly bring in the bellows at the end of a phrase during a fast tune?

Maybe you could get a bell installed, activated by the air button, to complete the effect ?

 

(It has been done ! In the 1870's/'80's it was not uncommon to have bells on the bass end of melodeons, often activated by one of the bass buttons/levers, but I'm sure I have seen one where it was worked by the wind key.)