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Twin Solid State Musical Tesla Coils In Concert

Posted December 07, 2007 10:03 AM

From Science Fiction in the News:

Did you know that Tesla coils could be made to produce music? Musical Tesla coils? It's starting to look a little like Christmas. These monsters of music stand a full seven feet tall and can output 12 feet of forked lightning (spark-wise). The two coils are placed eighteen feet apart; they are controlled over a fiber optic link by a laptop computer. These coils produce well over 110 dB of sound; they were constructed by Steve Ward and Jeff Larson.

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12/08/2007 8:17 AM

Excellent !

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12/09/2007 6:34 AM

Interesting video, although my Internet connection is too slow to get the full benefit of the video.

Tune as "recognisable" but tonal quality needs improvement.

Mind you, the first electrostatic speakers had a similar tonal fault......

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