[HAM] The beauty of Tonewheels - an alternate view

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At 09:04 PM 2/1/2007, Richard Horton wrote:
>While we are on this subject.....I ask this question on another list and got
>no response, so I'll try again here: I was looking up at the tone wheels
>spinning away in place on a running L-100 (with the generator that is rail
>mounted with a removable heavy felt bottom so you can lay on the floor and
>look up and watch the whole thing). The tone wheels themselves wander side
>to side slightly on their shafts as they spin in front of the magnet point,
>sometime regularly, sometimes randomly. This must introduce some random
>variation in the tones or harmonics, no? Has this been discussed here
>before?

I'm curious is all-- by "side to side" do you mean perpendicular to the 
shaft? Or side-to-side looking at the organ from the front or back?