Home › Words › F › frippertronicsfrippertronicsfrippertronics means A system consisting of two reel-to-reel tape recorders linked to each other so that sounds can be mixed with a delay.EtymologyFrom Fripp + -tronics, named after its inventor Robert Fripp (1946–); coined by Joanna Walton, Fripp's poet girlfriend in the late 1970s.nounA system consisting of two reel-to-reel tape recorders linked to each other so that sounds can be mixed with a delay.e.g.“It was, its maker mused, intended to be the first installment of a trilogy of records, each one dedicated to a different aspect of Frippertronics.” — 2021, Dave Thompson, I Feel Love: Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, and How They Reinvented Music, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 141:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).