Hi Friends!
Schematic / simulation in "Falstad online simulator":
One can find it, for example, in classic stylophone schematic (the part creating low-frequency oscillations for "vibratto" effect).
I teach it to my pupils for years probably and I always thought I less or more understood what is happening inside - each filter stage gives shift in phase and hence when amplifying feedback is added there happen harmonic oscillations.
However on the schematic given above I added 4 scopes over the length of the filter (potentials at the points A, B, C, D according to labels - here A and B are potentials at points between capacitors, C is at the base and D at collector) - I suddenly found that intermediate voltages are not pretty harmonic! They could be distorted by the current drawn into transistor base though. And I'm not sure the output is exactly sine now. Though probably it is a matter of adding some resistor to improve input impedance of transistor cascade?
Regretfully I can't find any thorough explanation of the schematic (probably due to keywords being too general and I don't know if this design has fancy proper name). So I would be grateful either for links or for verbal clarifications.