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Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Variphon

Analog Industries has a post up on the Variphon. I haven't seen one of these before. According to the Variphon site, the instrument appears to be an anolog synth with a low pass, high pass and band pass filter with pulse wave oscillators. Title link takes you to the site with more info, shots and samples.



"The Variophon is a monophonical electronical musical wind instrument, invented by Jobst Peter Fricke, Wolfgang Voigt and Jürgen Schmitz at 1975 at the Acoustical Department of the Musicological Institute of the University of Cologne. At the beginning it has been built up by the firm Ernest Martin KG."

Update via Clifford in the comments: "Talk Talk (Mark Hollis) used this extensively on the fantastic albums "Spirit Of Eden" and "Laughing Stock"- they said they were terribly unreliable- solo at 4min on After The Flood is a Variphon in all it's malfuntioning glory- wish I could buy one!"
Posted by matrix at 12/20/2005 09:01:00 AM

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  1. Clifford3/30/08, 1:06 PM

    Talk Talk (Mark Hollis) used this extensively on the fantastic albums "Spirit Of Eden" and "Laughing Stock"- they said they were terribly unreliable- solo at 4min on After The Flood is a Variphon in all it's malfuntioning glory- wish I could buy one!

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