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Details (Google translated from German):
"The Hohner Electronium pi is an old key board from the year 1950 that the concept almost resembles a Clavioline. The basic sound of both instruments is however very different, since the tone generator of the Electronium pi produces a saw tooth wave shape, while it is with the Clavioline a square wave form. Roughly expenditure-press sounds the Elektronium pi rather like a trumpet and the Clavioline rather like a clarinet. The equipment is developed complete in tube technology and offers from tubes admitted sound. One can call these only extremely alive, warmly and nobly. It is one of the instruments, with which the well-known composer Karl Heinz stick living invented and justified the electronic music in the year 1954 in Cologne Studio of the WDR."
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"Karl Heinz stick living" = Karl Heinz Stockhausen = avangard composer in the sixties till today.
ReplyDeleteIt should be noted that Stockhausen himself didn't actually use the electronium...it was played (and considerably modified) by Harald Boje, who played in Stockhausen's ensemble formations from the mid-60s through the mid-70s. Despite the fact that the instrument isn't exactly a synthesizer, Boje managed to wrangle some extraordinarily synth-like sounds and textures out of it.
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