"When I was a child I loved music and wanted to play the piano. However, my family had no money to buy such an expensive instrument. As my father was an electronic hobbist, he started to build this electronic organ from scratch. It started with a simple one-transistor oscilator that produces a sawtooth like waveform, and just replicated such oscilator as many times as the keys he wanted. So this beauty has full polyphony, and each note has to be independently tuned by turning small trimpots. My grandfather also worked on the instrument shaping the keys and building the case, which are made of wood." You can find the rest of the story including images on Marcelo Johann's
This is my Father's Synth!. via vito mf
"When I was a child I loved music and wanted to play the piano. However, my family had no money to buy such an expensive instrument. As my father was an electronic hobbist, he started to build this electronic organ from scratch. It started with a simple one-transistor oscilator that produces a sawtooth like waveform, and just replicated such oscilator as many times as the keys he wanted. So this beauty has full polyphony, and each note has to be independently tuned by turning small trimpots. My grandfather also worked on the instrument shaping the keys and building the case, which are made of wood." You can find the rest of the story including images on Marcelo Johann's This is my Father's Synth!. via vito mf
That's determination.
ReplyDeleteVery cool, but also intensely heartbreaking. Any family with a child who really wants to play an instrument should be able to get one.
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