Saturday, December 31, 2022
The Tale of The Ondioline: Music's Oldest Synthesizer?
video upload by The Lemon Master
0:00 Intro
1:21 Design
5:50 History
7:46 Rise
10:39 Downfall
12:47 Revival?
14:24 Outro
Note the first "synth" is debatable. The Telharmonium (1897), Ondes-Martenot (1928), Mixturtrautonium (1936), Novachord (1939), amongst others predated it. The Theremin, although not a keyboard instrument, but the inspiration if not the basis for Bob Moog's creations arrived in 1921. For a timeline of electronic instruments see https://120years.net, and for more synth centric, as we know them, see The First Synth to.....
For reverything Ondioline see https://ondioline.com
And related posts:
Jean Jacques Perrey & Dana Countryman - The Good Old Days
New Website Dedicated to the Ondioline
Jean-Jacques Perrey et son Ondioline (pics of my copy here)
And of course, see the Ondioline label for additional posts.
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