LYRICON WIND SYNTHESIZER BRILHART TENOR SAXOPHONE

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"This rare wind controller looks like a soprano saxophone, but actually uses a modified tenor saxophone mouthpiece(Brilhart 9). The Lyricon II uses the Modeified Boehm System fingerings(fingering chart included in owner's manual)."

Update: video added at the end of this post.

Update2: The pics appear to be of a Lyricon I. The manual is for the Lyrican II. You can see a Lyricon II pictured here. Thanks goes to Ricko in the comments below for catching this.

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Computone Lyricon Wind Driver Controller

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1980 LYRICON WIND SYNTHESIZER DRIVER PRINT AD

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"Ad measures approx. 3.5"X 5.5" inches."

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Lyricon II Vintage Wind Synth

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COMPUTONE INC. LYRICON II Demo Video

THE SQUARE SOUND MAKING 2-8 / 伊東たけし / BEST SOUND Ⅱ

YouTube via ultimate1960 | July 06, 2008

"THE SQUARE SOUND MAKING 2-8 / 伊東たけし / BEST SOUND Ⅱ"


Pics via SV SYNTHESIS where you'll find more including audio and a write-up.

inside a Lyricaon.

Computone Wind Driver Lyricon-type controller

via this VEMIA auction

"Rare and special wind controller, owned from new by Bruno Spoerri, one of the pioneers of wind-controlled synthesis. Here's Bruno's comments from today:- 'I tried the Wind driver and it worked perfectly, as far as I can analyze it. It's 220 Volt (if I remember well, it can easily be converted to 110), and it comes with the original handbook and the original service handbook.' Cosmetically it looks nice. Even if you aren't a wind player, it's a great way to get wind-instrument-like expression into analogue synths. There's a manual online for more info during the auction at:" [link - mirrored here]

Bruno Spoerri - Synthophone and Gesture Based Synthesis

via Ricko:

"great videos on youtube of Bruno Spoerri (ex Lyricon and Synthi 100)"

Dancing Robots

YouTube via computerjazz
"A performance with 2 Robosapien Robots and David Rokeby's Very Nervous System, by Bruno Spoerri in 2009"

Synthophone 1997

"For Shirleigh and Bob, a performance with the Synthophone by Bruno Spoerri in 1997"

Very Nervous System Performance 1997

"Shake shuttle and blow: a Performance with David Rokeby's Very Nervous System by Bruno Spoerri, 1997"

Is That a Flute in My Pocket or am I Just Happy to Synthesize You?

ALL ABOUT YOU -THE SQUARE- (copy play on lyricon)

YouTube via yoshmeme. Sorry, one of the few times I had to hijack the title.
"リリコン吹いてみました。
Driverの基本的・一般的接続方法も説明してます。

lyricon blew.
It explains the method of Driver of a basic, general connection.

***equipment
Computone Windsinthesizer-Driver
Anarogue Systems RS Integrator Series-Modules & Doepfer A-100 Analog modular System. yoshmeme Edition. Signature "Yoshcon-1"
(AS→RS-90×2,RS-95,RS-100,RS-110,RS-180,R S-230,RS-170)
(Doepfer→A-100G-3U Base Frame + P.S. ,A180)
KORG SDD-1200
t.c.electronic m300"
Square Wave Found

Lyricon Wind Synth Driver

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"Hooks up to any CV CF and analogue synth like mini-moog, korg mono-poly, aro etc. Many options for breath control to filter/ dynamics and pitch bend included with reeds. This is the Lyricon Driver and needs an analogoue synth or cooper midi converter to sound"

Lyricon I wind synthesizer

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Computone Lyricon "The Driver" Vintage Wind Controller

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Update via Steve Greene in the comments:

"I own two of these...
In the 1970's my good friend (now deceased) Jay Lee was a consultant to Computone. Jay was way ahead of his time respect to analog synthesis composition and recording. If you google the album One Step More, an all-analog synthesis album I engineered and co-produced, you will quickly understand the breadth and depth of Jay's talents on the Emu modular synthesizer system.

Jay created some nice demo music for Computone with the Wind Driver, and was paid with inventory instead of money (I assume that the former was in much greater supply than the latter.)

In exchange for the many hundreds of hours I spent on his album, Jay paid me with 2 copies of The Driver. I shutter to think of the per-hour pay that figured out to be (like maybe $2) After receiving these, we used 1 of them to create (for it's day) some very realistic horn fanfares which became the signature music for BBC/Lionheart, a distribution deal done between BBC films and King World Entertainment. That little 15 second ditty was put on the end of every film the BBC exported for about 5 years.

Fast forward to today. I have revived one of the wind drivers. One of the reasons I believe the instrument ultimately failed was due to the tremendous back pressure created by lead hoses that were too small in inner diameter. I have replaced the hoses on 1 of The Drivers with a much thinner gauge cross section hose, resulting in a much more satisfying playing experience. Really too bad the Computone engineers couldn't figure that one out themselves. I am currently using it with a four-voice modular synthesizer made from 4 of the original EMU voice evaluation boards featuring the line of Curtiss Electromusic VCO VCA VCF and EG chips. SOUNDS GREAT!

If any of you are interested in the other wind driver, please contact me.

Cheers,
Steve Greene"

LYRICON WIND DRIVER SAX SYNTH

via this auction

THE SQUARE (T-SQUARE) - PRIME

YouTube via bassa5112. sent my way via Dave. synths come in at 2:09
Takeshi Ito (Lyricon (EWI) )
Masahiro Ando (g)
Hirotaka Izumi (key)
Toyoyuki Tanaka (b)
Tohru Hasebe (d)

Computone Lyricon Vintage Wind Synth Driver

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Jorrit Dijkstra's Lyricon Site, Cwejman and The Lyricons

Via Jorrit Dijkstra's Lyricon Site:
"The Lyricon is an analog electronic wind synthesizer made in the 1970's by Computone. These days a small amount of aficionados (such as me!) still own and play one of the three models...

My Lyricon Driver and the Cwejman S2 analog synthesizer. The S2 is an pre-patched analog synthesizer with CV inputs (NO MIDI INVOLVED!!), modified by Wowa Cwejman to work with the Driver. The Lyricon Driver's Wind output goes to extra added EG and VCA inputs on the Cwejman S2, the Lip output to the S2's Filter Cutoff, and the Bend Up (pitch) output to the S2's Tune input. But other connections are possible too."

You will find samples on the right pane of Jorrit's site.

Also check out The Lyricons where you'll find some resources including manuals, brochures and schematics as well as links to other Lyricon sites.

via Mr. Array.

The Lyricon link below will take you to some previous posts here on MATRIXSYNTH.

Lyricon II

Remember the Lyricon? Here's the Lyricon II. Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

MASA's Lyricon Analysis - Electronic Analog Flute

Title link takes you to the original site in Japanese. Here's a link to the Google translated version.

"“performing in the orchestra, was the idea like the electric flute which is audible sufficiently in the hole”, so is. It has started from the place where it tries probably to reproduce the performance method of the wooden bobbin musical instrument and the constitution of the timbre electrically. Being afterwards, appeared, become constitution of the general analog synthesizer VCO, VCF and VCA…. whichWith there is no similar point yet, changes harmonic overtone constitution and on the other hand, it can call with the point which does the sound making that it has been similar to [dorouba] of the organ. At this point in time as for [ririkon] of the first generation [ririkon] II which it mentions later, formation differs from [doraivua] completely."

via Rick. "A great Japanese page on the Lyricon, including the maddest circuit
board in the world: check out the circular array of photocells!"