Synth Wizards Episode 7: Syntars, Keytars & Orphicas

Published on Jun 1, 2019 Syntaur

"Keyboardists have wanted to go portable for way longer than you might have thought! Come along with Syntaur’s Sam Mims as he chases the fascinating history of the keytar, or strap-on synthesizer, and talks to some of the people who made these inventions happen. And watch the Syntaur crew bring a smashed Roland keytar back to life!"

Synth Wizards 7 Behind the Scenes: Strawberry Fields on Tubon/Mellotron

Published on Jun 1, 2019 Syntaur

"Sam and Eddie show you how the Strawberry Fields Forever audio for Synth Wizards Episode 7 was created."

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Note the Moog Liberation contains the guts of the Realistic MG-1 made by Moog for Radio Shack.

Joh Mustad Tubon Vintage Synthesizer ca 1966 SN 00741

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via this auction

"Joh Mustad AB Tubon Rare Vintage Synthesizer.

Cigar shaped design by Bengt Olof Ingemar Brodin.

Produced in Sweden ca 1966."

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First Techno (Kraftwerk 1970)

Published on Apr 27, 2015 PhineasFreakers

Enjoy. BTW, anyone remember what the tube keyboard instrument was called? Tube something or other.

"This concert at the "carussel of the youth" from 1970 is the earliest existing concert video of these electronic pioneers. The band was just created this year and could be seen in the original setup.

Kraftwerk Rockpalast 1970 From the Rockpalast Archive
by "Henry Owings" (thanks man)"

And three years later:

Kraftwerk mit "Tanzmusik" 1973 im ZDF-aspekte-Studio

Published on Jan 21, 2015 Mike Martin

"Fundstück: aspekte stellte 1973 'neue deutsche Musikgruppen' vor - hier einer der ersten Fernsehauftritte von Kraftwerk mit 'Tanzmusik'."

Kraftwerk Rockpalast 1970

Published on Mar 26, 2014

Update: looks like the video was pulled. You can now find it here with a second video.

Kraftwerk with a Tubon

From the Rockpalast Archive
Mixed Media Show
Soest, Germany
Winter 1970

0. Intro
1. Stratovarius
2. Ruckzuck
3. Heavy Metal Kids
4. Improvisation 1

via Pea Hicks on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

TUBON very rare electric keyboard

via this auction

"One of the rarest electric keyboards out there, the Tubon was manufactured in 1966 by Joh Mustad AB, in Gothenburg, Sweden. Only a small number were produced; fewer still survive.

Imagine a small, strap-on combo organ. The Tubon's sounds are straight out of Sixties organ-driven pop: contrabass, saxophone, electric bass, woodwind. A strong vibrato and adjacent volume control give on-board sound shaping options. Two nine-volt batteries, housed at one end of the tube, provide power. At the other end is a compartment where the strap can be stored.

Paul McCartney had a Tubon, though it probably was not used on record. Kraftwerk did use one, along with countless Swedish and Finnish bands...

Output is from a din connector. Included with this Tubon will be a cable with a din plug on one end and a 1/4" plug on the other. You can change the din to a 1/4" female connector if you like; I chose to leave it with the din, to keep it original."

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Playing the Joh Mustad AB Tubon

YouTube via lesingemonotone — April 27, 2010 — "Testing a out a newly restored Tubon, a swedish built bass-synthesizer manufactured in the late 60ies by Joh Mustad AB in Gothenburg. The international patent was filed 1967 making it one of the first keytars in the world."

The Tubon

you might recognize the Tubmon from this post and this post.

These images are from Musikmuseet where you'll find more along with a PDF of the manual.

via Frederic in the comments of this post.

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EXTREMELY RARE 1960S TUBON ELECTRONIC ORGAN/SYNTHESIZER

SN 00807 via this auction

"It was made in 1966 by joh mustad ab of sweden. It was one of the first synthesyzer/electronic bass organ type instruments of its kind.... It is a very strange looking instrument its long and tube shaped with a keyboard and buttons and knobs on the other end. It measures about 32" long and is about 5" around and comes in its original case and has its original strap. It ran off three batteries and has a place to plug it into a amp or speaker."

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Bergman Tubon & Klavinette

Update via the comments: Some nice pics.

The Tubon came up on the AH list. It's a sort of tube shaped keytar manufactured in 1966 with contrabass, saxaphone, electric bass and woodwind. No one had any information or pictures on it until the following popped up from Mikael Lindgren. The Klavinette is also featured.

Here's a picture of the Bergman Tubon and the Klavinette organ:

"As a matter of fact, the "Tubon" was made in Sweden starting in 1966 by a company named Joh Mustad AB. This early strap-on keyboard is shaped like an oblong tube with a 2 1/2 octave keyboard at one end and controls for the voicings (Contrabass, Saxophone, electric bass, woodwind) at the other end. It ran on batteries and came with a built-in speaker.

Joh Mustad AB were probably most known for the Bergman Klavitron (circa 1964), a small 2-manual spinet organ utilizing vacuum-tube technology. They also came out with a couple of cool portable tube-organs like the Bergman Klavitron and Klavinette, in 1965 and 1966 respectively.

P.S. the Tubon, the Klavitron and the Klavinette were used by numerous Swedish (and Finnish) rock & pop acts during the mid to late sixties."

Update via Frederic in the comments: "Check out the tubon up close! The first keytar?"

Update via Anonymous in the comments: "http://vstforum.clubcubase.net/viewtopic.php?t=17787"

Be sure to see the comments below for more updates.

[Note: this post originally linked to http://hem.bredband.net/linmik/Bergman_Tubon_&_Klavinette.jpg which appears to no longer be on line]