Original Raymond Scott Clavivox Brochure from the 60s

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"This is your chance to own this vintage Clavivox Brochure with all the information about the vintage Raymond Scott Clavivox . This brochure has an original stamp of Thomas L Rhea on it. This brochure contains 2 pages.

This is a must-have for any vintage synthesizer collector as these are getting very hard/impossible to find these days.

This brochure has no highlighting or underlining . This catalog is in very good condition , see the picture's for more detail."

Update: I originally tagged this as from the 70s. Make that the 60s, via @_Raymond_Scott of the Raymond Scott Archives (check out the Raymond Scott timeline here):

".Circa late-1960s"

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Raymond Scott Archives Remembers Bob Moog

"Of course Bob Moog was a brilliant engineer and circuitry expert, but he was also among the most modest and unpretentious people we've met. We're thrilled that through the efforts of his daughter, Michelle Moog-Koussa, her dad is receiving the recognition he deserves. He was also an Advisory Board member of The Raymond Scott Archives, and was always a great supporter of RS, and of all our efforts. Here are Moog's memories of his old friend and colleague"

Don't miss this one. It's a really nice look back on some of the history and influences of Bob Moog directly from the man himself. Bob Moog on seeing Raymond Scott's workplace for the first time: "So there my father and I were with our mouths hanging open! It looked like heaven to me. My father was an electrical engineer who worked for Consolidated Edison, and I was a twenty year-old electronics nerd who found himself on the track to becoming an engineer... Raymond then brought us into the big room downstairs where he had music synthesis equipment."

via Jeff E. Winner on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

Raymond Scott Centennial Vinyl Figurine & CD Set

Available at raymondscott.com

via Boing Boing, via Jeff of http://raymondscott.blogspot.com/ in the comments of this post.

Note Press Pop also make the Bob Moog doll.

The small keyboard is Raymond Scott's Clavixox. The larger instrument is Raymond Scott's Electronium, video of it directly below (previously here).


Raymond Scott's Electronium

YouTube via DrRek

"As it remains in non working order in the Basement of Mark Motherbaugh's Mutato Music Offices in Hollywood, CA courtesy of http://absurdity.biz's circuit bending documentary"
Be sure to click on the labels at the bottom of this post for more. There are a lot of nuggets in there.

Raymond Scott Clavivox Cake

Clavivox cake by Sarah Albu, Montreal via the Raymond Scott blog. Also check out the Official Raymond Scott site for the 100th Centennial of Raymond Scott. There are some great quotes from various musicians and synthheads including Bob Moog.

"Raymond Scott was definitely in the forefront of developing electronic music technology, and in the forefront of using it commercially as a-musician." - Bob Moog, inventor of Moog synthesizers

Raymond Scott 100

Science Reporting has an excellent post up on Raymond Scott. The following are a few excerpts (be sure to check out the full post on Science Reporting).

"In 1942, he became Music Director for CBS Radio and made history by hiring black musicians. His CBS band was the first racially integrated band for radio. In 1946, he founded Manhattan Research Inc, "the world's most extensive facility for the creation of Electronic Music and Musique Concrete." It was the first electronic music studio...

In 1949, Raymond said, 'Perhaps within the next hundred years, science will perfect a process of thought transference from composer to listener. The composer will sit alone on the concert stage and merely think his idealized conception of his music. Instead of recordings of actual music sound, recordings will carry the brainwaves of the composer directly to the mind of the listener.'

By the mid-50's his studio began to look (according to friends such as Robert Moog) like a science fiction set. Over the years, Raymond invented numerous electronic musical instruments including the Clavivox and the Electronium.

Robert Moog credits Raymond as an important influence on the invention of the Moog Synthesizer. In 1962 and 1963, Raymond released Soothing Sounds for Baby. It was entirely electronic music he composed as an "aural toy" for children. While it was a commercial failure at the time, some now regard it as a strong pre-cursor to ambient music (over a decade before Brian Eno's recordings)."