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SONICA by FRANK EVENTOFF SN 230 & 410
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SN 410 via this auction
SN 230 via this auction
"Travel back in time with this vintage Sonica. Yes, it is an unusual instrument. Around 1979-1980, only 650 were built. It's really a synthesizer that looks like a mini-guitar/sitar. The tone is something like a theremin. To hear the actual tone, there are various Youtube videos of folks playing one. This one is numbered 410. It's only about 20" long. It has its own little speaker and runs on a single nine volt battery. It has two octaves. All the notes on the headstock are major, but there is a half-step button on the body. The key is adjusted by a key knob. Yes, it is an odd duck! It is quite well made with a wood body (carved from Red Alder) and brass front, back and rear head stock plates (coated with baked enamel). The "fretboard" is also side with brass. This one is in good condition except for tears on the interior speaker grill cloth. The brass plating is tarnished, but I didn't dare scrub it with Brasso. It comes with the original (cute as the dickens) black chip board case with two piece of case candy. The mini six-page instructional booklet and warranty and the Sound Instruments warranty card (with the original 15 cent USPS "1980 Winter Olympics" speed skating stamp). It has an odd "in-tune" function: "Play the middle diamond... on the keyboard and turn the Key knob until the note sounds in tune with the music you're listening to." It also has an 1/8" output jack for a regular amplifier. Ol' Eric Clapton had one of these that was sold at his 2011 Bonhams auction for over $3,400. (Check it out online.) The inventor of the Sonica, Frank Eventoff, previously invented the popular Magical Musical Thing, and now runs Sensitronics, which is still on the cutting edge of experimental electronic musical instrument technology."
SN 410 via this auction
SN 230 via this auction
"Travel back in time with this vintage Sonica. Yes, it is an unusual instrument. Around 1979-1980, only 650 were built. It's really a synthesizer that looks like a mini-guitar/sitar. The tone is something like a theremin. To hear the actual tone, there are various Youtube videos of folks playing one. This one is numbered 410. It's only about 20" long. It has its own little speaker and runs on a single nine volt battery. It has two octaves. All the notes on the headstock are major, but there is a half-step button on the body. The key is adjusted by a key knob. Yes, it is an odd duck! It is quite well made with a wood body (carved from Red Alder) and brass front, back and rear head stock plates (coated with baked enamel). The "fretboard" is also side with brass. This one is in good condition except for tears on the interior speaker grill cloth. The brass plating is tarnished, but I didn't dare scrub it with Brasso. It comes with the original (cute as the dickens) black chip board case with two piece of case candy. The mini six-page instructional booklet and warranty and the Sound Instruments warranty card (with the original 15 cent USPS "1980 Winter Olympics" speed skating stamp). It has an odd "in-tune" function: "Play the middle diamond... on the keyboard and turn the Key knob until the note sounds in tune with the music you're listening to." It also has an 1/8" output jack for a regular amplifier. Ol' Eric Clapton had one of these that was sold at his 2011 Bonhams auction for over $3,400. (Check it out online.) The inventor of the Sonica, Frank Eventoff, previously invented the popular Magical Musical Thing, and now runs Sensitronics, which is still on the cutting edge of experimental electronic musical instrument technology."
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