MATRIXSYNTH

EMS Synthi A

flickr by basilb.

Title link takes you to more synth shots.

Update via one of the anonymous in the comments:
"This one is also on the Hinton modification page: link1, link2.
It belonged to a band called Zorch."

Synapse

flickr by tvvork.

Title link takes you to more cover shots in the set.

BTW, you can download issues of Synapse magazine off of the Cynthia website under the goodies section.

Museum of Techno Halloween Video

Title link takes you to the video on the Novation Xio Synth site, or watch it teeny tiny here.

flickr by djvartan

Gleeman Pentaphonic - Clear

Gergo Palatinszky Synth

Ginos Buchla

Title link takes you to the set.

PNW06: John Bowen Compares Prophets

John and Stephen play with a Creamware ASB Pro-12 and Prophet 5 at this year's Pacific Northwest Synthesizer Meeting.

PNW06: Stephen Talks About his Custom Wood Cased Pro One

Stephen Talks About his Doepfer Ribbon Controller

Two more via this year's Pacific Northwest Synthesizer Meeting. You can see the Prophet T8 minus keys that Stephen refers to here. You can find Stephen's custom woodwork on Synthwood.

PNW06: David Skinner Demos his Synthesizers.com Modular

Two more of David Skinner and his Synthesizers.com modular at this year's Pacific Nortwhest Synthesizer Meeting. Click here for two previous posts.

Ondioline

Click here for shots pulled via this auction.

via Dave.

More on the Ondioline on 120 Years.

Via wikipedia: "The Ondioline was a vacuum tube-powered keyboard instrument, invented by Georges Jenny, which was a forerunner of today's synthesizers.

The Ondioline was capable of creating a wide variety of sounds. Its keyboard had a unique feature: it was suspended on special springs which made it possible to introduce a natural vibrato if the player moved the keyboard from side to side with their playing hand. The result was an almost human-like vibrato that lent a wide range of expression to the Ondioline. The keyboard was also pressure-sensitive, and the instrument had a knee volume lever.

Jean-Jacques Perrey first acquired an Ondioline in the mid-1950s [1], and used it on all his older albums from the late 1960's."

You might recognize the name Jean-Jacques Perrey from these posts (you can see him playing it in the first post). I saw him play live with Dana Countryman and he had the Ondioline with him. It sounded just like a theremin. Jean-Jacques Perrey stated that the Ondioline was his favorite instrument.

Stupid Trivia

So in the comments of this post on Synrise, dan s. calls out that Synrise has had the same site design since 1999. It occured to me that I might actually hold the record for the synth site with the oldest original design! I know, exciting stuff. The original Matrixsynth, which is still up, btw, has had the same exact crappy design since Oct. 1997, when I originally put it up. If anyone knows of another synth site with an older design that is still up, feel free to comment. And yes, the blog link is new, but the overall site really has been the same since day one minus adding and updating links. Appropriate title, huh?