Telharmonium

"An early electromechanical instrument was the Telharmonium or Teleharmonium (also known as the Dynamophone), developed by Thaddeus Cahill in 1897. The Telharmonium was intended to be listened to using telephone receivers.

Like the later Hammond organ, the Telharmonium used tonewheels to generate musical sounds as electrical signals by additive synthesis. An authoritative history of the Telharmonium is 'Magical Music from the Telharmonium' by Reynold Weidenaar, Scarecrow Press, 1995."

Title link takes you to more info on wikipedia. I ran into the image here and realized I hadn't put a post up on the teleharmonium yet..

Old Skool synth's

flickr by Maximum Mitch.

Anyone know what the white box is?

Nice Axe

flickr by delimade.

Musicmesse via Sequencer.de

More great shots are up on sequencer.de. Title link takes you to them.

For the archives:
Solaris Shots
Messepics THU 2007
Verstaerker Pics from Musikmesse
Frankfurt MusikMesse 2007 - Pics 2
MESSEPICS Part 1 (WED 2007 out of 1.3 GB)

Waldorf Stromberg pictured

Roland Jupiter-6

Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction. Note the auction ended and it went for $2345. via JZ.

Aries Modular Synthesizer

Two new YouTubes via 123synthland.

tr-606 + circuit bend = SYNC

Two YouTubes via cretin4321.

MIDI Performance Controllers

I finally got around to reading this post in detail. Yes guys, sometimes I don't even have time to read my own posts. :( Funny thing is I read about the arpeggiator I'm about to reference on SoNiCbRaT who linked to my post. Anyway, I just realized the Akai MPK49 has a built in arpeggiator. I currently have an E-Mu Xboard49. I absolutely love the key action, size and the knobs. The other day I was thinking how if it only had a built in arpeggiator, sequencer and more, it would be perfect. Why should a MIDI controller be limited to just the tactile? It would also be obviously cool if you could save your sequences and patterns. What else would you like to see in a MIDI controller? I think my list would start with the following:

- Arpeggiator as powerful as the Oberheim Cyclone and/or Techno Toys ARP-X8 with the ability to mute steps like the MicroKorg.
- Multi-track, 16 step, step sequencer. A minimum of 16 tracks - one for each MIDI channel and or different CCs.
- Per above, the sequencer would definitely need to support CCs and not just notes.
- Multi-track phrase sequencer/looper - same number of tracks as above

What else?

nord leading

flickr by jeffrey romeo.

Yamaha CS60

No title link, just the shot via this auction. Click the image for the full effect.

Update: as always check out the comments directly below these posts for what others have to say. You never know what you might find. Always be careful and always use good judgment. I'm just grabbing the info and shots.