VEMIA Auction Ends This Coming Saturday

http://www.spheremusic.com/ You can find the auction room here.
Click on the VEMIA label below for 50 items archived here.

via Peter Forest on AH:
"The 26th VEMIA auction ends on Saturday. You can now click directly on links without having to register if you just want to look at pics. (Just go down each details page & click 'image'.)
Big Briar Touchplate
Steiner Masters Touch
PPG 1002 analogue synth
Sherman Quad Modular Filterbank
L.L. Electronics Rozzbox 1
Persephone Ribbon Controller
Korg MS20
Studio Electronics SE1
Roland Jupiter 8
Roland OP-8
Roland MPU-101
More to come.
A footnote: I guess you could say we are a cross between eBay and a dealer. 10% buyer's premium, possibly packing charges on very cheap, large and/or difficult things, but much more security than eBay, and consolidated shipments wherever possible.
Based in England, but sending worldwide. Priced in pounds, so very good for dollar, Euro and yen people right now. Peter Forrest"

PPG 1002 analogue monosynth - VEMIA

via this VEMIA auction

"Superb early rare interesting analogue monosynth in excellent condition. I can't imagine there is a much better example of this synth in the world. The CV in is a strange non-linear design, but tuning on its own keyboard is perfect. Thoroughly tested by Lucid Sound, some screws replaced, the whole instrument serviced and calibrated where necessary. It is in excellent cosmetic condition, with the panel almost faultless, and all knobs in original condition. One of the neat (EMS-like) 'magic eye' buttons has lost its iris, so that the orange bit doesn't disappear when it is switched off. The solid wood endcheeks show signs of its age, but look fine, and somehow right. The keyboard is level and in first-class condition. There is a bit of paint scraping on the back panel, visible in the photo, and the protective rubber shielding round the mains lead is slightly broken, and has been strengthened with gaffa tape. The mains lead itself is perfect and completely safe. Beautiful."

PPG 1002 Analogue Monosynth - VEMIA

"Superb early rare interesting analogue monosynth in excellent condition. I can't imagine there is a much better example of this synth in the world. The CV in is a strange non-linear design, but tuning on its own keyboard is perfect. Thoroughly tested by Lucid Sound, some screws replaced, the whole instrument serviced and calibrated where necessary. It is in excellent cosmetic condition, with the panel almost faultless, and all knobs in original condition. One of the neat (EMS-like) 'magic eye' buttons has lost its iris, so that the orange bit doesn't disappear when it is switched off. The solid wood endcheeks show signs of its age, but look fine, and somehow right. The keyboard is level and in first-class condition. There is a bit of paint scraping on the back panel, visible in the photo. Beautiful."
VEMIA - Click on Auctions, Search, and search for 5743.

VEMIA Update

Via Peter Forrest:

"Interesting analogue items in the VEMIA auction at www.spheremusic.com ending on this coming Saturday, (April 12) include ARP 2500, Quadra, Solina String Synthesizer, Cavagnolo Exagone XM64, CRB Computer Band 2000, Crumar Spirit s/n 15, Digisound, Doepfer, Elka Synthex, EML 200, EMS Logik, Dequencer, Hi Fli, Vocoder 2000, ETI 4600, Fender Rhodes Mk I, Freeman String Symphonizer, unopened Hohner Clavinet, Drumfire DF500, Kenton Mono/Poly kit, Korg MS02, 03, 50, SQ-10, Trident II, VC-10; two Mellotrons (one in Canada), MasterRoom reverbs, R A Moog CEMS (the biggest custom design he ever did?), Minimoogs, Minitmoog, Sonic Six, three touchplates; Matrix 12 with Xpander front panel, OB8, OBMx, OSCar, Syntars, PPG 1002, 350, 360, 390; Rhodes Chroma, Prophet T8, Simmons SDSVs, Spectral Audio ProTones, Steiner Masters Touch, SE MIDIMini and MIDIMoog, Stramp Synchanger II, dotcom stuff, early Curetronic, Adrian Utley's theremin, Estradin 230, GTC Telefonfilter, Rozzbox, Persephone Deluxe, Springer 1950s time-stretcher, Vox Jaguar (Canada), Yamaha SS30, and plenty more besides. Some prices are high, some very high; some are surprisingly low. You can always just look at any pictures that interest you."

Pictured here is the MOOG Touchplate prototype #1.
"A fantastic and rare example of Bob Moog's own handiwork, serial number TP010. When he started back into music manufacture in the early eighties, the model 300 touch-plate was one of his first products. This is the prototype Synton received from Bob for demonstration purposes. It is extremely Moog-like in its characteristics. It has its own inbuilt power transformer, and the outputs are available on six 1/4in jack sockets, with good ol' Moog knobs for controlling sensitivity. It has a Synton sticker on the back, saying 'TOUCH PLATE USA'. Synton and Moog had a close relationship in the 80s, with reciprocal import/export. It is untested. This is from the collection amassed by Felix Visser, former head of Synton. All items were destined for a national technology museum project, many years in the planning, but finally cancelled by politicians and planners. They have mostly been stored unused for a number of years. Any items marked untested are untested, are sold as is, and could be fine or could need work. Wherever we have more information (good or bad news) it is mentioned in the item description."

PPG 1020 - VEMIA

"Fascinating vintage synth, very rare, and certainly at the time considered an improvement on the earlier all-analogue 1002. But not perfect:- Here are Lucid's notes (they decided that with Moog modulars and Minimoogs to deal with they couldn't guarantee to get this mended in anywhere near quick enough time). 1. The keyboard decoding is not working correctly 2. The keyboard output voltage is FM modulated by some digital noise. However, raising the glide control stops this. In its defence: 3. The bottom key mechanism is broken but the key can still be played. 4. The filter, oscillators, LFO, envelopes and noise all work. 5. It makes an effective weird sound FX generator just as it is. 6. All CMOS decode stuff so probably fixable. So if you have access to technical knowhow, you could turn this into more than just a creator of unusual sounds."
Note the Roland Jupiter-6 with custom fire paint job in the background. Click the image for a larger shot.
You can find this one on VEMIA - Click on Auctions, Search, and search for 5855 or PPG for more.

Tangerine Dream Live on Barock 3 in 1976 on YouTube

via Frederic

Update via the comments:
REgardging the synth in the opening shot above the mellotron.
"The synth is a PPG monosynth - a 1002 or 1020 I think. There was a post on this blog about it a few months ago.

Lots more vintage TD on Youtube, it all seems to be from the same German TV program. Just search for 'Tangerine Dream Signale'."

PPG 1020/1002 analog Synthesizer on Sequencer.de

via Sequencer.de

Early PPG Mono Synth

Title link takes you to shots pulled from this auction. Notes from the auction below, in German and then translated to "English." Gotta love the translation tools. : )



Update via Yves in the comments:
"You will find some related information on this site dedicated to PPG: http://www.ppg.synth.net/1002_20/" Note the retractable patch chords in the shot above vs. the shots on the PPG site.

"sehr gut erhaltener analoger mono Synthesizer von PPG. Nach verschiedenen Fachauskünften handelt es sich um ein frühes modell des 1002 (located in Hamburg, Germany PPG stood for Palm Productions GmbH. Wolfgang Palm was the owner and chief designer at PPG. Palm started making synthesizers around 1975 and during these early days he became associated with members of the German proto-space-music band,... Other early instruments included the PPG 1002, which Palm called "the first programmable synthesizer")... das gerät ist funktionsfähig und kann auch vorort ausprobiert werden. EbayGebühren und Versand übernimmt der Käufer. Das Gerät kann auch abgeholt werden. ACHTUNG: Das Gerät bekommt Strom und gibt Töne von sich. Da ich nicht weiß, wie es funktioniert, kann ich keine einwandfrei Funkion garantieren!"

"very well received similar mono Synthesizer of PPG. after different specialized information concerns it an early model of the 1002 (located in Hamburg, Germany PPG stood for Palm Productions GmbH Wolfgang Palm which the owner and chief for designer RK PPG. Palm started making synthesizers around 1975 and during thesis early days he became associated with members OF the German proto space music bound... OTHER early instrument included the PPG 1002, which Palm called "the roofridge programmable more synthesizer")... that turns out is functional and can also for suburb be tried out. EbayGebuehren and dispatch takes over the buyer. The equipment can be also fetched. NOTE: The equipment gets river and gives tones of itself. Since I do not know, how it functions, I cannot guarantee perfectly to Funkion!"

CEM - Center for Electronic Music

"The Centre for Electronic Music in Amsterdam, is the oldest institute for electronic-and electro-acoustic music and research in the Netherlands.
Founded in 1957 (on the remains of a psycho-acoustic research laboratory of Philips), the CEM has become a modern, fully equipped recording-studio, where composers, musicians and researchers can work in an informal, non-commercial atmosphere. "

Synthesizers:

ARP 2500 synthesizer inc. sequencer
ARP 2600
Serge modular synthesizer
EMS VCS3
EMS Synthi A
EMS Synthi AKS
PPG 1002 + PPG 313/314 modular sequencer/ switch
Analogue Solutions AS8899 modular drumsynthesizer
Akai AX73
Yamaha TX81Z
kawai k4 (x2)

Samplers:

Akai S2000
Dynacord AKS