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The ‘Trautonium’ Dr Freidrich Trautwein. Germany, 1930
Dr Freidrich Adolf Trautwein (b Würzburg 1888, Germany; d Düsseldorf 1956) The Trautonium was an important electronic musical instrument developed by the electrical engineer Freidrich Trautwein in...
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the ‘Warbo Formant Orgel’, Harald Bode & Christian Warnke, Germany, 1937
The Warbo Formant Orgel Harald Bode’s first commercial design was the wonderfully named ” Warbo Formant Orgel” built while at the Heinrich-Hertz Institut für Schwingungsforschung at the Technische...
View ArticleThe ‘Electronde’ Martin Taubman, Germany, 1927
The Electronde was a development of Lev Termen’s Thereminvox by the Frankfurt inventor Martin Taubman. Taubman added a hand held switch for adding staccato envelope and a foot pedal for volume...
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The ‘Mixturtrautonium’ Oskar Sala, Germany, 1936
Oskar Sala’s mixturtrautonium Later developments of Freidrich Trautwein’s original Trautonium were continued by the Trautonium virtuoso and composer Oskar Sala. In 1936, Sala christened his first...
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The ‘Subharchord’, Gerhard Steinke & Ernst Schreiber , Germany (DDR), 1960
The Subharchord at the Labor für Akustisch-Musikalische Grenzprobleme, Berlin Aldershof DDR in 1960 In the late 1950’s the East German government decided that it needed to develop an ability to produce...
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The Lipp Pianoline. Richard Lipp & Sohn, Germany, 1950
The Lipp Pianoline The Lipp Pianoline was a monophonic vacuum tube based keyboard instrument designed as an add-on for piano players. The Pianoline was part of a family of portable piano-attachment...
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The ‘Polychord’ Harald Bode, Germany, 1949
Bode’s Polychord III 1951 The Polychord Organ was Harald Bode’s first postwar design commissioned by the Bayerischer Rundfunk, Southern German Radio as an electronic organ for live radio broadcasts and...
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The ‘Ether Wave Violin’ or ‘Aetherwellengeige’ Erich Zitzmann-Zirini, Germany...
The ‘Ether Wave Violin’ or Aetherwellengeige shown here in a 1952 Film The ‘Aetherwellengeige’ was one of many instruments inspired by Leon Termen’s Theremin using the same heterodyning principle and...
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WDR Electronic Music Studio, Werner Meyer-Eppler, Robert Beyer & Herbert...
WDR Electronic Music Studio in 1966 During the 1950s and late 1960s before the advent of affordable electronic instruments, the only organisations that could afford the cost of the equipment and space...
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The ‘Fonosynth’. Paul Ketoff (Paolo Ketoff), Julian Strini & Gino Marinuzzi...
The ‘Fonosynth’ now at the Musical Instrument Museum, Munich, Germany. (photo: suonoelettronico.com) The Fonosynth was a large analogue valve and transistor based studio synthesiser designed and built...
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