vintage synthesizers

(Very) Early Electronic Instruments

When you think of 'early electronic instruments,' what period comes to mind?  European tape music of the 1950s?  Academic electronic…

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Some 70s electronic oddities

The Computone Lyricon is an analog synthesizer with a wind controller interface.  The horn-controller responded to three input parameters: the…

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Electronic Music Labs, INC, of Vernon CT

Electronic Music Laboratories, INC, was based in Vernon CT from 1968 through 1984.  The company's founders included Dale Blake, Norman…

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Vladamir Ussachevsky, electronic music pioneer and educator

"Does this qualify me for a prophet? Well, perhaps partially." Imagine if this dude had been your college music professor. …

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ARP Synthesizer Endorsers of the early 1970s

Stevie Wonder endorses the ARP 2600 in this early 70s advert Billy Preston likes his ARP Pro-Soloist Les McCann and…

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Univox-branded Synth+Drums

Billy Preston with a Univox Compac-Piano Univox (brief company history here) was a US company that marketed a huge range…

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1980 (via Music Emporium)

Download 25pp of excerpts from the 1980 'Music Emporium' mail-order catalog: synthesizers, keyboards; effects pedals; pro audio equipment: DOWNLOAD SYNTHS:Music_Emp_Keys_1980…

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Circa ’75

Download a twenty-three-page excerpt of the 1975 catalog from Music Emporium of Bethesda, Maryland (h.f. 'ME'): DOWNLOAD: Music_Emporium_1975_Catalog Products covered,…

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Not what a synthesizer can do, but what a man can do with a synthesizer.

There's a chance that Gold Coast Recorders will soon have a Crumar DS-2 in our synth collection/pile;  researching this Italo-Moog…

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ARP Synthesizers Full-Line Catalog 1977

Download the twenty-page c.1977 ARP Instruments, Inc. catalog: DOWNLOAD: ARP_1977_Catalog Products covered, with text, specs, and photos, include: ARP Avatar…

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