The Trautonium - 1930s tube synthesizer

Pressure-sensitive ribbon-controller subharmonic oscillator vacuum tube synthesizer dating back to 1929. “Tongues” can be used for fixed pitches.

I’ve read a lot about early electronic instruments but I think this was new to me. Heard about it from a link someone posted in a Facebook discussion about Hindemith:

Custom-built Trautoniums, including a CV/gate model for use with modular synths:

https://www.trautoniks.de/com/product.html

Detailed technical discussion:

http://www.doepfer.de/traut/traut_e.htm

Doepfer Eurorack A-113 subharmonic generator:

http://www.doepfer.de/a113.htm

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Cool! Particularly the acoustic-instrument like sounds in the Hindemeth piece are great!

Always goosebumps about that chord progression… (first video)

My last travel…This one is in Brussels - MIM
Staring… amazed

Berlin 05/2018

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What’s that first one? Its manual looks like separate metal pads rather than the usual long ribbon.

Unfortunately I only have that photo…
It just seems its missing the “wire”
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/dawn-of-electronics/how-the-trautonium-found-favor-with-nazis-and-gave-hitchcocks-emthe-birdsem-its-distinctive-screech

edit: no info on http://www.mim.be/en also…

And don’t forget the wonderful performance at Superbooth last year:

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Thanks for sharing this. Interesting controller design. And interesting that Telefunken manufactured a version for the consumer market.