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Saturday, July 5, 2014

A Touch Sensitive Organ

Exhibition about Hugh Le Caine at the Canada S...
Exhibition about Hugh Le Caine at the Canada Science and Technology Museum (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Special Purpose Tape Recorder (exhibited as in...
Special Purpose Tape Recorder (exhibited as in the Canada Science and Technology Museum) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: National Research Council of Canada, ...
English: National Research Council of Canada, Institute for Research in Construction, Mississippi Mills, Ontario Research Facility, National Fire Laboratory (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
A"Touch Sensitive Organ", was the name of Hugh Le Caine's electronic synthesizer. The NRC National Research Council of Canada refused that description, but accepted the name "Sackbut" instead.

Le Caine was also inventor of the polyphonic synthesizer and and another device called, Sonde, among many others. Mostly in the 1960's and 1970's.


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