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Title: Vintage Synthesizers
Condition: New
Description: This new edition is the ultimate exploration of the upstart instruments ä and their unique analog growls and screams ä that paved the way over the last four decades for today's fast-paced electronic music world. Explores the development of the modern synthesizer from 1962 on with in-depth interviews with pioneering designers Bob Moog and Alan R. Pearlman of Moog Music and ARP Instruments fame. These and other designers reveal their initial ideas reflect on their hits and misses and discuss how star performers have used their creations. Histories of groundbreaking instruments examine modular analog & digital synths and samplers plus more unusual instruments like the Mellotron. Noted synthesist Keith Emerson and composer Wendy Carlos ( Switched-On Bach ) offer musical insights and performance techniques. Includes fully updated pricing and production info and more than 200 photos and a stunning color section.
Author: Mark Vail
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
EAN: 9780879306038
Edition: Second Edition
Format: Paperback
Genre: Music Dance & Theatre
ISBN: 9780879306038
ISBN-10: 0879306033
Item Height: 281mm
Item Length: 214mm
Item Weight: 966g
Item Width: 21mm
Language: English
Publisher: Backbeat Books
Release Date: 01/04/2000
Subtitle: Groundbreaking Instruments and Pioneering Designers of Electronic Music Synthesizers
Release Year: 2000

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