Comments on: The Best Books About Synthesis History You’ll Ever (be unable to) Read https://www.preservationsound.com/the-best-books-about-synthesis-history-youll-ever-be-unable-to-read/ information and ideas about audio history Sat, 13 Jul 2019 00:03:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: DAC Crowell https://www.preservationsound.com/the-best-books-about-synthesis-history-youll-ever-be-unable-to-read/#comment-585628 Sat, 13 Jul 2019 00:03:25 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=7040#comment-585628 Poking around the site brought me to this page…and I thought I’d seen that Bengt Brodin proto-keytar before. Sure enough, you can see Ralf Hutter in a video of Kraftwerk from 1970 plonking away at one of these, right at the beginning on “Stratovarius”. Check https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNoFHdlMrtI

]]> By: bafflegab https://www.preservationsound.com/the-best-books-about-synthesis-history-youll-ever-be-unable-to-read/#comment-179600 Fri, 06 Sep 2013 00:39:41 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=7040#comment-179600 The Czechs are a underrated bunch. Look at the bottom photo: it looks like those dials are off a Bruel and Kjaer heterodyne oscillator (similar to the WE 19C but a lot more precise).

I have a lot of foreign language electronics books. The Germans have a lot of great ones, and I have learned to read technical German to an extent because of this. German is the second most popular language in the Czech republic FWIW.

I have a lot of Japanese audio magazines, but mostly for the schematics and pictures. Learning Japanese is an epic process: I think even Alan Douglas, who wrote the seminal article “Tubes in Japan” that kicked off the whole single ended triode insanity in the US (Joe Roberts never heard of it before then, and the vacuum cleaner salesman hadn’t either) finally gave up on it.

Czech guitars were the best in the Eastern Bloc, but not up to US or British standards. Their beer sure was though. (American beers back then were all pisswater, so not much competition. )

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