The novachord is considered by some the first commercially manufactured synthesizer. Only about 1000 of them existed at this time, the last one having been manufactured in 1942.
Never mind, found video of Billy Mayerl playing one! Looks large as a Hammond B3,& tons of what i think are valve tubes with relays shown in the front panel.
Well, that was different. I wonder how many people who heard it noticed the slightly out-of-this-world quality of that sound. That said, I should add that I've never seen a turntable like the one here before. It looks like a BSR, but it seems to have a VoiceOfMusic/Ensign style 12" sensor, rather than the rear-pivoted tooth-like thing I've normally seen on BSR and Sears/Crescent changers. Is that really a BSR or some obscure clone?
The novachord is considered by some the first commercially manufactured synthesizer. Only about 1000 of them existed at this time, the last one having been manufactured in 1942.
Never mind, found video of Billy Mayerl playing one! Looks large as a Hammond B3,& tons of what i think are valve tubes with relays shown in the front panel.
Milt Buckner plays one on Lionel Hampton's 20th Century Boogie.
czcams.com/video/gX3FQj4qsEE/video.htmlsi=bvc8UNFKNumR_qUQ
Well, that was different. I wonder how many people who heard it noticed the slightly out-of-this-world quality of that sound. That said, I should add that I've never seen a turntable like the one here before. It looks like a BSR, but it seems to have a VoiceOfMusic/Ensign style 12" sensor, rather than the rear-pivoted tooth-like thing I've normally seen on BSR and Sears/Crescent changers. Is that really a BSR or some obscure clone?
Any idea of the full personnel on the record?
Slim Gaillard took the Novachord in a direction out of the atmospheric and ballad right into boogie!
Do you or can you get/find a photo or video of this instrument in action?
Sweetwater released here demo with restored Novachord few weeks ago.