Gearwire Graveyard

Anyone familiar with Looney Tunes is likely to be unfamiliar with Raymond Scott, Electronium designer. Bill Holland disinters some information on the Electronium and Raymond Scott.  

With a little bidding diligence and a lot of online research, you can find yourself a sweet, class A tube amp that's perfect for recording -- like the Fender Champ 12 -- for well under $200. And if you're really lucky, you'll even find one that's covered in faux snake skin tolex.  

Welcome to another ghastly edition of Gearwire Graveyard where Bill Holland disinters the history of the Trautonium. It's been making noise in film since the 1930's and is most famous for its use in a 1963 Alfred Hitchcock movie you may have seen.  

Gearwire Graveyard is back, and Bill Holland holds a seance to conjure up the history of the Prophet synth series and dig up some dirt on Dave Smith and his conception of MIDI.  

The Ondes Martenot has long been an obsession of many electronic composers. First given life in 1928, and exploding onto the market as the first commercially viable electronic instrument; the Ondes has a secured place...  

William Duddell developed the Singing Arc while working on developing quieter arc lighting for Victorian England. The results were a keyboard that could command unearthly tones out of arc lamps throughout entire buildings. ...