What Is an Electronic Sackbut? It’s probably not what you think it is

Photo caption: Behold, the electronic sackbut. Photo credit: Don Kennedy / National Music  Centre. Article by Allison Marsh. IEEE Spectrum – February 1, 2024.

If you, like me, think of musical synthesizers as an artifact of 1970s rock and disco, then you, like me, will be surprised to learn that the first electronic synthesizer predates those genres by several decades. In 1945, Hugh Le Caine, a physicist at Canada’s National Research Council, […]

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