Hugh Le Caine's 1948 Sackbut Synthesizer: Performance Mode of Electronic Instruments

Young, Gayle

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Hugh Le Caine's 1948 Sackbut Synthesizer: Performance Mode of Electronic Instruments

Young, Gayle

Volume 1984, 1984

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ï~~ HUGH LE CAINE'S 1948 SACKBUT SYNTHESIZER PERFORMANCE MODE OF ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS GAYLE YOUNG 146 RIDGE ROAD-WEST, GRIMSBY, ONTARIO, CANADA, L3M 4E7 Fig. 1 Hugh Le Caine performing on the electronic Sackbut of 1948. (The second "t" on Sackbut as shown in the photo was removed later.) The right hand controls volume and pitch through the keyboard while the left hand controls timbre. The photo, courtesy of the National Research Council of Canada, was taken in 1954, when the Elmus Labs project opened there. 203 ICMC '84 Proceedings