Sackbut
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- OBJECT TYPE
- monophonic synthesizer/keyboard
- DATE
- 1945–1948
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1975.0336.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- prototype
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 2
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Totally hand built. Wood stand and top (partially made of old trunk boards). Synthetic, metal, and glass electronic components, switches, cords, parts. Synthetic key keyboard (from some type of small organ).
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 95.0 cm
- Width
- 52.0 cm
- Height
- 82.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Communications
- Category
- Music
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- LeCaine
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- City
- Ottawa
Context
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
Prototype Sackbut, one of four designed by pioneering Canadian electronic music composer and instrument designer Dr. Hugh Le Caine of NRC, built by Le Caine in his home electronic music studio in 1945-1948, and brought to NRC in 1954 for further development. - Function
-
A monophonic synthesizer producing one tone at a time, intended as a performance and studio instrument, with pitch, volume, and timbre controlled by a touch sensitive keyboard and a foot pedal (ref. 2). - Technical
-
The "first synthesizer", which pioneered several techniques later used in voltage controlled synthesizers, it advanced the application of voltage control, wave form generation, and frequency modulation to the production and control of musical sound (ref. 3). - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- White hand lettering reading 'ELECTRONIC SACKBUT' on front above the keyboard.
- Missing
- Some parts removed and used on later instruments. According to a 1974 discussion between E. Decoste & Le Caine, there was one earlier version that was dismantled and some parts used for this one.
- Finish
- Unfinished wood (parts originally painted grey). Synthetic components primarily black, white and brown. Metal components plated, brushed, painted black and unfinished.
- Decoration
- None.
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Unknown Manufacturer, Sackbut, between 1945–1948, Artifact no. 1975.0336, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingenium.ca/en/id/1975.0336.001/
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