Bonn - Deutsches Museum (Mixturtrautonium)

[Tittlekopf]

This was the Instrument that made the Bird-SFX from Alfred Hitchcocks "The Birs" or "Die Vögel" :)

[ORUPRANKSTAZ]

Who produced this monstrosity of sound? It's fabulous!

[elgauchoandres]

@ORUPRANKSTAZ The sounds are samples played by Oskar Sala himself coming from the multimedia booth right next to the Mixturtrautonium. Cheers.

[GMS267]

An informative look at the original all vacuum tube mixturtrautonium. It's a crying shame that this instrument isn't more widely known. A sound like no other, way ahead of it's time and a truly expressive and myterious instrument.

[yermyahu]

It looks as if you can change the scaling by adjusting the finger tabs left -right manually on the rack, and/or turning the dial placed down by the extreme end of the resistive wire.

[organfairy]

The Trautonium is a resistance controlled oscillator system - the later synthesizer is a voltage controlled oscillator system - and it would be easy to adjust the scaling by adding extra resistance controlled by a knob. You can also change the pitch by moving the pedals sideways or by changing the division on the subharmonic oscillators.

[yermyahu]

Thanks for posting the info to the real one...I didn't know it was on here. Crazy, when I was 15 and saw the movie 'The Birds' by Alfred Hitchcock' I thought to myself - those bird noises are synthesized and I thought maybe it was done by a Buchla or something...well, not quite. It was only just recently I found out that this instrument was a full-fledged synthesizer even though I've seen some B&W pictures of it in the past. Have you checked out the Hammond Novachord?

[elgauchoandres]

I know about the Novachord but didn't know there's one in Deutsches Museum. If you like EM instruments you could check my other videos (DM-München and WDR Studio-Köln). Also I have tons of pictures in my photoalbums in picasa - INSTRUMENTS AT DETAIL!