graphite resistance controls

[R.Fahl]

>Hugh Le Caine....funny that so much electronic-music technology came
>from America, yet innovation in the CONTROLLER had to come from Canada....
>American EM devices nearly ALWAYS used an organ keyboard.....

I'd say one big exception would be Buchla who used touch keyboards for most
of his machines.  I don't know if he was the first to use them, though.

>
>Think about non-keyboard instruments before 1960:
>--Theremin was Russian
>--Trautwein, German (the Trautonium used a ribbon controller)
>--Le Caine, Canadian
>--Gurov and Ivanov (developed fingerboard-controlled devices) were also Russian
>--who else?
>
>--and yet American innovators (Cahill, Gernsback, Hammond, Ranger, Allen,
>etc.) all stuck with organ keys. The only big exception I can think of is
>the RCA synthesizer.

Oh, hey, what about the Motorolla Scalatron?

R>