- Electronic Sackbut
The Electronic Sackbut is an electronic instrument designed by
Hugh Le Caine beginning in the 1940s.The Sackbut had a feature which resembles what has become the modulation wheel(s) on today's
synthesizer s: The player used the left hand to modify the sound while the right hand was used to play the keyboard. [ [http://www.hughlecaine.com/en/sackbut.html hughlecaine.com] ] This compares with today's synthesizers which have one or several modulation wheels to the left of the keyboard (often controlling modulation and pitch).The controller, which the player of the Sackbut used, modified volume, pitch and
timbre . Thus it was one of the first electronic instruments to use a three-dimensional continuous controller to modify the sound in a live situation. Such control sophistication is still rare in today's electronic instruments.Le Caine began working full time in a new lab at the
National Research Council of Canada in 1954, where he built over 22 different new instruments before his death in 1977. While he developed four models of the Sackbut, none ever saw commercial production.References
External links
* [http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/collection/music7.cfm Science Tech article]
* [http://web.media.mit.edu/~joep/SpectrumWeb/SpectrumX.html Paradiso, 1998. "Electronic Music Interfaces".]
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