I have Made this section of the Audio Playground Synthesizer Museum just for the purpose of teaching how some of the units we have at the museum were created. I lecture at Full Sail university about history and MIDI as well as future technologies. And one thing I have noticed is that most of my students have the interest of how did they get that sound. As a teaching add I stated making diagrams up on the board, but it was hard to show them how the parts moved. I came up with the idea of using flash. I could make the parts move and play the sound just like if I had the unit in front of me. Many time even better.

I have decided to make my teaching tools available to anybody that visits the museum's site. Why did I start the museum in 1992 but to teach and show people about the rich history of electronic musical instruments. So here they are, I have remade my original files to make them more web friendly, and added some text explanations.

I hope you enjoy them and learn something new.

Joseph Rivers

The Hammond Tone Wheel Organs like the B-3

Find out how the Mr. Hammond created the sound that lasted over a half century.

updated 11/5/00

The Fender Rhodes Electric Piano

Find out how H.Rhodes created the classic Rhodes sound.

updated 2/4/00

The Wurlitzer Electric Piano

Find out how the Wurlitzer Electric Piano creates sound.

updated 2/4/01

The Leslie Rotory Speaker

Find out how the Leslie creates its unique tone.

updated 2/1/01

The Mellotron and Chanberlin

Sounds from analog sampling

updated 4/29/02

The Honer Clavinet

Using bango strings in a new way

Coming Soon

The Vocoder

The Robot Vocals

updated 9/19/02