{"id":50,"date":"2011-11-10T19:07:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T09:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/output.plus618.com\/?p=50"},"modified":"2011-11-10T19:08:58","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T09:38:58","slug":"hammond-novachord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/output.plus618.com\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Hammond Novachord"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"1939 bleeding edge!\" src=\"http:\/\/discretesynthesizers.com\/nova\/photos\/damage.jpg\" title=\"Novachord\" width=\"576\" height=\"461\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">1939 bleeding edge!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A year before Hitler decided he&#8217;d like to own a Poland, Hammond built the worlds first polyphonic synth, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Novachord\">Novachord<\/a>. Production began in 1938, and just over a thousand units were built up until 1942. The actual synth part of the Novachord ran entirely on tubes and caps and had a pretty amazing sound.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vhx0C-zK4wU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Those pads at about 0:45 and again at about the two minute mark are absolutely beautiful! Here, have some audio of a Novachord being played with an accompanying theramin.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HVfhzLl5C9U?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hit up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.novachord.co.uk\/\">http:\/\/www.novachord.co.uk\/ <\/a>for more info on this amazing piece of kit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year before Hitler decided he&#8217;d like to own a Poland, Hammond built the worlds first polyphonic synth, the Novachord. Production began in 1938, and just over a thousand units were built up until 1942. The actual synth part of the Novachord ran entirely on tubes and caps and had a pretty amazing sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[73,74,24,72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/output.plus618.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/output.plus618.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/output.plus618.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/output.plus618.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/output.plus618.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/output.plus618.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/output.plus618.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/output.plus618.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/output.plus618.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/output.plus618.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}