Volkstrautonium, Telefunken Berlin, 1933/1934 Photo: PD BY Museumsinsulaner
The Theremin and the Ondes Martenot are still in use today - indeed the latter includes Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood amongst its players.
The Trautonium, a contemporary of these early electronic instruments, is less well-known today, but Paul Hindemith wrote for it in the early 1930s.
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Trautoniks - custom-made Trautoniums and controllers.
Trautonium player Oskar Sala in 1941 ...and in 1991.
Peter Pichler plays Hindemith on the Mixturtrautonium.
