Novachord and Vera Lynn

[ppppenguin]

Reading about the late Vera Lynn today an obituary said that "We'll Meet Again" was recording using the earliest synthesiser, the Hammond Novachord.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novachord

Over 150 valves and lots of custom capacitors.

Lots of info including schematics here: https://web.archive.org/web/201201120601...chord.com/

[Mike Watterson]

Victorian vampires that had phones and electric lighting installed in their castles used these instead of organs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telharmonium
They also had their own steam turbine 100 kW generators as 67 kW needed for the instrument.