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Here's a clip from the documentary Magic Music From The Telharmonium . The Telharmonium was the first electronic synthesizer complete with a touch sensitive keyboard. Three different versions were built, weighing from 7 tons to almost 200 tons! For those wanting more spoilers, you can read this great synthmuseum.com article about the instrument .

Here's David Gilmour and showing how they did the the synth line for On the Run on an EMS Synthi A . And here's a Synthi advert from days gone by.

The Electronium is a huge electronic synthesizer built in 1960s by Raymond Scott . Here's a talk from the restorator of the thing. Keep up the good work in restoring this awesome piece of history! EDIT: I had to include this MIND-BOGGLING composition of his using the Electronium.

If you've never heard of Bruce Haack , you should check this out. Bruce Haack was a real pioneer of electronic music, making electronic albums starting in the late sixties. The audio not the best but works.

Every synth enthusiast must watch this: Moby going through his collection of synthesizers. The old drum synths get a lot of screen time. And Moby couldn't be more wrong when he ends the video by telling us he's not cool.

Something for the guitarists out there. Check out this collection of cool / ridiculous and above all, strange guitars.

Very nice demonstration of the Eigenharp, with step-by-step introduction to it's capabilities. So cool.

Gotta love Zappa.

Very cool instrument - like a thumb piano but bigger and better... Array instruments has it's own interesting way of arranging the notes on this thing. See more here .

Here's another short doc for you to watch! Mainly people describing circuit bending with some nice bent sounds.

This is so cool. A short clip of an old speech synth in action.

Here's something for you to watch: a nice little documentary on circuit bending. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

For all the Android users out there, here's a cool free app for you: Music Synthesizer by Raph Levien. It's an emulation of the legendary Yamaha DX7 . Via Music radar .

Here's another free synth for you: Gimmick Graph - a synthesizer where you draw the waveform. This one is only available for the Mac users out there. Found via this Sonic State article .

Here's something for the Windows VST users: EXD-80, a free drum synth by Third Harmonic Studios . It's a virtual analog drum synthesizer, and good for all kinds of electronic music and more. See more info in this article by Sonic State.

Loving this one, nice enclosure & details!

When the user creates ripples in the water tank, a few phototransistors and an Arduino detect the changes in light. The Arduino then sends some MIDI data to a synth. Interesting but seems a bit nonresponsive at times.

Two videos of worms "making music". Actually it seems they're more like circuit benders but that's OK too.

Here's an awesome demonstration of the robotic drum and percussion ensemble by Jazari ! Found this from the #1 circuit-bending page, getlofi.com .