Vintage Synthesizers

By Mark Vail

Book Overview

VINTAGE SYNTHESIZERS 2ND ED UPDATED & EXPANDED This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879302755
• ISBN13: 9780879302757
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Backbeat
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 1.1" x 1.1"

Customer Reviews

addictive

In a word , addictive. I love this book, I keep coming to it looking for info year after year.

A wonderful trip down memory lane

This is one serious book. A comprehensive technology guide about all those vintage synthesizers we love. CleverJoe is a keyboardist and long time analog freak, and this is truly a good resource for all you genuine analog lovers out there (you know who you are, lurking in the shadows...). Lots of pics, chapters on Moog, ARP, Korg, Yamaha, Buchla, many more. Of course there will inevitably be some grumbling from a few people who don't see their fave synth covered, but the book is not meant to be a complete price or synthesizer reference guide. Instead it is a wonderful trip down memory lane, with extensive background information on the evolution of synthesizers, insights into the business side of the builders, and the history of some of the most amazing synthesizer built.

This is a must have!

This book is an outstanding resource for musicians who are more or less purists or who have that fever that leads you to seek out fine vintage instruments like Moogs. A great read and a really cool history of the instrument... plus it gives you the current value of all of the instruments!

Where is Roland?

THis is a great book for lovers of synthesizers,drum machines, and the history behind synth inovators.The only downside is that it doesn't cover much on Roland and Korg. If it did I'd give it a 5 stars.Maybe an update is due in the secondhand section as when I first bought this book the prices were near enough, but since the Techno DIY ethic prices have skyrocketed.Well worth an investigation

very cool synth info

this one is a must for anyone interested in synthesizers, and THE synthesizers...