An Illustrated Guide to Prog Rock Instruments

Gerinski wrote: Dayvenkirq wrote: ^ Since you are going that far, how about the instruments that Gryphon used (krumhorns and such) ? Gentle Giant and PFM?  Honestly Gryphon is one of those well-known bands I have no idea about  (never been too fond of Folk Prog), and I had to search to find out what a krumhorn is (double ). But who knows, maybe as I learn more these may get a place in my article too

Alright then.

Edited by Dayvenkirq - July 12 2013 at 19:43

HackettFan wrote: I don't recall any mention of the optigan. It seems to have an unsuccessful history wedged in a no man's land historically between the mellotron and digital samplers. Did anyone other than Steve Hackett use one?

I mentioned the Optigan in the Vako Orchestron entry, which was a descendant of the Optigan. The Optigan was meant as a home keyboard, not for professional use, so I doubt any professional musicians used it (although I am not certain). Among the Orchestron users I only know of Kraftwerk and Patrick Moraz.

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^ Hi, that original thread had become impossible to edit, I guess because there was too much stuff in a single post, so I migrated the article to this new thread where I split the contents in several posts

Thanks Chuck, that's a really cool pic!

Thanks! but you posted in the old version of the thread, there's a new one which has been updated, extended and corrected in some points, here:

Edited by Gerinski - March 13 2015 at 08:00

thank you for all your hard work many thanks...