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Harald Bode (October 19, 1909 – January 15, 1987) was a German engineer and pioneer in the development of electronic music instruments. == Biography == Harald Bode was born in 1909 in Hamburg, F.R.G.. At the age of 18 he lost his parents and started studying,〔 〕 and graduated from the University of Hamburg in 1934.〔 〕 In 1935, he began his pioneering work in the field of electronic musical instruments, and with funding support provided by Christian Warnke, his earliest work was completed in 1937.〔 Warbo Formant Organ (1937),〔 Originally published as 〕〔 〕 an archetype of today's polyphonic synthesizer, was a four voice key-assignment keyboard with two formant filters and dynamic envelope controller. Eventually it went into commercial production by a factory in Dachau,〔 〕 and it became one of the earliest polyphonic synthesizer products, along with Novachord (1939) by Hammond. Melochord (1947–1949) developed by Bode was extensively used by Werner Meyer-Eppler in early days of the electronic studio at Bonn University.〔 (description and history) 〕 Then in 1953 a Melochord, along with Monochord by Freidrich Trautwein,〔 Monochord, a modified Concert Trautonium, was commissioned from Dr. Freidrich Trautwein by the Studio for Electronic of WDR, Köln. 〕 was specially commissioned by the Studio for Electronic Music of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR Studio in Cologne, West German Broadcasting Corporation),〔 and used by the Elektronische Musik group throughout the 1950s.〔 (''see'' Melochord at the WDR Studio in Cologne) From 1950, Bode designed electronic organs for the Apparatewerk Bayern (AWB) in Germany and the Estey Organ Company in the United States. In 1954, Bode immigrated to the United States as a chief engineer (later vice-president) of Estey Organ,〔 and resumed his research at several companies and as a contractor of German companies. In 1959-1960, Bode developed modular synthesizer and sound processor, and in 1961, he wrote a paper exploring the advantages of newly emerging transistor technology over older vacuum tube devices;〔 〕〔 (draft typescript is available at the tail of PDF version. HTML version without draft is also available in ) 〕〔 〕 also he served as AES session chairman on ''music and electronic'' for the fall conventions in 1962 and 1964;〔 after then, his ideas were adopted by Robert Moog, Donald Buchla and others. After retiring from the chief engineer of Bell Aerospace〔 (also broken format page remains in (here )) 〕 in 1974, he composed TV-advertising spots and gave live concerts. Also in 1977, Harald was invited as a chief engineer of the Norlin/Moog Music〔 〕 after Robert Moog left. He died in New York, New York, United States in 1987.〔 Andrew Deutsch, James Fei, Aaron Miller, Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner), Steina Vasulka and Stephen Vitiello have collaborated with Bode posthumously.〔(Harald Bode, Carrier Band, Andrew Deutsch, James Fei, Aaron Miller, Scanner, Steina Vasulka, Stephen Vitiello )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harald Bode」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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