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- OBJECT TYPE
- analogue
- DATE
- 1966
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2005.0100.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Conn Co.
- MODEL
- Multi-Vider
- LOCATION
- Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 911
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- metal casing, knobs and parts/ synthetic switches and parts
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 19.5 cm
- Width
- 10.3 cm
- Height
- 4.7 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Communications
- Category
- Music
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Conn
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Indiana
- City
- Elkhart
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- mid 1960s +
- Canada
-
Part of a collection of electronic equipment for musical composition, performance and recording owned and used by Canadian Paul Hoffert, composer, musician, author, researcher, entrepreneur and arts administrator. American born, he came to Canada as a child and his career has encompassed many areas of the Canadian music business, including working as a jazz pianist, CBC music director and performer, educator, manufacturer of stereo equipment, music producer, and film composer. In the late 1960s he worked for a short time as a researcher in Hugh LeCaine's electronic music lab at NRC, where he wrote a computer program for music analysis and developed a solid-body electric violin. In 1968 Hoffert and rock drummer Skip Prokop, formed the very successful jazz-rock band Lighthouse (1969-1974, 1982, 1993-present), which earned one platinum record and four gold records and received three Juno awards between 1971 and 1973 In 1977 Hoffert received a Canadian Film Award (later known as a Genie) for best original musical score for the movie "Outrageous!". He also headed the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, the Guild of Canadian Film and Television Composers,and the Ontario Council for the Art. In 1995 he was inducted into the Canadian Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2009 he was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada. - Function
-
A device which takes the audio input from a microphone or a pick-up on a wind instrument and transposes it up or down octaves to create new synthetic sounds. - Technical
-
The Hoffert collection consists of approximately 25 pieces of electronic equipment for musical composition, performance and recording. These range from iconic keyboard instruments of the 1970s, to a variety of digital devices from the 1980s, to computer software from the early 1990s. These were used either for stage performances, especially during his years in the jazz rock band Lighthouse, or for work in his home studio. Founded in 1874, Conn is a long-time maker of brass instruments that continues in business today as a division of United Musical Instruments. Between 1940 and about 1970 Conn had an active Research, Development and Design division that produced a number of electronic instruments and accessories. The Multi-Vider was an electronic signal processor that took the audio input from a microphone or a pick-up on a wind instrument and transposed it up or down octaves to create new synthetic sounds. The Lighthouse horn players used Multi-Viders. Paul Hoffert used this example for the original Lighthouse demo as well as for jingles and film scores. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- grey lettering on top reads 'CONN [logo] Multi-Vider'/ black lettering on back is partly obscured by a port but appears to reads 'MANUFACTURED BY JORDAN ELECTRONICS/ EXCLUSIVELY FOR/ ... CORPORATION/ ...HART, INDIANA/ ...TENT APPLIED FOR'/ incised lettering on casing reads '0911'/ grey lettering for control functions/ partial label reads 'RESEARCH/ of/ Canada Inc,' and '9983'
- Missing
- unknown
- Finish
- brushed metal casing with black painted and brushed top/ plated knobs/ black synthetic switches
- Decoration
- black striping on top
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Conn Co., Processor, signal, circa 1966, Artifact no. 2005.0100, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2005.0100.001/
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