Charles D. Stein shows a model how to play the Emicon at the Texas Centennial Exposition in Dallas, June 1936
(image courtesy:Shrine to Music Museum)
'The Emicon' (Model S) was developed in the USA by Nicholas Langer
and Hahnagyi. The Emicon was a monophonic vacuum tube oscillator
instrument controlled with a standard keyboard. The Emicon was
said to be able to produce tones similar to a cello, saxophone,
oboe, trumpet, mandolin, guitar and bagpipe. The Emicon was manufactured
and marketed by Emicon, Inc., Deep River, Connecticut, ca from
1932. A later portable traveling model was built into case with
an amplifier built into separate case.
An example of the Emicon survives at the 'Charles D. Stein Collection
of Early Electronic Instruments'
'Charles D. Stein Collection of Early Electronic Instruments'
Shrine to Music Museum
University of South Dakota
414 East Clark Street
Vermillion, SD 57069
Phone: (605)677-5306
Fax: (605)677-5073
E-mail: smm@sunflowr.usd.edu
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