Trautonium player Oskar Sala

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From Der Spiegel 18/1997

Edited July 6, 2004 by rockefeller center

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[mikeweil]

I suspect you know that Oscar Sala passed away a year or so ago.

I think I read that article back then, It may have helped his rediscovery, as there were three CDs with his music and his interpretations of Hindemith pieces (which he had to reconstruct) on Erdenklang (http://www.erdenklang.de), which I can recommend.

The Trautonium is a unique instrument with a playfeel much closer to a violin than a keyboard, and much more human in its expressive means than any synthesizer, but it is an endangered species. Sala's instrument was the last of its kind, and I sincerely hope his assistant in his last years manages to maintain it.

[rockefeller center]

Yes, Sala died in 2002. There's a guy in Germany who maintains http://www.trautonium.de/ and is working on a self-made Trautonium. A part of his site is dedicated to Sala.