With all respect to the inventor, the Ondes Martenot was invented decades earlier and was a legitimately useful instrument. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ondes

With all respect to the inventor, the Ondes Martenot was invented decades earlier and was a legitimately useful instrument. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ondes_Martenot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ondes_Martenot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yidV0HeVyCg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yidV0HeVyCg To my mind, the best of the early (pre-Buchla/Moog) electronic synthesisers was the Hammond Novachord. It's remarkable that a commercial record was released with a polyphonic synthesiser as the sole instrument in 1939, and even more remarkable that it was anything but a novelty - it sounds absolutely gorgeous. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novachord https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novachord https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1xrofiEa4w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1xrofiEa4w