Photoelectronic optical musical instrument ANS

Category: Photo

| Date: 1957

| Holding Institution (Rights Holder): Russian National Museum of Music

| Related People and Organisations: E.A. Murzin, A.M. Avraamov, E.A. Sholpo, A. Shorin, S. A. Gubaidulina, E. Denisov, A.P. Nemtin, E.N. Artemyev, O. Buloshkin, S.A. Kreichi, O. Rostovskaya

The “ANS” photoelectronic music synthesiser was named in honour of Alexander Scriabin. Engineer and military-instrument specialist Evgeny Murzin (1914–1970) began developing it in 1937. He filed a patent application twenty years later, on 24 June 1957.

Links to Third-Party Publications:

Murzin E. A. Photoelectric music synthesizer: application. date No. 118695; application 06/24/1957; publ.: 1959 // USSR Patent Database. URL: https://patents.su/3-118695-fotoehlektricheskijj-sintezator-muzyki.html