Ciat-Lonbard Tocante Thyris Green solar-powered synthesizer

USED: No major damages and no major or obvious signs of abuse. Minimal wear, if any. Fun to play with, all-tactile, portable, solar-powered, with a built-in speaker and 1/8" output.

The tocante line of musical instruments is "about" and "touching" the materials of electronics. each touchpad represents a pitch according to industry "preferred numbers," chosen by old wartime engineers for non-musical purposes. here they form a unique and haunting musical scale, not unlike that of a gamelan or the neutral intervals of persian music. beyond these base pitches, three golden sandrodes flank each touchpad; touching these androgynous nodes yields intermodulation, pitch and timbral shifts, and emergent chaotic masses. the instruments come in three flavors: thyris the triangle, bistab the square, and phashi the circle. the oscillators sound like a bowed string, a most powerful clarinet, and a howling serene whistle, respectively. each responds to touch differently. solar panels charge the onboard batteries, that power the oscillators and a speaker. they are the perfect self-contained instrument for nightly music at the campground.