WELCOME TO THE SYNTHOPHONE ZONE!!!

[seraph]

The SYNTHOPHONE is an actual alto sax that has been "hot-rodded" with electronics to send MIDI data to synthesizers and computers.

The instrument feels and plays like a sax, but in addition is also capable of producing some quite amazing new effects like chords, which change within a diatonic context along your melodic lines.

The MIDI format of the SYNTHOPHONE allows you to choose from a large selection of synthesizers, enables you to play into sequencers and even use notation programs that will turn your music into written parts immediately.

With special "command fingerings" it is possible to leave your synthesizers backstage, since you can select your sounds and their ideal performance parameters directly from the instrument.
http://synthophone.home.att.net/

[seraph]

the Synthophone is made in Switzerland
The first time I saw one it was 1989 or 1990 in Boston, USA when Bruno Spoerri a Swiss musician came to the Berklee College of Music to demo it. Check his web site:
http://www.computerjazz.ch/