![]() ![]() There was a demand for new sound colours, Klangfarben, by composers that had been written about in Germany as early as 1888. But he had in mind to build an instrument which would produce musical sounds completely out of electronics, using vacuum tubes, which at that time were the state of the art basic technology for radios and many other electric devices. ![]() Harald got knowledge of this and improved it. One of these was the Steinway-Hiller Grand Piano (which was patented but never went into production). ![]() At this time grand pianos with pickups to transfer the vibrations of the strings into electric waves were developed already. Recording technology was not very advanced at this time, so Harald got in touch with the problem of recording a grand piano properly. Around 1935, Harald Bode, an educated physicist at the age of 26, with a strong musical background - his father was an organ player and teacher, his mother played harpsichord - started a recording business in his hometown Hamburg, Germany, with a microphone and a recording device. ![]()
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