January 2011
Don't call it a keytar
acousmata:
The “Orphika,” a keyboard instrument designed to be worn on a strap over the shoulder, invented in Vienna in 1795 by Carl Leopold Röllig.
Image from Alte Musikinstrumente: ein Leitfaden für Sammler by Hermann Ruth-Sommer (Berlin, 1916)
“The truth is that none of us can know exactly what triggered this vicious...”
– President BARACK OBAMA, in remarks delivered at a memorial service earlier tonight for the victims of the shootings in Tucson, Arizona.
(via the New York Times)
