The one thing you might be surprised not to find in [Laurent]’s beautiful tonewheel organ build is any tonewheels at all. Tonewheels were an early way to produce electronic organ sounds: by spinning a ...

Younger readers may not recall the days when every mall had a music store — not the kind where tapes and LPs were sold, but the kind where you could buy instruments. These places inevitably had an ...

Once upon a time a prolific inventor installed a tonewheel in an old piano and the resultant sounds so impressed his friend, a church organist, that, 80 years ago, he went into production of an ...

A solid all-rounder. It has decent tonewheel and acoustic piano emulations and the other bread and butter sounds are good too. Best stage pianos 2026: Our pick of the finest keyboards for live ...

Bassist Leo Sherman knows a thing or two about turns in tone connected to life, time, language and music. Born in Russia, in a repressive, antisemitic atmosphere that eventually drove his family from ...

LinPlug's organ has blossomed into an instrument that will appeal to programmers and players alike. Those who buy it will find themselves using it frequently. More presets would be nice. More ...

Native Instruments on Wednesday released an update for its B4 II organ software instrument. This update brings Intel-native support to Mac users. The update is free for users that activated B4 II ...

After decades in the music industry, Paul Davis has become accustomed to seeing storied instrument manufacturers move production overseas. A lifelong pianist and keyboardist, the last straw for Davis ...