Jewish Invention Myths: The Portable Synthesizer
Yet another ‘jewish invention’ claim is that they invented the portable synthesizer so commonly used in the production of music today. The specific individual they cite is Raymond Scott; (1) who indeed did produce an analog synthesizer in the 1940s and then later a portable one. (2)
The problem is that this had actually been invented more than a decade earlier by German engineer Friedrich Trautwein in 1930 and was called the ‘Trautonium’ (3) which was then picked up by German engineer and physicist Oskar Sala who created an analog electronic synthesizer called the ‘Volkstrautonium’ in 1933 – which German electronics and radio giant Telefunken hoped to popularise and sell but were interrupted by the Second World War – (4) and in 1938 Sala followed it up with a portable analog electronic synthesizer called the ‘Konzerttrautonium’. (5)
Sala’s ‘Konzerttrautonium’ was the first portable analog electronic synthesizer after the analog electronic synthesizer had first been invented by Scottish physicist James Robert Milne in 1906, (6) while John Hanert, Laurens Hammond and C. N. Williams created and produced one called ‘Novachord’ in the United States from 1939 (7) and Frenchman Georges Marcel Charles Jenny invented the similar ‘Ondioline’ that he began building in 1939 and was working by 1946. (8)
All before Scott I might add.
So no jews didn’t invent the portable synthesizer!
References
(1) https://christianislamicforum.wordpress.com/dedicated-to-our-jewish-brethren/
(2) https://web.archive.org/web/20111106035451/http://raymondscott.com/moog.html; https://web.archive.org/web/20111113023228/http://raymondscott.com/1946.htm; https://www.raymondscott.net/docs/RS-Artifacts.pdf
(3) https://www.britannica.com/biography/Friedrich-Trautwein
(4) https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/telefunken_trautonium_ela_t_42_t42vo.html
(5) https://web.archive.org/web/20110719024748/http://www.intuitivemusic.com/oskar-sala-biography
(6) https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/28495; https://www.ubuy.co.no/en/product/8FLV72MGU-a-new-form-of-harmonic-synthetiser-1906-leatherbound
(7) https://web.archive.org/web/20120112060108/http://www.novachord.com/
(8) https://ondioline.com/about