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‘The devil’s trumpet’: When the synth geek met the Town Hall’s grand organ – Sydney Morning Herald
Ehsan Gelsi, composer and collector of retro synthesisers, was given the chance to compose for Melbourne Town Hall’s massive pipe organ.
Ehsan Gelsi is happy to embrace the title of synth geek. Its well-earned.
The collection of music-making electronics the musician and composer has assembled over the years is worth eye-popping amounts of money. His beloved Moog System 55 alone is the size of a fridge and would set you back tens of thousands of dollars (a pinnacle of absolutely redundant technology, says Gelsi).
Ehsan Gelsi with his treasured Moog System 55.
But recently he got to play with a musical instrument that puts the Moog…
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