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The musical synthesizer "ANS" (abbreviation in honor of the great Russian composer Alexander Nikolaevich Skryabin) is the first Russian synthesizer using the unique optical synthesis method developed by the scientist E.Murzin in 1937-1957. A synthesizer is a device that combines three processes: creating, recording and playing music. ANS is a tool that allows you to literally draw music: all the processes occurring in the synthesizer are quite complex, they consist of rotating glass discs with images, the interaction of various mechanisms and lamps. Sounds are previously drawn on glass discs, after which it is possible to listen to recorded material. ANS contains an octave of 72 elements. Currently there is the first and only valid copy of this device, which is stored at the Moscow University. Lomonosov and continues to be successfully used by many famous Russian composers.
Based on information from collection of Valery Khartchenko