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1 week agoKraftwerk Co-Founder Florian Schneider's Synths, Volkswagen Van, and More Available at Auction
Among the recording equipment and memorabilia available to bid on are Schneider's 1964 Volkswagen van, the Panasonic bicycle he rode in the 1984 music video for a remix of "Tour De France," a number of woodwind and brass instruments-including the 1960s Orsi alto flute that appeared on the back cover of Kraftwerk's 1970 self-titled debut-and a rack case of Votrax speech synthesizer units, which the band used to create the robot voices that opened all of their concerts between 1981 and 2002.
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