Malcolm Cecil

Synthesizers are so pervasive an element in popular music of all types today that it’s easy to forget what a novelty they were only 25 years ago. TONTO is an acronym for “The Original New Timbral Orchestra“: the world’s first (and still the largest) multitimbral polyphonic analog synthesizer, designed and constructed by Malcolm Cecil. Its warm, rich timbres were particularly noteworthy and still cannot be recreated by the current breed of MIDI digital synthesizers and samplers.