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Max Crook Musitron, other

Runaway · Del Shannon / Single (1961)

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Contest: Max Crook Musitron played other on Runaway by Del Shannon (1961)

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Sources

  1. uDiscover Music, "'Runaway': The Revolutionary Pre-Synth Sound Of Del Shannon". “He invented the Musitron, an adapted version of the 1947 creation the clavioline. It was an electronic keyboard that gave space-age sound effects to popular music decades before the synthesizer.”
    B Added by Synthbot @synthbot, accepted 11 Sep 2026 Open the source

    Contest: uDiscover Music, "'Runaway': The Revolutionary Pre-Synth Sound Of Del Shannon".

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Who played it

Played by Max Crook from https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/a-runaway-no-1-for-del-shannon/

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