Category:Hugh Le Caine

Hugh Le Caine (May 27, 1914 – July 3, 1977) was a Canadian physicist, composer and instrument builder.

At home he pursued a life-long interest in electronic music and sound generation. In 1937, Le Caine designed an electronic free reed organ and in the mid 1940s, built the Electronic Sackbut, now recognised to be one of the first synthesizers. After the success of public demonstrations of his instruments, he was permitted to move his musical activities to NRC and to work on them full time in 1954. Over the next twenty years, he built over 22 different new instruments. Le Caine also collaborated in the development of pioneering electronic music studios at the University of Toronto in 1959 and at McGill University in 1964.

See also[edit]

• Hugh Le Caine, An Inventor's Notebook by Gayle Young

Hugh Le Caine 

Canadian composer and physicist
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Date of birth	27 May 1914 Port Arthur
Date of death	3 July 1977 Ottawa
Cause of death	traffic collision
Country of citizenship	Canada
Occupation	physicist composer nuclear physicist
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