# Hugh Le Fucking Caine

- Site: Analog Industries
- Author: Chris Randall
- Date: 2005-10-18
- URL: https://analogindustries.com/2005/10/hugh-le-fucking-caine/

![Hugh Le Fucking Caine](https://analogindustries.com/images/blog/sb5.jpg)

There are giants, and then there are **_BOLD ITALIC GIANTS_**. Hugh LeCaine is definitely of the latter group of giants. Pictured above, playing his 1945 creation, the [Electronic Sackbut](http://www.hughlecaine.com/en/sackbut.html) (sometimes this shit just writes itself, you know?), LeCaine is one of the baker's dozen of people that can lay claim to having invented synthesis. The rest of [HughLeCaine.com](http://www.hughlecaine.com/en/) is chock-full of the sort of information that is only available in countries where you can get grants for making web sites like this. Check out the Instruments page for the [Special Purpose Tape Recorder,](http://www.hughlecaine.com/en/sptape.html) a Mellotron fore-runner, and the [Oscillator Bank,](http://www.hughlecaine.com/en/oscbank.html) which, as the name implies, is a bank of 106 oscillators.

## Comments (2)

**Suit & Tie Guy** (2005-10-18):

have you seen the Alchemists Of Sound documentary yet?

**slabman** (2005-10-18):

LeCaine focused on creating new instruments. The Sackbut had some cool ways to manipulate pitch and timbre that allowed for virtuoso expression. He used odd ways to achieve this - coupling different waveforms into a controller through capacitance - that offer some fantastic possibilities for experimentation. Pity you can't still buy a Sackbut. By the way, for those who don't know, a sackbut was a kind of medieval leather trombone!