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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Donna Ferguson

Florian Schneider’s Kraftwerk instruments put up for auction in US

Florian Schneider at the keyboard
Florian Schneider performing with Kraftwerk in Helsinki in 2004. Photograph: Jaakonaho/Rex/Shutterstock

He was a pioneer of electronic music whose band Kraftwerk redefined the sound of pop and influenced artists from David Bowie and New Order to Coldplay and Run-DMC.

Now the electronic equipment and musical instruments that Florian Schneider used to create some of the band’s best-known songs in the 1970s and 1980s could fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars when they are sold at auction next month.

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