How would you like to own a synthesizer that belonged to one of electronic music's most pioneering figures? Now's your chance, as a vast collection of instruments that belonged to Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk goes up for auction in the United States.
The instrument in question is Schneider's EMS Synthi AKS, a suitcase synthesizer that was acquired by Kraftwerk in 1972, becoming the group's first synth and a central part of their historic Kling Klang studio. Kraftwerk used an EMS Synthi on the 1974 album Autobahn, and it's likely that this was the very same instrument heard on that enduringly influential recording. The initial estimate was set at $15,000 to $20,000, but bids have already exceeded $27,000.
