Tonto's Expanding Head Band - Zero Time - Plum Atlantic First Press A-1,B-1

	£		23
	$		30

I have a large collection of records which I have gathered for yrs.I knew I was going to sell them someday, so this present phase in our daily lives has got me kick started.I have decided to sell them ALL on here (eventually). I have had such a pleasure in collecting various type of music since I was 15.The first record I sold from my collection was Thin Lizzy on Decca, which was very hard,now it's not too bad selling the rest.

I will combine ALL postage (please just ask), e.g. 1 single =£1.64,up to 30 singles £3.50.1 LP - £3.50 also 1-3 LPs £3.50 (Second class ).If you are waiting for another item to use as part of your combined postage, then please let me know,thank you.Please contact me for any more info,all the best,Ann

To reduce postage costs for the buyer I have made my own cardboard packaging.

 I would like to thank all customers who keep coming back , I am very grateful to you all. 

Singles will come in a generic sleeve if I do not have a company sleeve for it.

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I purchased this a long time ago in a second hand record shop

First Pressing Matrix A-1,B-1

Sleeve is a little untidy,some blemishes and edges touched

Vinyl has a few marks but non feelable,plays excellent with some surface noise or clicks at times.No Hop, Skip or Jumps

Please contact me for any info you may require ,thank you

Tonto's Expanding Head Band was a British-American electronic music duo consisting of Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff. Despite releasing only two albums in the early 1970s, the duo were (and still remain) influential because of their session and production work for other musicians (most notably Stevie Wonder[1][2]), extensive commercial advertising work and the unique warmth and personality of their work.[citation needed]

Contents

• 1The TONTO synthesizer
• 2TONTO's influence
• 3Virtual TONTO Live
• 4Discography
  • 4.1Margouleff & Cecil engineering, production and programming credits
• 5References
• 6External links

The TONTO synthesizer[edit]

TONTO is an acronym for "The Original New Timbral Orchestra", the first, and still the largest, multitimbral polyphonic analog synthesizer in the world, designed and constructed over several years by Malcolm Cecil. TONTO started as a Moog modular synthesizer Series III owned by record producer Robert Margouleff. Later a second Moog III was added, then four Oberheim SEMs, two ARP 2600s, modules from Serge with Moog-like panels, EMS, Roland, Yamaha, etc.[3] plus several custom modules designed by Serge Tcherepnin and Cecil himself - who has an electrical engineering background.[4] Later, digital sound-generation circuitry and a collection of sequencers were added, along with MIDI control. All of this is housed in an instantly-recognizable semi-circle of huge curving wooden cabinets, twenty feet in diameter and six feet tall.

TONTO was featured (as the "electronic room") in the 1974 Brian de Palma film Phantom of the Paradise. It was also used in the album 1980 by Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson and was pictured on both the front and back covers of this album.

TONTO was owned by Malcolm Cecil since he acquired Robert Margouleff's share in 1975. In the mid-1990s TONTO was moved to Mutato Muzika studios,[6] the headquarters of Mark Mothersbaugh and Devo, leading to widespread rumors that Mothersbaugh had purchased TONTO but this was not true. TONTO eventually made its way back to Cecil's home in Saugerties, New York. In late 2013 TONTO was purchased by the National Music Centre in Calgary, Alberta.[7][8] The NMC had long desired to acquire TONTO and upon moving it to Calgary, placed it on exhibit. In late 2017, John Leimseider completed a multi-year restoration on TONTO, replacing worn out jacks and repairing broken connections. TONTO is now playable, and is a part of the living collection of National Music Centre. Synth artists can once again record with TONTO in NMC's state of the art recording studios. [9]

TONTO's influence[edit]

Tonto's Expanding Head Band's first album, Zero Time, was released in 1971 on the U.S. Embryo label (distributed by Atlantic Records) and attracted a lot of attention. Stevie Wonder in particular was impressed enough to subsequently feature TONTO in his albums starting with Music of My Mind and continuing through Talking Book, Innervisions, Fulfillingness' First Finale and Jungle Fever; all projects which listed Margouleff and Cecil as associate producers, engineers and programmers (and winning them an engineering Grammy for Innervisions).[10] Wonder said[citation needed]: