Les Fradkin was one of the first members of Broadway’s Beatlemania musical and was a successful singer/songwriter in the ’70s.
These days he’s become known for playing the Starr Labs Ztar, which is a MIDI guitar-like controller. The Ztar isn’t the only synthesizer he’s become known for using, though; in the early ’80s, Fradkin was one of the first people to use tapeless MIDI recording on the SyntheAxe and Synclavier controllers.
You can hear Fradkin playing a Ztar and plenty of other stringed instruments in his version of Pachelbel’s “Canon In D” above.
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