SMEM - Swiss Museum & Center for Electronic Music Instruments

22/08/2026

Welcome to the SMEM ! (Swiss Museum of Electronic Music) 🎹🎶

We are the biggest synthesizer museum of the world, and we are looking for you 🫵🏼

Nostalgic for the sound pf the past ? No problem, we got you ! With more than 5000 Instruments in our collection, we let you stay for an afternoon in our paradise. In need of vintage sounds to record ? We also got you, you can record or play a few mystic instruments from our collection, like this Roland D-50.

You have no excuses left, come visit us NOW 🫶🏼

22/08/2026

16/08/2026

New in the collection smem _ Doepfer LMK3 Midi Masterkeyboard Piano, 1990 _ Info smem: https://www.smemmusic.ch/en/doepfer-lmk3-midi-masterkeyboard-piano _ Thank you, Sibylle Progin

12/08/2026

Collection smem _ Selmer TruVoice Little Giant Portable P.A. System, 1935/1937 _ The guitar and microphone amplifier with the serial number L.G. 1242 is certainly from the first series of the Little Giant. It was manufactured while Truvoice Ltd. was based at Davis Buildings, 12 Moor Street in London, from 1934 to 1937. We are not aware of any other examples from the 1930s at this time. Does anyone have any further information?

10/08/2026

New in the collection smem _ Lancia 1044P Electronic Analog Combo Organ, 1970 _ A very simple Italian organ from the early days of transistorized instruments, with a few preset timbres, some vibrato, and some bass. _ smem info: https://www.smemmusic.ch/en/lancia-1044p-electronic-analog-combo-organ-0 _ Thank you, Klemens Niklaus Trenkle

06/08/2026

New in the collection smem _ Elka X 50 Analog Organ and Synthesizer, 1981 _ The instrument reproduces the sound of the Hammond tonewheel organ. It features a 61-key keyboard (five octaves, C to C) with a light spring-contact action and 9 drawbars (16', 5 1/3', 8', 4', 2 2/3', 2', 1 3/5', 1 1/3', 1') for additive sound shaping. _ Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0ynj-EFzVg _ Info smem: https://www.smemmusic.ch/en/elka-x-50-analog-organ-and-synthesizer _ Thank you, Klemens Trenkle

03/08/2026

New in the collection smem _ Roland JX-10 Analog Polyphonic Synthesizer, 1986 _ The JX-10 was Roland's last analog synthesizer. It is a 12-voice, digitally controlled synthesizer with analog sound generation. The MKS-70 is the identical rack-mount version. _ Infos auf smem: https://www.smemmusic.ch/en/roland-jx-10-analog-polyphonic-synthesizer _ Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIMPMVZkCd0 Thank you very much, Laurent

30/07/2026

New in the collection smem _ Technics SX-WSA1 Acoustic Modeling Synthesis, 1995 _ The SX-WSA1 is Technics’ flagship Acoustic Modeling synthesizer/workstation. Instead of relying only on static samples, its core method combines a sampled driver with a DSP resonator model. It is said that only 600 units were made. _ Thank you, Toralf Lenz _ Demo: https://www.google.com/search?q=Technics+SX-WSA1+Acoustic+Modeling+Synthesis&client=safari&hs=XggV&sca_esv=38d28d298ce520d7&rls=en&udm=7&sxsrf=APpeQnudeuk6uM9H6XIw7dquxMDnHq0ilA:1785426976798&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiTt-Xl4fqVAxVAnP0HHZmhMjkQ0pQJegQIBRAL&biw=1374&bih=1359&dpr=2 =ive&vld=cid:8b50252e,vid:7DBgaSwPg7M,st:0

26/07/2026

Welcome to the SMEM ! (Swiss Museum of Electronic Music) 🎹🎶

We are the biggest synthesizer museum of the world, and we are looking for you 🫵🏼

Nostalgic of the sound of the past ? No problem, we got you ! With more than 5000 Instruments in our collection, we let you stay for an afternoon in our paradise. In need of vintage sounds to record ? We also got you, you can record or play a few mystic instruments from our collection, like this OB-8 from 1983 (Jump - Van Halen).

You have no excuses left, come visit us NOW 🫶🏼

24/07/2026

Meet the Formanta Manual Synthesizer!
This rare instrument has been thoroughly documented and captured by our intern !