A specialist account places Böhmat Solist 78 after the Böhmat S. Its original introduction date remains unestablished.
The machine in the record
Saturday Night Palsy / “Doctor, I Presume”.
Sean Douglas identifies a Dr. Böhm Böhmat 78 in the production note for “Doctor, I Presume”. It is a single-release equipment credit, with no inflated claim about every sound, but it gives this elusive machine a straightforward place in a musician’s own working record.
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The machine keeps turning up.
Reported association
Honey / Welle: Erdball / Die Funkhausgruppe — Mono-poly
An album note reproduced by a retailer credits Honey of Welle: Erdball with laying down the first sequences on a Dr. Böhm Böhmat 78 before Herr Brandt added guitar.
Read Die Funkhausgruppe — Mono-poly album note ↗Before the guitar
Album notes for Die Funkhausgruppe’s Mono-poly, reproduced by CCMusic, credit Honey of Welle: Erdball with laying down the first sequences on a Dr. Böhm Böhmat 78 before Herr Brandt added guitar. The accompaniment system becomes an initial musical layer for another musician to build on.
A later Böhmat
Beatboxer’s specialist account calls the Solist 78 a successor to the Böhmat S, with a more developed accompaniment system. That is the family connection behind the name; the number 78 alone does not date its manufacture.
Sources
The visual archive
Further visual evidence.
Sources for images shown earlier (3)
- Dr. Böhm Böhmat Solist 78, Beatboxer specimen ↗
- Saturday Night Palsy / Sean Douglas — “Doctor, I Presume” ↗
Release date not stated on source page · Saturday Night Palsy / Sean Douglas / release artwork via Bandcamp · Official Bandcamp release-page artwork (Open Graph image) - Die Funkhausgruppe — Mono-Poly ↗
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