Rainer Böhm (physicist)

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Rainer Helmut Böhm (* 1928 in Hirschberg ) is a German physicist and developer of the Dr. Böhm organ , an electronic home organ that you can build yourself.

Life

Rainer Böhm was born in Hirschberg in 1928. He completed his physics studies in Marburg in 1957 with a dissertation on the comparison and redevelopment of boiling point determination methods with a view to revising the German Pharmacopoeia and obtaining a doctorate.

Today he lives in the Canary Islands.

Organ building

At an early age he began experiments in building electronic organs . First he experimented with glow lamps, later with tube technology .

In the 1950s, Böhm published an article series of around 20 issues on the construction of electronic organs in the specialist journal Funkschau . In 1961 his book was published for the first time with the title Electronic Organs and their DIY . This was printed in seven, partly very heavily revised editions up to 1979.

He constructed the first transistor - and thus fully electronic organ in the world.

As early as 1956 he founded in Minden , the company Dr. Böhm and sold kits for electronic organs there, which could also be soldered and assembled by laypeople. The organs could later with further kits and effect devices such. B. the one-finger accompaniment Böhmat, developed in 1971, can be expanded.

The company Dr. Böhm was the first company to use printed circuits in organ building. With the organ of the type FnT he built the first three-manual electron organ in Europe, with the type GnT (1974) the first four-manual electron organ worldwide.

In 1982 he sold his company and from then on the brand was only called Böhm .

Fonts

  • Electronic organs and building them yourself . Franzis-Verlag, Munich (RPB 101).
  • Electronic organs and building them yourself . In: Funkschau . 1960, issues 2, 3, 4, 5, 7.

literature

  • Pioneer of the do-it-yourself organ . In: OKEY - magazine for organ and keyboard . No. 67, 2005, pages 58-60.

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