Synths | Crumar Performer - String/Brass Synthesizer (1979)

Crumar was an Italian electronic musical instrument manufacturer established by Mario Crucianelli in the late 1960s, which manufactured synthesizers and keyboards during the '70s and '80s.

Its name stands for "CRUcianelli and MARchetti", the names of Crucianelli and business partner Marchetti. The company appears to have grown out of the Crucianelli accordion company and also continued to manufacture accordions under both names.

Crumar users:

French Space Rock band, Rockets performed with many Crumar synths.

Italian band Pooh and composer Vangelis used the Crumar Compac in 1973.

Liam Howe of Sneaker Pimps used a Crumar Roadrunner 2 on their Splinter album (1999).

Keyboardist Derek Sherinian records with a Multiman-S.

Space jazz musician Sun Ra occasionally played the Crumar DS-2.

Duran Duran keyboardist Nick Rhodes used the Crumar Performer.

Pioneering Berlin School electronic musician Klaus Schulze used several Crumar instruments over his career, particularly on the albums Timewind (1975) and Moondawn (1976)

The album Dig It (1980) heavily features the Crumar GDS.

Composer Wendy Carlos used the GDS on the soundtrack of the film Tron (1982), where it was employed to augment badly recorded orchestra cues. She also used both it and its sister keyboard, the Synergy, on her album Digital Moonscapes (1984), programming all of the sounds used on it. Those sounds were later offered for the Synergy.