Electronic wind instruments date back to the 1930s and with the help of analog synthesizers and the development of MIDI they are hiding in plain sight on some of your favorite records. Although the first electroacoustic clarinet was developed by Benjamin F. Miessner in the 1930s, it is not surprising that the first commercially produced wind synthesizer was the Hohner Electra-Melodica in 1967. However, the first wind synthesizer to be widely used commercially was the Lyricon