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00:00Now you may be thinking that's an organ, but that's really a guitar, and you're listening to the music of Don Tavel dear Don
00:07This is me
00:11You've missed a lot over the years
00:14She was three months old, but he had this accident
00:18Our family told me you were this genius musician and invented the synthesizer. I grew up telling everybody he invented
00:26This synthesizer
00:27With his thoughts he controlled the music and the lights. He worked with Stevie Wonder. He was kaleidoscopic
00:34Did he ever do anything wrong?
00:37Those that knew him said, you know, oh, I don't think he ever would hurt himself
00:42I wasn't so sure. Dear mom and dad
00:45I'm writing this letter at age 35 to tell you how unloved I felt for my entire life
00:49I don't want to relive all this stuff, do I?
00:53I've never heard of any of that. Nobody has ever told me those that side of Don before. Maybe deep down
00:59I always knew the resonator would lead me to you
01:02You should get as many people to play with this thing as possible. See what it sparks
01:11It's almost human. I do remember playing it. He had arranged to do a demo for Paul McCartney
01:16Everybody's learning right now how someone's brain works
01:20The resonator is the vehicle but the mission itself is her dad
01:27She want to know him
01:29So you knew that he sang that song, but I didn't know it was for me
01:34Rather than trying to recreate the past
01:36Because he was always wanting to move on and absorb the future and so maybe you should put it in software
01:43I'd known my whole life that it was stashed away in a box somewhere in the attic an
01:47Abandoned mystery for 25 years, but maybe it was finally time for me to go find it