“It just had this life in it that was just amazing to hear.” He was intrigued by the synthesizer sounds on Wendy Carlos’ 1968 album, “Switched-On Bach,” he said in a 2014 interview with the Red Bull Music Academy. After graduating, he worked on what was then a new technology - microprocessors, integrated circuits on a chip - at the aerospace company Lockheed, in the area of California that would become known as Silicon Valley. One of his college projects was working on a program to compose music, printing out the scores on a plotter. He played piano as a child and guitar and bass in rock bands, in high school and at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. He was very curious about how they used his instruments, how they made them sound.”ĭavid Joseph Smith was born in San Francisco on April 2, 1950, the son of Peter and Lucretia Papagni Smith. Justin Vernon, who records as Bon Iver, wrote on Twitter, “Dave Smith made the best keyboards ever … that’s saying it lightly.”ĭenise Smith said in an interview: “He loved the people who used his instruments. In the early 1980s, Smith collaborated with Ikutaro Kakehashi, the founder of the Roland instrument company, to create MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface), a shared specification that allows computers and instruments from diverse manufacturers to connect and communicate, making for countless sonic possibilities. Dre, Flying Lotus, Nine Inch Nails and James Blake, among many others. Over the next decades, instruments designed by Smith were embraced by Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Dr. It was used on 1980s hits by Michael Jackson, the Cars, Madonna, Peter Gabriel, Talking Heads, a-ha, Duran Duran, Genesis, the Cure and Daryl Hall & John Oates.
Smith introduced the first polyphonic and programmable synthesizer, the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, in 1978. Helena, California, had been in Detroit to attend the Movement Festival of electronic music, which ran from May 28 to 30, and died in a hospital.Ī statement from Smith’s company, Sequential, said, “He was on the road doing what he loved best in the company of family, friends and artists.” The cause was complications of a heart attack, said his wife, Denise Smith. A long list of bills should pop up on your screen.Dave Smith, a groundbreaking synthesizer designer, died on May 31 in Detroit. (Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the green X. Also look at this list of bills to see if anyone has your duplicate. Maybe someone will post your duplicate and you can arrange to put the set together.
If you find one, make sure to post the serial number in the comment section. Does anyone have the duplicate? Make sure to go through your change and star note collection to see if you have one of these bills.
(For example, a note with the serial number B0695 0840 * from Fort Worth and a note with the same serial number from D.C.) No sets like this have been sold yet, but a set could be worth thousands of dollars.Īnyway, I just found one of these star notes! The serial number is B 0587 1011 *.
Only a few pairs of the same serial numbers have been put together. There is a situation, however, where these bills can be worth much more than that. So, because of this mistake are these bills more valuable? Yes! In fact, while a normal $1 star note sells for about $3, a duplicate print run star note typically sells for $15 - $20.
To be clear, if your series 2013 $1 star note falls in these runs of serial numbers, your note is part of a duplicate print run: This is not supposed to happen, making these star notes extra collectable and more valuable. However, in 2016 the two printing facilities miscommunicated and the Fort Worth Facility printed these three runs of star notes for the New York “B†district :ī 0000 0001 * - B 0320 0000 * (June 2016)ī 0320 0001 * - B 0640 0000 * (June 2016)ī 0640 0001 * - B 0960 0000 * (July 2016)Īs you can see, some of these serial numbers overlap. printing facility printed 3 star note runs for the New York “B†district. How did such a thing happen? Well, in 2014 the Washington D.C.
made some sort of a communication error and ended up making star notes with duplicate serial numbers. However, in 2013, the printing facilities in Fort Worth and Washington D.C. I just found one in my change and thought it would make for an interesting blog post, so here it goes!Īs we all know, serial numbers on dollar bills are supposed to be unique. Hello, everyone! Today I will be talking about the series 2013 $1 bill duplicate print run star notes.