ARP Instruments
ARP Instruments, Inc. was a Lexington, Massachusetts[1] manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, founded by Alan Robert Pearlman[2][3][a] in 1969. It created a popular and commercially successful range of synthesizers throughout the 1970s before declaring bankruptcy in 1981. The company earned a reputation for producing excellent sounding, innovative instruments and was granted several patents for the technology it developed.
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Alan Pearlman was an engineering student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts in 1948 when he foresaw the coming age of electronic music and synthesizers. He later wrote: