Background
At the age of 12, encouraged by his father’s clients and colleagues, Shelton Leigh Palmer (known to his friends as “Shelly”) started his career as a professional musician. He began by working as a sideman (Saxophone, Clarinet & Flute) for various society orchestras around the New York metropolitan area.
Palmer’s lifelong quest to combine art and technology began after being introduced to Robert Moog and Mr. Moog’s Electronic Music Synthesizer at a meeting of the National Association of Music Merchants show in Chicago.
By the time he was a teenager, Palmer had taught himself enough electronics to build several computer-controlled musical instruments of his own, converting his parents’ music room and den into an 8-track recording studio in the process.
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