EVI Collage Patchman Music Who is Nyle Steiner?
To Nyle Steiner is the inventor of the EWI and EVI. Nyle originally conceived of the concept of a brass-style electronic synthesizer in the 1960’s. He began prototyping the concept in the early 1970’s and in 1975 Nyle completed his first playable electric valve instrument- the ‘Steiner Horn’. A woodwind version was developed soon after. “I developed my own transducer using whatever- I tried a lot of things out. A lot of the main parts I had to build myself. The first one was just a switch. You blew and it turned on and off – just like pressing a key. Later I built a proportional transducer.” His instruments (the EVI and EWI) were well accepted by several top musicians including Michael Brecker. They were each hand made by Nyle Steiner himself. In the mid 1970’s, Nyle set up a small Salt Lake City Utah based synthesizer company named Steiner-Parker. The company produced various analog synths as well as the original Steiner EVI from approximately 1975 to 1980. In 1980, Nyle won the Linz
