Florian Schneider’s Kraftwerk instruments put up for auction in US

<p>Sale includes late musician’s vocoders, flute, sunglasses and bike he rode in Tour de France video</p><p>He was a pioneer of electronic music whose band Kraftwerk redefined the sound of pop and influenced artists from David Bowie and New Order to Coldplay and Run-DMC.</p><p>Now the electronic equipment and musical instruments that Florian Schneider used to create some of the band’s best-known songs in the 1970s and 1980s could fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars when they are sold at auction next month.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/oct/22/florian-schneider-kraftwerk-equipment-to-go-on-sale-expected-to-fetch-up-to-650000">Continue reading...</a>