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Hugh Banton (Hugh Robert Banton) was born on 19 April, 0049 in Yeovil, Somerset, England, is a British musician. Discover Hugh Banton's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

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Occupation Musician, organ builder
Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 19 April, 1949
Birthday 19 April
Birthplace Yeovil, Somerset, England
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1949

Hugh Robert Banton (born 25 April 1949) is a British musician and electronic organ builder, most widely known for playing organ and keyboards with the group Van der Graaf Generator.

Banton was born in April 1949 in Yeovil, Somerset, into a musical family.

His father played the piano, his mother regularly sang along to music on the radio, and two uncles were church organists.

He started playing the piano at age four, and began taking formal lessons at age seven.

He was influenced by the family classical record collection and by music heard on Radio Luxembourg.

In his teens he studied classical piano and organ while attending Silcoates School in Yorkshire under Dr Percy G. Saunders, the organist at Wakefield Cathedral.

He continued to enjoy both rock 'n' roll and classical music.

After leaving school, he trained as a television engineer with the BBC in Evesham, and subsequently in London.

1968

He joined Van der Graaf Generator in May 1968 when the group (then consisting of just Peter Hammill and Judge Smith) moved from Manchester to London.

In performance with this group he played Farfisa and Hammond organs, adding a wide range of effects including phasing, tape echo, distortion and overdrive.

1970

In 1970 he took over the bass player role within the group, using the organ foot pedals.

He also played bass guitar on recordings.

He modified his Hammond E112 organ to allow separate amplification, with different effects, of the output from the two keyboards and pedalboard, and he devised a stereo reverb unit.

1975

In 1975 he began building a custom organ based on a Hammond but with added electronic oscillators to approximate a full pipe organ sound.

Electronics, particularly the development of organs, have been a parallel interest since his early teens.

1976

Banton changed career at the end of 1976 and left Van der Graaf Generator to work on the development, design and installation of electronic church organs for Makin Organs, a company in Oldham, Lancashire, where he became Technical Director.

1992

In 1992, he set up his own company, The Organ Workshop at Lymm in Cheshire, and latterly in Evesham, Worcestershire.

His organs use digitally generated waveforms to emulate the sound of pipe organ stops, and a recent specialty is combining digital organ stops within conventional wind-driven pipe organs, to create a larger hybrid instrument.

His company have installed organs of all sizes both in the UK and abroad.

2005

Since the reunion of Van der Graaf Generator in 2005, he has regularly contributed to concerts and recordings with former members; they have continued as a trio with Peter Hammill and Guy Evans.

2017

Commencing in 2017, Banton has been developing a PC software project - HB3 - which further researches the real-time production of pipe-organ sounds by digital means.