Today, digital instruments have mostly taken their place.
To a certain extent it was a reference point for later digital instruments.
Sometimes, the new digital instruments require playing in a style that resembles performance art.
Linde Werdelin is the only high end watch company producing digital instruments for skiing and diving.
It spoke of the future, and was the first production car to use computer management and (wildly unreliable) digital instruments.
Moreover, the performance advantages of the more expensive digital instruments may be waning.
One could argue that today's digital instruments enable musicians to "make sounds" more than at any other point in history.
The centre digital instruments are a distracting eye swivel away, however, and the display is too complex to take in at a glance.
This 4-manual digital instrument replaced a 2-manual pipe organ by Jardine, installed in 1951.
One is a historical tracker action pipe organ, the other is a digital instrument.