The article linked to above mentions Bode’s influence on Bob Moog and his stand-alone units as used by Wendy Carlos and others. Of course the Bode ring modulator and frequency shifter were also packaged as Moog modules.
One thing that’s not mentioned is that toward the end of his life Bode was working on a `barber-pole’ infinite phaser - anticipating the module later developed by Don Buchla. It got into production, I believe (at least I’ve seen an advert for a production model dating from not long before Bode died). An attempt by a former collaborator of Bode to revive production a couple of years ago didn’t work out, but as a result I recorded a piece of music using samples from Bode’s original demo recording (Bode 1 on my website).
The name ‘Bode’ is entrenched in electronic music history, some of his designs are attached to his name just as the ladder filter is always going to be known as the Moog filter. A great man and a great legacy.
The exhibit is a the Estey Organ Museum in Brattleboro, Vermont. It’s open to the public on Saturdays and Sundays, from 1:00 to 4:00 pm, during the summer 2010 and 2011. More information about the exhibit is available on this recently-launched Harald Bode WordPress blog:
The exhibit has photographs of Bode’s major instruments. Facsimiles of his notebooks (including circuit diagrams) in bound format are available to be browsed through. There’s also an interactive display on a computer where you can listen to brief excerpts of pieces using all of his instruments except for the Warbo Formant Organ. Looks like there are no surviving sound examples of that one instrument. The Estey AS-1 electronic organ, designed by Bode and built in Brattleboro by Estey technicians in the 1950’s is also there.