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The Guardian // Entertainment // Music

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

Wednesday 22nd October 2025, 1:18PM

Sale includes late musician’s vocoders, flute, sunglasses and bike he rode in Tour de France videoHe 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.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. Continue reading...

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