The footage comes from the obscure Italian art movie "Umano Non Umano" (1969) produced by the Italian pop artist Mario Schifano.
According to rare instrument collector and musician Robbie Lee: "Keith is attempting to play what appears to be a custom-built modular synth," noting: "1969 was right on the cusp of commercial synths being available to rock musicians. Previously they were all at universities and government-sponsored experimental tape centers."
According to professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Kearney Sam Umland: "Apparently at the time the idea was that Mick was going to use the Moog synthesizer 'as his instrument in the band."
"As is well known, Mick Jagger did not take up the synthesizer," Umland went on, adding: "But, according to Pinch and Trocco, the Moog synthesizer originally purchased by the Stones lived on: "It was sold on to the Hansa by the Wall recording studio in Berlin, where in 1973 Christoph Franke of Tangerine Dream purchased it for $15,000. The Moog sequencer became the defining element of Tangerine Dream's sound, and the Moog became an enduring influence on the many waves of German electronic music in the 1970s.""
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A film video showing Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones attempting to play an early analog synth in 1969 has surfaced. 
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