Haack spent much of the sixties assembling various electronic devices, as well as appearing on talk shows playing the novel eccentric genius to a no doubt befuddled Middle America. In 1954, a tape sent off to the Juilliard School secured a scholarship at the prestigious institution, landing the still wide-eyed Haack in the Big Apple "with a chicken sandwich and sixty dollars". When bigger skies beckoned, he set his sights on the University of Alberta in Edmonton, settling on psychology after being rejected by the Faculty of Music for his poor notating skills. However, in the case of electronics pioneer Bruce Haack, a solitary childhood tucked away in the shadow of the Alberta Rockies merely stoked his knack for invention.Īs a teenager in the village of Rocky Mountain House, Haack tutored locals on the piano and organized sundry country and western bands for their listening pleasure.
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