While much of Frankfurt Musikmesse 2009 was caught on video, sometimes it’s a single picture that can paint a thousand words. So here’s an entire book’s worth: a gallery of gear, rock stars and, er… pizza.

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Our Frankfurt-based reporters are back in Blighty, and they’ve brought back the highlights from the final day of Musikmesse 2009.

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Welcome to day three of Frankfurt Musikmesse 2009! After a sleepless night of video editing and over-peppered pizza (don’t ask) we’ve managed another glorious lap of the show floor.

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MusicRadar’s Frankfurt-based colleagues have been up all night… editing video.

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Hall 5 here in extremely sunny Frankfurt is a treasure trove of tech goodness. We took the chance to hook up with the good folks at Akai who gave us the skinny on their hottest new products for Musikmesse 2009: the MPD18 USB pad controller and the Miniak virtual analogue synth. Check out the vocoder action on that!

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If you thought day one’s highlights were impressive, you might want to sit down before you read on.

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Day one at Frankfurt is already a haze of wires, guitar strings and blinking LEDs… so it’s a good job we filmed the best bits.

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After a short flight, a failed search for a Frankfurter and a brief encounter with a glass of Weissbier, Musikmesse has lived up to its reputation yet again. It’s the world’s leading music trade fair and the music making gear on display is mouth watering.

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Good news for fans of ‘tangible instruments’: the Reactable, which enables you to make music by pushing pucks around a luminous translucent table, is going into production.

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We only heard about Teenage Engineering’s Operator-1 a couple of days ago. But such was our excitement at the prospect of a brand-new and possibly-brilliant mini-synth that we made stopping by their booth in Frankfurt a priority.

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