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120 Years of Electronic Music

The history of electronic musical instruments from 1800 to 2019

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The 'Trautonium' Dr Freidrich Trautwein. Germany, 1930
Helmholtz Sound Synthesiser. Max Kohl. Germany, 1905
The 'Welte Licht-Ton-Orgel' or 'Phototone Organ'. Edwin Welte, Germany, 1936
The 'Ondes-Martenot'. Maurice Martenot, France, 1928
The ‘Neo Violena’ Vladimir A Gurov, V.I. Volynkin & Lucien M. Varvich. Russia 1927.
The 'Superpiano' and 'Symphonium'. Emerich Spielmann, Austria, 1928
The 'Wave Organ'. Frank Morse Robb. Canada. 1927.
The 'Cellule Photo Electrique' or 'Cellulophone'. Pierre Toulon & Krugg Bass, France, 1927.
The Keyboard Electric Harmonium, Lev Sergeyevich Termen, USA/Russia, 1926.
The 'Staccatone'. Hugo Gernsback & C.J.Fitch. USA, 1923

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figure 2. Detail view of one of the valve oscillators (photo R.Linz)

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Published inThe ‘Free Music Machine’. Percy Grainger & Burnett Cross, USA/Australia , 1948

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