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120 Years of Electronic Music

The history of electronic musical instruments from 1800 to 2019

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The 'Radio Organ of a Trillion Tones' (1931), The 'Polytone Organ' (1934) . Arnold Lesti, Leo Tiedemann & Fredrick Minturn Sammis. USA, 1934
The 'Hellertion' and The 'Heliophon'. Bruno Hellberger & Peter Lertes, Germany, 1929-1936
The 'Dynaphone', René Bertrand, France, 1927
'DIMI' & Helsinki Electronic Music Studio, Erkki Kurenniemi. Finland, 1961
The 'Luminaphone', Harry Grindell Matthews & Bernard.J.Lynes. UK, 1925
The 'Beauchamp Synthesiser' or 'Harmonic Tone Generator' James Beauchamp, USA, 1964
The 'Wave Organ'. Frank Morse Robb. Canada. 1927
The 'Composer-tron' Osmond Kendall. Canada, 1951
Bell Labs Hal Alles Synthesiser, Hall Alles, USA, 1976.

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- 1981: Sogitec 4X
- 1981: Yamaha GS1& GS2

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The singing arc

The singing arc effect; playing the Telharmonium through carbon arc lamps

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The singing arc

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Published inThe ‘Singing Arc’ William Duddell, UK, 1899

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