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120 Years of Electronic Music

The history of electronic musical instruments from 1800 to 2019

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The 'Musical Telegraph' or 'Electro-Harmonic Telegraph', Elisha Gray. USA, 1874
The 'Pianorad', Hugo Gernsback, Clyde.J.Fitch, USA, 1926
The 'Staccatone'. Hugo Gernsback & C.J.Fitch. USA, 1923
'Dr Kent's Electronic Music Box' Dr Earle Kent, USA, 1951
The 'Hugoniot Organ'. Charles-Emile Hugoniot . France, 1921.
The 'Sonothèque'. Léonce Lavallée, France. 1936
'La Croix Sonore' Nicolai Obukhov. Russia - France, 1929-1934
The Jowiphon. Hans Joachim Winckelmann. Germany 1935
'Electromechanical Piano' Matthias Hipp, Switzerland,1867

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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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