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120 Years of Electronic Music

The history of electronic musical instruments from 1800 to 2019

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The Jowiphon. Hans Joachim Winckelmann. Germany 1935
'Electromechanical Piano' Matthias Hipp, Switzerland,1867
'Clavecin Électrique' . Jean-Baptiste Delaborde, France. 1759.
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

Pre 1800
1800 – 1900
1900 – 1920
1920 – 1930
1930 – 1940
1940 – 1950

1950–1960
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1980-1990
- 1981: Sogitec 4X
- 1981: Yamaha GS1& GS2

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Published inThe ‘Groupe de Recherches Musicales’ Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry & Jacques Poullin, France 1951

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