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The 'Musical Telegraph' or 'Electro-Harmonic Telegraph', Elisha Gray. USA, 1874
The 'Orgue des Ondes' Armand Givelet & Edouard Eloi Coupleux, France. 1929
the 'Clavier à Lampe' (1927), 'Automatic Electrical Musical Instrument' (1929) and 'Orgue Radioélectrique'. Joseph Armand Marie Givelet, France. 1927
The 'Ether Wave Violin' or 'Aetherwellengeige' Erich Zitzmann-Zirini, Germany 1934
The 'Subharchord', Gerhard Steinke & Ernst Schreiber , Germany (DDR), 1960
The 'Variophone' Yevgeny Sholpo. Russia, 1932
The 'Choralcelo' Melvin Linwood Severy & George.B. Sinclair. USA, 1909
The Wurlitzer 'Side Man' Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, USA, 1959
The 'Electronic Keyboard Oboe', 'the Elastic Tuning Organ' and 'Electronic Keyboard Drum'. Ivor Darreg. USA 1936.
'Sound-Producing Device' Melvin Linwood Severy, USA. 1913

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Gernsback’s Practical Electrics magazine March 1924 describing the Staccatone

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