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Telharmonium
Thaddeeus Cahill first patents his Telharmonium. -
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The Theremin
Leon Thermin invents an electronic instrument that was unique because you didn't touch it to play it, unlike all other traditional instruments. -
Ondes Martenot
Maurice Martenot debutes the instrument that he invented in Paris, France. The Ondes Martenot was similar to the Theremin in sound and technology, however not similar in the way it was played. -
Hammond Organ
Laurens Hammond creates a new electronic instrument that uses the same processes as the Telharmonium, but uses vacuum tubes to allow the instrument to be more practical in size. -
Les Paul
Les Paul invented the first solid body electric guitar. -
Heavenly Menagerie
Louis and Bebe Baron composed Heavenly Menagerie and it was the first electronic music for magnetic tape ever written in the United States. -
Computer Composition
The first song ever composed just for the computer was written. It was called the Illiac Suite for String Quartet. -
Bell Labs
Max Mathews was the fist person to synthesize music on a computer. This marked the beginning of computer music in America. -
Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center
Recently renamed the Computer Music Center, it was the first electronic music studio that was established in the United States. -
RCA Mark II
Herbert Belar and Harry Olson designed the first programmable electronic music synthesizer. It was 20 feet wide and weighed 3 tons. -
Electronic Music Studio
The first electronic music studio in the United States was establised. It was called the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. -
Singing Computer
Max Mathews was the first to program a computer to sing actual words through research he had done on speech patterns. -
Moog Synthesizer
Robert Moog introduced the first commercially available synthesizer. It was very popularly used in the modern music of the 1960s and 70s. -
MIDI
Meaning Musical Instrument Digital Interface, this is what companies like Yamaha and Roland decided would be an easier way of helping electronic music devices communicate with eachother. -
Laptop Orchestra
Dan Trueman and Perry Cook founded the first Laptop Orchestra at Princeton Univeristy.
