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Telharmonium console by Thaddeus Cahill 1897. The Telharmonium (also known as the Dynamophone [1]) was an early electrical organ, developed by Thaddeus Cahill c. 1896 and patented in 1897. [2] [3] [4] The electrical signal from the Telharmonium was transmitted over wires; it was heard on the receiving end by means of "horn" speakers. [5]
Thaddeus Cahill (June 18, 1867 – April 12, 1934) was a prominent american inventor of the early 20th century. He is widely credited with the invention of the first electromechanical musical instrument, which he dubbed the telharmonium.
Thaddeus Cahill's gargantuan and controversial instrument, the Telharmonium, which began piping music to New York City establishments over the telephone system in 1897, predated the advent of electronics, yet was the first instrument to demonstrate the use of the combination of many different pure electrical waveforms to synthesize real-world ...
Thaddeus Cahill and the console of the Telharmonium, the world's first electromechanic instrument, first publicly demonstrated in Holyoke on March 16, 1906 [79] 1904 – The first Greek family settles in Holyoke. [8]: 231 February 11: Dr. Henry E. Chaput publishes the first edition of La Justice, Holyoke's longest running French-language newspaper.
1896 : Edwin S. Votey completes the first Pianola; 1898 : Valdemar Poulsen patents the Telegraphone; 1906 : Thaddeus Cahill introduces the Telharmonium to the public; 1906 : Lee De Forest invented the Triode, the first vacuum tube; 1910 : Utah Mormon and Nathaniel Baldwin construct the first set of headphones from an operator's headband and ...
Georges Marcel Charles Jenny (29 April 1913 – 23 September 1975) [1] was a French musician, poet, and electronic instrument builder. His best-known invention was an electronic keyboard instrument called the Ondioline (sometimes referred to as the Jenny Ondioline). [2]
The World Carillon Federation defines a carillon as an instrument of at least 23 cast bronze bells hung in fixed suspension, played with a traditional keyboard of batons, and tuned in chromatic order so that they can be sounded harmoniously together. It may designate instruments of 15 to 22 bells built before 1940 as "historical carillons". [5]
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