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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.
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 (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.
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]
A tonewheel or tone wheel is a simple electromechanical apparatus used for generating electric musical notes in electromechanical organ instruments such as the Hammond organ and in telephony to generate audible signals such as ringing tone. It was developed by Thaddeus Cahill for the telharmonium c. 1896 and patented in 1897. [1]
Rocky Mount Instruments (RMI) was a subsidiary of the Allen Organ Company, based in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, active from 1966 to 1982.The company was formed to produce portable musical instruments, and manufactured several electronic pianos, harpsichords, and organs that used oscillators to create sound, instead of mechanical components like an electric piano.
A number of instruments have been invented, designed, and made, that make sound from matter in its liquid state. This class of instruments is called hydraulophones . Hydraulophones use an incompressible fluid, such as water, as the initial sound-producing medium, and they may also use the hydraulic fluid as a user-interface.