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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.
Electrophones are instruments in which sound is generated by electrical means. While it is not officially in any published form of the Hornbostel–Sachs system, and hence, lacking proper numerical subdivisions, it is often considered a fifth main category.
The Thing was designed by Soviet Russian inventor Leon Theremin, [7] best known for his invention of the theremin, an electronic musical instrument.In Russian, the device is called Эндовибра́тор (endovibrator).
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The Hornbostel–Sachs system of musical instrument classification groups all instruments which make sound primarily by way of electrically driven oscillators. Though Sachs divided the category of electrophones into three distinct subcategories, specifying these three as :
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 copper wire.