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120 Years of Electronic Music
URL: http://120years.net/

Description:
"This site charts the development of electronic musical instruments from 1870 to 1990. For the purposes of this project electronic musical instruments are defined as instruments that synthesise sounds from an electronic source." Describes several dozen instruments, including the musical telegraph, theremin, superpiano, chombichord, and trillion tone organ. Some descriptions include images. From an enthusiast.

Author:
Crab, Simon

Extra Keywords
synthesize

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Electronic music
Electronic musical instruments

LII Database Information:
Record 10378 created by John Gallwey on 10/26/2000
Last modification on 09/04/2008
Published: 10/26/2000  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/10378