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New Instrument Built
In 1625, a new instrument was built that sounded like an enesemble of bowed strings. -
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History of American Music Review TImeline
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Inventing the Telharmonium
In 1897, Thaddeus Cahill invented the Telharmonium. The Telharmonium had a keyboard and a console that allowed sounds to be mixed and filtered. -
Inventing the Theremin
In 1920, Leon Theremin invented the Theremin. The Theremin was an instrument with antennas that could be played without touching it. -
Inventing the Ondes Martenot
In 1928, Maurice Martenot invented the Ondes Martenot. The Ondes Martenot was similar to the Theremin but it also had a picture of a keyboard on it. -
Inventing Magnetic Tape
In Germany in 1928, Magnetic Tape was invented to record sound. The invention was kept secret for a while due to World War II. -
Inventing the Hammond Organ
In 1929, Laurens Hammond invented the Hammond Organ. The Hammond Organ and the Telharmonium used the same tone-wheel process, but the Hamond Organ was smaller. -
Turntablism
Turntablism is using sounds to create music using turntables or phonograph.Turntablism started a long time ago and it is still commonly used today. -
Creating Musique Concréte
Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry used a phonograph record to record train sounds. They called it Music Concréte because they used sounds and arranged them into music. -
Inventing the Hammond B3
In 1950, Laurens Hammond invented the Hammond B3. The Hammond B3 was created with a Leslie speaker and it used drawbars to vary timbre. -
First Electronic Music for Magnetic Tape Written in the US
In 1951, Louis and Bebe Barron made a composition called "Heavenly Menagerie". -
Creating the Columbia- Princeton Electronic Music Center
The Columbia- Princeton Electronic Music Center was the first electronic music studio established in the United States. -
Inventing the RCA Mark II Sound Synthesizer
In 1958, Herbert Belar and Harry Olson invented the RCA Mark II Sound Synthesizer. This synthesizer let computers create music electronically without splicing together individual sounds. -
Creating the San Francisco Tape Music Center
The San Francisco Tape Music Center was the first electronic music studio on the west coast. -
Inventing the Moog Synthesizer
In 1964, Robert Moog invented the Moog Synthesizer. This was the first commercially available modern synthesizer. -
MIDI
MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) was created in 1983 so electronic musical instruments and computers could send information to each other. MIDI was created to connect or control synthesizers and for linking computers to synthesizers.
