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In 1625, a new instrument was built that sounded like an enesemble of bowed strings.
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In 1897, Thaddeus Cahill invented the Telharmonium. The Telharmonium had a keyboard and a console that allowed sounds to be mixed and filtered.
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In 1920, Leon Theremin invented the Theremin. The Theremin was an instrument with antennas that could be played without touching it.
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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.
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In Germany in 1928, Magnetic Tape was invented to record sound. The invention was kept secret for a while due to World War II.
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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.
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Turntablism is using sounds to create music using turntables or phonograph.Turntablism started a long time ago and it is still commonly used today.
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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.
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In 1950, Laurens Hammond invented the Hammond B3. The Hammond B3 was created with a Leslie speaker and it used drawbars to vary timbre.
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In 1951, Louis and Bebe Barron made a composition called "Heavenly Menagerie".
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The Columbia- Princeton Electronic Music Center was the first electronic music studio established in the United States.
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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.
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The San Francisco Tape Music Center was the first electronic music studio on the west coast.
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In 1964, Robert Moog invented the Moog Synthesizer. This was the first commercially available modern synthesizer.
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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.
