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Developed by Thaddeus Cahill. Transmitted over wires; it was heard on the receiving end of horn speakers.
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Leon Theremin was the inventor. The instrument was played by moving your hand near a pitch antenna
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Inventor was Frenchman Maurice Martenot, the instrument sounded very similar to the Theremin.
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Not much larger than an upright piano. It was built to mimic the sound of the pipe organ
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Les Paul invented the solid body electric guitar. Greatly impacted rock and roll music.
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Combined amplifier and two-way loudspeaker that projects the signal from an electric or electronic instrument
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Used drawbars to vary the timbre and contained a rotating speaker,
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A computer in the 1950s was not like the portable laptops we have today. They were big computers that sometimes took up an entire room.
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Max Mathews was the first to synthesize music on a computer.
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Designed by Herbert Belar and Harry Olson. Weighing about 3 tons and 20 feet wide.
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Robert Moog introduced the first commercially available modern synthesizer.
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Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys made history with the use of the Electro-Theremin in their song, Good Vibrations.
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Musical Instrument Digital Interface. MIDI is a system or “language” that allows electronic musical instruments and computers to send information, or “talk” to each other.
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Princeton University, founded by Dan Trueman and Perry Cook.
