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Jean Baptiste de la Borde builds this keyboard instrument that uses static elctric charges to hit small metal clappers against bells
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A huge instrument capable of electrically creating and changing sounds. It was a precuror to the synthesizer, and weighed 400,000 pounds!
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Rudolph Wurlitzer's "one-man ubstitue for the orchestra" is introduced to the world.
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Leon Theremin (Lev Sergeyevich Termen) invents the Etherophone, later named the Theremin.
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Similar to the Theremin, but allowed more control over the timbre of the sound. Utilized a picture of a keyboard for more accurate movements to certain notes and allowed easier relation of pitches of the instrument to the chromatic scale.
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This technology was kept secret for many years, but then became commercially available for storing recorded music.
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Laurens Hammond develops this new instrument, utilizing vacuum tubes and the same tone-wheel process used in the Telharmonium.
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The first solid-body electric guitar designed by Les Paul.
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This was a product of the collboration of Lejaren Hillerand and Leonard Issacson.
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First programmable electronic syntheizer designed by Herbert Belar and Harry Olson.
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Morton subotick and Ramon Sender of the San Fransisco Tape Music Center hired Donald Buchla to design a new synthesizer for their studio.
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Robert Mood introduces the first commercially available modern synthesizer.
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The Beatles use tape loops tp record the song
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A simplified, compacted version of the original Moog. Designed for live performances.
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Thereminist extraordinaire accompanied by Nadia Reisenberg, recorded by Robert Moog.
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A 16-voice polyphonic digital synthesizer containing 32 internal memories ad ROM/RAM cartridge slot. Developed by John Chowning.
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Musical Instrument Digital Interface. This industry standard was deigned by manufacturers from Roland, Yamaha, Korg, and Kawai.
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The first of it's kind was founded by Don Trueman and Perry Cook at Princeton University. Many others, such as SLOrk (Stanford laptop orchestra), have since been founded.
