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Joel Sweeney invented the banjo by putting a neck on a drum and adding guitar strings, he patented the idea from slaves instruments and was the first white banjo player.
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Famous Pianist Robert Schumann is born in Germany
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Heinrich Stoelzel Invents the French Horn in Germany after adding a valve he applied to a Horn after being a prestigious member of a music club for many years.
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Francis Scott Key writes the Star Spangled after being inspired by a British Bombing of Fort McHenry during the War of 1812
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Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann Invents the Harmonica in Germany, although other inventors had the same design before him, he patented it.
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Christian Buschmann Invents the accordion.
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Ludwig Van Beethoven died
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Texas declares its independence from Mexico and enjoys its status as a country briefly before joining the United States.
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The first French Opera house in New Orleans, Louisiana is opened.
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Civil War breaks out in the United States of America
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In 1867 Hipp created an ‘Electromechanical Piano’. How this instrument operated is unclear, no contemporary records exist that describe the instrument in any detail but modern texts suggest that it was a ‘true’ electronic instrument, generating sounds through multiple dynamos:
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The opera “Carmen” by Georges Bizet is performed for the first time in Paris. The very same year, Bizet passes away
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Elisha Gray invents the Musical Telegraph, after his first invention is sniped from him by Alexander Graham Bell, the patentor of the telephone.
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Thomas Edison finally invents the Gramphone
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Alexander Alexandrov is born, leading to the eventual creation of the Soviet national anthem
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov composes “Flight of the Bumblebees” for the play “Tsar Saltan” from 1899-1900
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Queen of England and empress of India dies, letting king Edward VI.
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The first novel prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden
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The Wright brothers make the first successful airplane
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A war between the central and allied poweres
