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Meet the “Telharmonium,” the First Synthesizer (and Predecessor to Muzak), Invented in 1897

Open Culture 26 March 2026 5h ago
Meet the “Telharmonium,” the First Synthesizer (and Predecessor to Muzak), Invented in 1897
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Before the New Year, we brought you footage of Russian polymathic inventor Léon Theremin demonstrating the strange instrument that bears his surname, and we noted that the Theremin was the first elect
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