![]() ![]() Gray was inspired to investigate electro-acoustic effects after witnessing his nephew playing with his uncle’s equipment. Instead, he goes down in history as the accidental creator of one of the first electronic musical instruments. 1961: DIMI & Helsinki Electronic Music StudioĮlisha Gray demonstrating the results of his ‘bathtub experiments’ using a variable electric current to vibrate a silver plate fixed to the instrument’s body.Įlisha Gray would have been known to us as the inventor of the telephone if Alexander Graham bell hadn’t got to the patent office one hour before him.1931: Radio Organ of a Trillion Tones, Polytone Organ & Singing Keyboard.'Photo-Electric Marimba' or 'Marimbalite'.'Clavecin Électrique' or 'Clavessin Électrique'.Freddie Williams & Tom Kilburn, United Kingdom, 1951. The 'Singing Arc', William Duddell, UK, 1899.'Sound-Producing Device' Melvin Linwood Severy, USA.The 'Electronic Keyboard Oboe', 'the Elastic Tuning Organ' and 'Electronic Keyboard Drum'. ![]() The Wurlitzer 'Side Man' Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, USA, 1959.The 'Choralcelo' Melvin Linwood Severy & George.B.the 'Clavier à Lampes' or 'Piano Radio Èlectrique' Joseph Armand Marie Givelet, France. ![]()
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