Electronic

History of Electronic: Everything began in the 2nd century, BC. when was invented the Hydraulis by Ktesibios, also was considered the Greek Aeolian harp as the first automatic instrument. In that time also Pythagorus discovered numerical ratios corresponding to intervals of the musical scale.

In short had many advances to develop the music, has different permutations of pitch and rhythmic values. So if there were five durations and seven pitches, the pitches were lined up with the durations.

Electronic Musical Instruments:

Instrument	Date	Inventor	Country
1700
Clavecin Électrique	1759	Jean Baptiste Delaborde	France

1800
The Electro-mechanical Piano	1867	Msr Hipps	Switzerland
The Musical Telegraph	1876	Elisha Grey	USA
The Telharmonium	1897	Thaddeus Cahill	USA
The Singing Arc	1899	William Duddel	UK

1900
The Choralcelo	1909	Melvin Severy	USA
The "Intonarumori"	1913	Luigi Russolo	Italy
The Audion Piano	1915	Lee De Forest	USA
The Optophonic Piano	1916	Vladimir Rossiné	Soviet Union
The Theremin	1917	Leon Termen	Soviet Union

1920
The Sphäraphon	1921	Jörg Mager	Germany
The Staccatone	1923	Hugo Gernsbak	Germany
KurbelSphäraphon	1923	Jörg Mager	Germany
The Pianorad	1926	Hugo Gernsbak	Germany
The Dynaphone	1927	René Bertrand	France
The Celluphone	1927	Krugg Bass &	France
The Celluphone	1927	Pierre Toulon	France
Sphaerophon	1928	Jörg Mager	Germany
The Ondes-Martenot	1928	Maurice Martenot	France
The Superpiano	1928	E. Spielmann	Austria
Piano Radio-Électrique	1929	A.Givelet & E.Coupleaux	France
The Givelet	1929	A.Givelet & E.Coupleaux	France
The Sonorous Cross	1929	Nikolay Obukhov	France
The Hellertion	1929	B.Helberger & P.Lertes	Germany

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