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The first person to attempt to create sounds electronically was an American inventor named Thaddeus Cahill. He invented a musical instrument called a Telharmonium in 1906. The Telharmonium used electric motors and telephone receivers to produce sound. However the Telharmonium was not very successful.
By 1920, a Russian scientist named Leon Theremin generated electronic sounds using two radio wave oscillators. It was played by moving the hands around its aerials. This altered the circuit tuning and produced sound varying according to the hand position. This electronic musical instrument was call a Theremin.
The forerunner of today’s synthesizers was built for acoustical research by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) at Princeton, New Jersey, in 1955. It consisted of punch paper tape, punched code activated electronic vacuum tube sound generators, filters and amplifiers. The music was recorder on tape.
Robert Moog, a pioneer in developing electronic synthesizers.
In the 1960s Robert Moog developed the Moog synthesizer with circuits based on transistors. Further developments in electronics brought the modern Synthesizers down to portable sizes.
FM Synthesizers of the 1980s was invented by Dr. John Chowing. The idea of sampling on which most modern synthesis is based was introduced by Peter Vogel, Kim Ryrie and Tony Furse with their Fairlight Computer Musical Instruments. The history of musical instruments would not be complete with the Synthesizers.
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