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The Telharmonium (also known as the Dynamophone) was an early electronic musical instrument, developed by Thaddeus Cahill in 1897. The Telharmonium was intended to be listened to using telephone receivers. Like the later Hammond organ, the Telharmonium used tonewheels to generate musical sounds as electrical signals by additive synthesis. An authoritative history of the Telharmonium is the book Magic Music from the Telharmonium by Reynold Weidenaar, Scarecrow Press, 1995. Weidenaar produced a... full article at wikipedia
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