Magic Music From The Telharmonium Documentary

the beginning of electronic music genre

The Telharmonium .

Very interesting!

underself is correct. There are no recordings of this amazing instrument... Cahill was waaaay ahead of his time. I own this movie on DVD! :)

i like the devil's voices in the background

Ahhh...the first additive synthesizer utilizing electricity. Cool!

No sound recordings of the telharmonium exist unfortunately says the book ' Electronic and experimental music' by Thom Holmes. who knows? maybe one day one will be unearthed?

Well, I can't be fooled...that's most likely a Yamaha FM instrument emulating all the Telharmonium sounds...too perfect and clean for a tonal device 100 years old. Still, a great bit of history! Thank you.

interesting and cool music^^

from what i've seen...because the wheels had square thooth's the probably sound like a square waver form.. but early experiemnts might have used mechanical gear whaeels ( gears from machine industry) whish has a triangular a-llike thot's making triangular sound waves... all camtured from the "pickup coils of course

later... the hammond organ usd a similar system.. but the hammod used varius tipes os tooth tipes one of them like a round wave a-like... making the sound sinewave.. mutch like a pipe organ... and thats what the hammond organ does perfectly.. and outher sound of course