Magic Music From The Telharmonium Documentary 2

It was 1906. "Get Music on Tap Like Gas or Water" promised the headlines, and soon the public was enchanted with inventor Thaddeus Cahill's (1867-1934) electrical music by wire.

The Telharmonium was a 200-ton behemoth that created numerous musical timbres and could flood many rooms with sound.

Beginning with the first instrument, constructed in the 1890's, and continuing with the installation of the second instrument at Telharmonic Hall in New York, the rise and fall of commercial service, the attempted comeback of the third Telharmonium, and ending with efforts to find a home for the only surviving instrument in 1951, this documentary provides a definitive account of the first comprehensive music synthesizer.

You can get a full DVD of this documentary:
http://www.amazon.com/Magic-Music-Telharmonium-Reynold-Weidenaar/dp/B000JUBF0...

This clip was reposted from http://magneticmusic.ws/mmvideo.htm with the permission of Reynold Weidenaar.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Telharmonium
• Theremin
• Synths
• Vintage
• Synthesizer
• Buchla
• Moog
• Roland
• Yamaha
• Electronic
• Techno
• Cahill

[CaptainSiberia]

Ok, the special effects on the voices are pointless and annoying.

[AristoMC]

fuck i want to know how this thing really sounded like

[JJRaff18221882]

@CaptainSiberia  You said it!!!

[paulj0557]

So where are Isabella's Gramophone 'vocal & Telharmonium' 4:54 records? It would seem that a 200 ton instrument MIGHT have a 4 ounce recording sitting around somewhere?? Odd, very odd.

[paulj0557]

Man, it didn't sound like freakin rug rats I assure you. Ugh! And a little over use of the echoing dead. Other than that it's entertaining. I imagine the tones were nothing like this crappy sound track. It was analog!

[bluehazer]

@AristoMC Like a Hammond organ through crappy speakers.

[Fergophone]

A fascinating documentary.

[dronken]

many many thanx for this

[biggsebiggs]

To the poster and creator. You should talk to History Channel, no doubt they would give you a gig. This is knowledge everyone should procure.

[eyepatchinc]

thanks for posting this!