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Dalton_Man321
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10 Dec 2010, 2:49 am

Share you favorites.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbymTki8LvQ[/youtube]
This was was super hard to believe it was a SYNTHESIZER from 1941. It sounds exactly like a violin.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy9UBjrUjwo[/youtube]
I think the Ondes Martenot has a very beautiful sound.



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10 Dec 2010, 10:04 am

Thadius Cahill invented probably the earliest synthesizer called the Telharmonium. The earliest cable entertainment service - all the way back in the 1890's!
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10 Dec 2010, 10:09 am

Leon Theremin developed the next synthesizer. It took a great deal of skill and slight of hand to play with the proper finesse.
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10 Dec 2010, 10:10 am

Great find on the first one. I was interested in what it could possibly sound like.

Theremins are awesome. It would be cool to have one.



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09 Feb 2014, 7:49 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCyiDaM3boc[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-aQwrXH4Ow[/youtube]