"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.
Yep... this one officially beats dumpster diving for synths.
"In the shallows, we came across a bunch of pipefish. These guys are fun to play with. They seem to like divers so we hung out playing with them for a bit. As we started to make our way in, we ran across what looks to be a baby Fringehead or baby Sculpin. I am not quite sure so if anyone can make a proper ID, I would greatly appreciate it.
Overall, a GREAT dive!!!
Below are some highlights from the dive:" [link] No mention of the Roland MSQ-700, but the shot is in the set. via Jeff.
"This is a super rare stack of blueprint machanical drawing from the never release Oberheim Electronics OB8K. It was also called the Eclipse. This synth was supposed to be release around 1989 and was shown at NAMM, but the company when through a big change at that time and it never happened. It was the early precursor to the OB-MX.(which ended up being nothing like the OB8K.) There are various drawings for the sheet metal components, knobs, benders, top pressure formed plastic, etc"
"This is a super rare stack of source code listings from the mid to late 80's Oberheim Electronics products. I didn't go through all of it, but I saw stuff from the DPX1, and some of the Perf/X products like the arpeggiator."
YouTube via CMSpecial. "We countdown the best virtual synthesizers in the world, as voted for by Computer Music readers and forum users. Episode 2 features positions 5 to 1."
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