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Electronic Music instrument, 1924

The Staccatone was invented by Hugo Gernsback and Clyde J. Fitch. Gernsback promoted it as a do-it-yourself project for amateur electronics enthusiasts. The instrument had a single vacuum tube oscillator controlled by a crude switch-based 16 note ‘keyboard’. The switch-based control gave the note a staccato tone.

 

-- 120 Years of Electronic Music. Net

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Uploaded on September 10, 2014
Taken sometime in 1924