The First Synth Was Bigger Than Your House - The Telharmonium
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Ever wondered what the first synth was like? Well its a lot older than you think, and it was bigger than your house. The Telharmonium (Also known as the Dynamophone) created additive synthesis before amplifiers were ever invented. If was amazing, and you should think so too!
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When I think of synthesis, I think of Leon Termen. He never gets enough credit for having made the first electronic instrument. Synthesis was created in the Soviet Union, and this is what inspired Bob Moog, many years later. Being that said, today I learned about the Telharmonium and I was hoping to hear how it sounded like 😢
Nikolai Voinov's y el Variophone de inicios de 1930 podía hacer piezas casi tan avanzadas como el Chiptune
Surprised that Mr. Cahill lived as long as he did - I'd have had a massive coronary upon receipt of that first electric bill!!!
hahaha so true!!
The Telharmonium wasn't powered by the grid. It used 12 electric generators (or "dynamos" as they called them then). The only expense was fuel.
FASCINATING dive into synths - and even considering the iMovie, the presentation still drew me in!
Thank you so much!! Means a lot. And I just got better software so hopefully production value goes up haha
You can tell how much you've always put into your videos. Even though these older ones dont have many views, they're highly informative and very entertaining. Have been subscribed for some years now - always enjoyed it!!
The movie "Forbidden Planet" used the telharmonium in its soundtrack. It sounds a lot like a theremin.
Also a weird coincidence. Volleyball was invented just a few blocks away and just a few weeks earlier than the telharmonium.
But how if this fine young man is saying that there were no recordings of this devil´s device ever made, how did it ended in the movie? I just saw it today for the first time, by the way and just by a recommendation because of the soundtrack 🤩
For anyone who are wondering, this video has a few incorrect information. The Telharmonium first was built in 1901 and then the first model sold was released in 1906 and used dynamos, as the vaccum tube hadn't been invented yet. The machine was actually patented in 1897.
I love that Andrew huang made his way into the history of synths
Every time I patch my Telharmonic I remember the Telharmonium…
Good content !
Can’t believe this video got less than 1k views !
haha yeah small channel so small views at the moment, it'll get there at some point! :)
Amazing video mate! Great information.
Thanks so much!
nice video, quick note, you can't calculate the time that you can power a house with from a Watt value (since Watt is an power measure not an energy mesure).
Noted! Thanks for the info :)
Thanx so much for sharing!
I had heard of the telharmonium, long, long, long ago, and then was reminded of it from 'Warehouse 13.'
I was curious as to the actual sound. Someone said that the little-to-big calliopes at circuses and side shows were what it sounded like. As massive as this beastie was, the sound had to be richer, don'tcha think?
Who knows, I imagine it must have sounded massive and haunting, wish I could've heard it!
@@AudioHaze Me, too, my friend, me, too.
I believe the creation of electric power transmission in the early 1800s could have inspired the idea of musical synthesizers since Morse code emitted a signal or frequency. That was before AC which produces an audio hum frequency twice that of the voltage cycle
so fascinating. great video. thank you
This is an amazing video, you are agreat communicator!
I want to know what it sounded like. There are recordings of Winston Churchill from the 1940's but no recordings of an instrument that existed until 1962?
It sucks right! I would kill to know what it sounded like
@@AudioHaze It would be interesting to rebuild one but I am sure it probably would not be allowed because of the energy it took to run it, even if the energy was verified renewable it would probably take too much. I am not sure what the maximum energy allowed that a musical instrument can use is.
It could probably be recreated on a smaller scale, but would require amplification, and if it had to be machined instead of something like 3d printed it would be ungodly expensive. Tbf, this would all be for an instrument that would sound (probably)remarkably like a hammond with no leslie lol
@@iloverush123 I imagine it would sound similar to a Hammond organ. It worked on exactly the same principle, only after the advent of the amplifier, the cogs (oscillators) didn't need to be so huge.
@@emilypowell1405lol nobody is going to arrest anyone for having a synth that uses too much power unless you started blowing the grid
Reasonable attempt, but . . . The telharmonium did not precede speakers -- speakers had been around at least since the invention of the telephone, in 1876. The entire sine wave is the sound wave, not just the positive peaks. You don't need 88 pitches to have a synthesizer. The "h" is pronounced in the word "harmonic" -- if you're speaking English. A "traditional" sine wave?
A telephone receiver of the time didn't have a "speaker" the way we think of them today. It was just a small diaphragm. It could reproduce sound at low voltages that were audible when pressed up against your ear, but it couldn't be scaled up to fill a room with sound. That would require an amplifier, which wasn't invented until 1906, with the advent of the vacuum tube.
You pack your things, food water knife handbook of the anarchist and travel back in time..
you carefully plan your arrival.. and where, when, how and.. who you are in that time..
you meet the inventor.. and show him.. [ device of choice running on batteries ]
Imagine . .
the full story
can I order one on ebay?
They're quite rare, last one sold in the 1800s lol
hmu if still interested i need to sell mine
Man sucks you can’t hear it