The Synthesis of Synthesis- The Telharmonium
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- Arguably the first true synthesizer ever created, the Telharmonium set the stage for 64 years of inspiration and innovation in regard to synthesis. In this video, Marc describes some of the history of this venerable and seminal instrument, as well as the impact it had on future instruments.
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The host does an excellent job of painting a visual image of how electrons to sound works. As you study more and more of the systems and processes behind analog electronic music you begin to understand why it sounds the way it does. The fascination of electromechanical tone generation has always been with me from the first day my dad brought home a Hammond L100. He being a very visual electronics engineer he quickly explained the principles of electromagnetism. 'Wow, just like my guitar!'
Beautiful job! Thanks for explaining it so clearly and leading up to the Hammond organ. I wish you had another about the Hammond where you explain the limitation of not having accurate amplitude control of each component over time, which would be needed to realistically create the sounds of different instruments.
I sort of miss a mentioning of the Novachord. I was always puzzled by the sound Dimitri Tiomkin had for the opening to HIGH NOON. I found out eventually that it was a Novachord played ala Korla Pandit. It sounded like
a soon to fail washing machine.
Fantastic description, been looking for something like this in one video for a longgg time.
FINALLY someone explains how this thing worked! I've been trying to figure this out for a few weeks now, but all the descriptions of the Telharmonium I've read on the web have been pretty brief and vague, and don't really go into the principle on which it operated.
Kudos to you, Automatic Gainsay!
Just watched the Novachord video, now this. Excellent channel, great job Moog!!!
Really great work, here. Simple, smart, perfect.
Thank you for this very interesting piece of history and synthesis 🌻
Hey everyone, check out the North Suburban Hammond Organ Society site. They have excellent articles regarding the successor to the Teleharmonium- the Hammond Tone Wheel organ (1935-1975), and the Wurlitzer Electrostatic Reed organ (invented by Everett Organ Co. 1929 & sold patent to Wurlitzer Organ Co. in around 1945), when Wurlitzer further refined the electrostatic reed organ to be an 'instant attack' organ like the Hammond. The reeds oscillate (vibrate) & a high voltage charge passes through.
It's indeed a big shame there are no recordings (that are known of), however i cant believe'there is no recording left..
There where way's of recording, even far before edison claimed to inventing it.
But for now, we have just one option of hearing the Telharmonium.
And that's: REBUILDING IT.. who's in!
There's literally only two buildings that would be appropriate for this machine - either a Cathedral....
Or, and I feel kind of more fitting (and easier to obtain)...
A Disused Nuclear bunker.
Not a little teeny backyard one - but a full on hide the brass away until it's all over one ...
That would be amazing.
Just this bunker in the middle of nowhere (Scotland has a number they have decommissioned), just blasting out these tones.
Awesome
Thank you! I was really struggling to understand this before I came upon this video.
At least we could model it accurately now, and get an idea of what it sounded like !!!
Could make a mini one out of metal and old cogs
I really enjoy how you explain things! Subscribed!
Saw this video in a college class. Very interesting!
Clear and precise, great videos. Thank you.
But what does it actually sound like? It's a good explanation of how it worked but there is no demonstration of it in action.
Has anyone modeled the Teleharmonium? It would be a killer DAW plug-in.
To honor Cahill we should use a complimentary term that means putting someone on hold with music. Recorded voice to caller: "I'll put you on Cahill until the next operator is available"
What is that piece of gear in that room? Some kind of Trautonium?
Fantastic video!!
Sadly, no recordings of the telharmonium are known to exist.
it is sad, especially as the last one survived unti 1958!
Well, what are people standing around for? Build one!
After Cahill's death in 1934,his brother kept one of the three models,but in 1962 it was destroyed.No recordings of the music were kept,everything...just disappeared
@@Captain_Rhodes Heard the last one was taken apart in 1962. There MUST be recordings!
are there any reproductions of what it sounded like?
thanks for sharing moogfoundation
very well explained, I like it!
awesome. you should do an in depth detail video that goes on for a whole hour!
His hair looks messy, yet perfect...mesmerizing
Pretty sure what I just heard was that there was a patent created before the telephone was even a commercially available product for a machine that could stream music?
Sound example at 5:49
So how do you get an sawtooth wave out of sine waves?
I'm hoping.
Nice Altec 250 board !
ah, the dynamophone; I'd read about this as a young man researching the history of Hammond. From the fragments of my memory, the story ends with an irate telephone user barging in one night, destroying the thing, and tossing the bits into whatever body of water (too many years have passed) below from the XX story. Yikes. For some reason, though, I didn't remember this being directly related to the Hammond; I thought his invention was directly related to a component he had invented and introduced in his clock and ill-fated record players leading to an electric flute, which gave Laurens the idea for the organ. Like lightening striking twice. But, memory is a funny thing.
Not entirely true. If you are able to "wiggle electrons" you can reproduce any recorded sound. But there is a difference between a recorded piano even on the best hi fi system and the genuine sound of sitting in front of one. Any time you run a signal through a piece of gear and through wires and a speaker cone it's going to impart something to the sound.
is there a transcription of the speech?
Too bad Ben Franklin couldn't have "electrified" his glass harmonica (just needed "pickups"), as he invented the tonewheel device AND gets a lot of credit (questionable!) for the introduction (or, more accurately, the conduction) of modern electricity.
It Should Be great to built a Telharmonium VST !!!!
Hammond B3 (the original, not the Suzuki digital copy) is VERY close, and infinitely more accessible. But one could build one! A digital "copy" is just that, and because it isn't analog, it fails.
Have you become the synthesis "host with the most"?
Well, some people should rebuild it, record it and publish the result :D !
handy
"When was the first fully electronic instrument made?"
The virgin "thermin"
Vs
The chad "Telharmonium"
Violins create triangle waves…
"...wiggles on top of wiggles."
SO
Great fucking lamp!
👍i LoVe !
💙⚪❤
I think,He was the Godfather of Hammond?I think are of optical Musicinstrument,Not wheels👍👻🙌the best was ist Sampling...Or analag,Algorithmus,pwm or Others New...⛄👍😸😂😂😂🇩🇪
Not quite dialog in the Socratic fashion, much more like a big brother lecture more than anything as a matter of fact.. But not quite that either right? So what then? Mentor-ship for young wayward souls is it? So that unkempt just got up from bed look will go down well with your target set I'd expect. Is this why I detect twinges of subversion and sophomoric sarcasm. If the "story time" theatrical velvet curtain backdrop isn't clue enough? Same old cattle rustlers and wranglers looking to draw the next herd into a waiting ditch I suppose.
SCHOOL OF SHEEP/CIRCLE OF WOLVES SOCIAL SCHEMA MAKES A MOCKERY OUT OF ALL HUMAN INTERESTS
BECAUSE THE ONLY THING THAT WOLVES OR SHEEP CARE ABOUT, IS WHO GETS FED TO WHOM
Yeah moogfoundation, stop subverting us! We won't fall for your dastardly sophomoric tricks!
oh not just moog involved for sure Boris!
What the fuck is your problem you absolute pretentious wannabe intellectual.
genesis don't you start subverting.