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Inventor | Country | Date |
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| The Musical Telegraph | Elisha Grey | USA | 1876 |
| The Singing Arc | William Duddel | United Kingdom | 1899 |
| The Telharmonium | Thaddeus Cahill | USA | 1897 |
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| The Choralcello | Melvin Severy | USA | 1909 |
| The "Intonarumori" | Luigi Russolo | Italy | 1913 |
| The Audion Piano | Lee De Forest | USA | 1915 |
| The Optophonic Piano | Vladimir Rossiné | Soviet Union | 1916 |
| The Theremin | Leon Termen | Soviet Union | 1917 |
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| The Sphäraphon | Jörg Mager | Germany | 1921 |
| The Staccatone | Hugo Gernsbak | Germany | 1923 |
| The Pianorad | Hugo Gernsbak | Germany | 1926 |
| The Dynaphone | René Bertrand | France | 1927 |
| The Celluphone | Pierre Toulon & Krugg Bass | France | 1927 |
| The Clavier à Lampes | A.Givelet & E.Coupleaux | France | 1927 |
| The Ondes-Martenot | Maurice Martenot | France | 1928 |
| Piano Radio-Électrique | A.Givelet & E.Coupleaux | France | 1929 |
| The Givelet | A.Givelet & E.Coupleaux | France | 1929 |
| The Sonorous Cross | Nikolay Obukhov | France | 1929 |
| The Hellertion | B.Helberger & P.Lertes | Germany | 1929 |
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| The Trautonium | Dr Freidrich Trautwein | Germany | 1930 |
| The Ondium Péchadre | H. Péchadre | France | 1930 |
| The Rhythmicon | Henry Cowell & Leon Termen | USA | 1930 |
| The Theremin Cello | Leon Termen | USA | 1930 |
| The Westinghouse Organ | R.C.Hitchock | USA | 1930 |
| The Sonar | N.Anan'yev | Soviet Union | c1930 |
| Saraga-Generator | Wolja Saraga | Germany | 1931 |
| The "Ekvodin" | Andrei Volodin & K.Kovalski | Soviet Union | 1931 |
| The Trillion Tone Organ | A. Lesti & F. Sammis. | USA | 1931 |
| The Variophone | Yevgeny Sholpo | Soviet Union | 1932 |
| The Emiriton | A.Ivanov & A.Rimsky-Korsakov | Soviet Union | 1932 |
| The Emicon | N.Langer | USA | 1932 |
| The Rangertone Organ | Richard H.Ranger | USA | 1932 |
| L'Orgue des Ondes | Armand Givelet | France | 1933 |
| Syntronic Organ | I.Eremeef & L.Stokowski | USA | 1934 |
| The Polytone Organ | A. Lesti & F. Sammis | USA | 1934 |
| The Hammond Organ | Laurens Hammond | USA | 1935 |
| The Electrochord | - | USA | 1936 |
| The sonothèque | L. Lavalée | France | 1936 |
| The Heliophon | Bruno Hellberger | Germany | 1936 |
| The Grösstonorgel | Oskar Vierling | Germany | 1936 |
| The Welte Licht-Ton-Orgel | E.Welte | Germany | 1936 |
| The Singing Keyboard | F. Sammis | USA | 1936 |
| The Warbo Formant organ | Harald Bode & C. Warnke | Germany | 1937 |
| The Kaleidophon | Jörg Mager | Germany | 1939 |
| The Novachord | L Hammond & C.N.Williams | USA | 1939 |
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| The Voder & Vocoder | Homer Dudley | USA | 1940 |
| The Univox | Univox Co. | UK | 1940 |
| The Multimonica | Harald Bode | Germany | 1940 |
| The Pianophon | - | - | 1940 |
| The Ondioline | Georges Jenny | France | 1940 |
| The Solovox | Hammond Organs Company | USA | 1940 |
| The Electronic Sackbut | Hugh Le Caine | Canada | 1945 |
| The Tuttivox | Harald Bode | USA | 1946 |
| Hanert Electric Orchestra | J. Hanert | USA | 1945 |
| The Minshall Organ | - | USA | 1947 |
| The Clavioline | M. Constant Martin | France | 1947 |
| The Melochord | Harald Bode | Germany | 1947 |
| The Monochord | Dr Freidrich Trautwein | Germany | 1948 |
| The Free Music Machine | Percy Grainger & Burnett Cross | USA/Australia | 1948 |
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| The Electronium Pi | René Seybold | Germany | 1950 |
| The Polychord Organ | Harald Bode | USA | 1950 |
| Dr Kent's Electronic Music Box | Dr Earle Kent | USA | 1951 |
| The Clavivox | Raymond Scott | USA | 1952 |
| The RCA Synthesiser I & II | Harry Olsen & Hebert Belar | USA | 1952 |
| The Composertron | Osmond Kendall | Canada | 1953 |
| MUSIC I-V Software | Max Mathews | USA | 1957 |
| Oramics | Daphne Oram | United Kingdom | 1959 |
| The Siemens Synthesiser | H.Klein & W.Schaaf | Germany | 1959 |
| The Side Man | Wurlitzer | USA | 1959 |
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| Milan Electronic Music Studio | director: Luciano Berio | Italy | 1960 |
| Moog Synthesisers | Robert Moog | USA | 1963 |
| The Mellotron & Chamberlin | Leslie Bradley | United Kingdom | 1963 |
| Buchla Synthesisers | Donald Buchla | USA | 1963 |
| The Donca-Matic DA-20 | Keio Corp | Japan | 1963 |
| The Synket | Paul Ketoff | United Kingdom | 1963 |
| Tonus/ARP Synthesisers | Philip Dodds | USA | 1964 |
| PAiA Electronics, Inc | John Paia Simonton | USA | 1967 |
| MUSYS Software | David Cockrell & Peter Grogno | United Kingdom | 1968 |
| EMS Synthesisers | Peter Zinovieff & David Cockrell | United Kingdom | 1969 |
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| GROOVE System | Max Mathews | USA | 1970 |
| The Optigan | Mattel Inc. | USA | 1970 |
| The Electronium-Scott | Raymond Scott | USA | 1970 |
| Con Brio Synthesisers | - | USA | 1971 |
| Roland Synthesisers | Roland Corporation | Japan | 1972 |
| Maplin Synthesisers | Trevor G Marshall | Australia/USA | 1973 |
| The Synclavier | New England Digital Corporation | USA | 1975 |
| Korg Synthesisers | Korg | Japan | 1975 |
| EVI wind instrument | Nyle Steiner | USA | 1975 |
| EDP Wasp | Chris Hugget | UK | 1978 |
| Yamaha Synthesisers | Yamaha Corp | Japan | 1976 |
| PPG Synthesisers | Wolfgang Palm | Germany | 1975 |
| Oberheim Synthesisers | Thomas Oberheim | USA | 1978 |
| Serge Synthesisers | - | - | 1979 |
| The Fairlight CMI | Peter Vogel & Kim Ryrie | Australia | 1979 |
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| Simmons Drum Synthesisers | Simmons | UK | 1980 |
| Casio Synthesisers | Casio Ltd | Japan | 1981 |
| The McLeyvier | David McLey | USA | 1981 |
| Kawai Synthesiser | Kawai Musical Instrument Co | Japan | - |
| The Emulator | Emu Systems | USA | 1981 |
| Waldorf | Germany | - | |
| Oxford Synthesiser Company | Chris Hugget | United Kingdom | 1983 |
| Akai Sampler | Akai Corporation | Japan | 1984 |
| Ensoniq Synthesisers & Samplers | - | USA | 1985 |
| Steinberg Software | Steinberg | Germany | - |
| GEM Synthesisers | - | - | - |
| Crumar Synthesisers | - | - | - |
| Kurzweil Synthesisers/Samplers | Raymond Kurzweill | USA/Korea | 1983 |
| Sequential Circuits | - | USA | - |
| Alesis Corporation | Keith Barr | USA | 1984 |
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All of the above electronic instruments can defined as very interesting to Jansky Noise.
Some of the above have been used by Jansky Noise, especially those with links, these days, we have access to VST instruments, however a little history and observation of the classics is always good. The list came from the '120 Years Of Electronic Music' an ongoing project by Simon Crabb visit the page here.