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- This record was created based on information from Google Arts & Culture and "Magic Music from the Telharmonium" by Renold Weidenaar. According to these sources, this meeting featured a demonstration of an electronic instrument called the Telharmonium, sometimes described as the world's first synthesizer, with remarks delivered by its inventor, Thaddeus Cahill. The instrument was housed in a building at 535-537 West 56th Street, and connected to the Chapter Hall via electrical cables. Weidenaar indicates that Cahill began tests of this setup in late November 1911, and that "[b]y midyear [1912] Telharmonic demonstrations were continuing at Carnegie Hall and were being transmitted by telephone to interested persons in Boston, Springfield, Baltimore, Washington, and elsewhere." It is unclear when the demonstrations at the Chapter Hall ceased, although Weidenaar reports that composer Edgard Varèse visited Cahill at the 535-537 West 56th studio to hear the Telharmonium in December 1915. Cahill vacated the 56th Street location by the end of 1918.
“The Colossal Telharmonium—The World’s First Synthesizer.” Google Arts & Culture, https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-colossal-telharmonium—the-world’s-first-synthesizer/iAWRKDY1jD1jKA. Accessed 28 Dec. 2023.
Weidenaar, Reynold. Magic Music from the Telharmonium. Scarecrow Press, 1995.
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