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Old March 2nd, 2008, 12:01 AM   #23 (permalink)
Larry F
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Little known fact. The Hammond organ's tone wheel was closely modeled after the tone wheel of an early electronic synthesizer, the Telharmonium. Built during the 1890 to 1910 or so, the instrument weighed 200 tons and had a coal-powered generator. It resided in the basement of a building in NYC and transmitted music over phone lines.
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