Re: Odp: Odp: theremin trautomium correction

[Owen Davidson <owend...>]

Thanks! That is fascinating.

Owen

Jerzy Matysiakiewicz wrote:
> 
> ----- Wiadomosc oryginalna -----
> Od: "Owen Davidson" <owend (at) tp(dot)net>
> Do: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
> Wyslano: 8 listopada 2000 06:19
> Temat: Re: Odp: theremin trautomium correction

> OK.
> The Trautonium was developed by the electrical engineer Dr Freidrich Adolf
> Trautwein (b Würzburg 1888, Germany; d Düsseldorf 1956) and first exhibited
> in Germany in 1930. The domestic version of the Trautonium was manufactured
> and marketed by Telefunken between 1932 and 1935. A number of composers
> wrote works for the instrument including Paul Hindemith who learnt to play
> the Trautonium and produced a 'Concertina for Trautonium and Orchestra' as
> well as Höffer, Genzmer, Julius Weismann and most notably Oskar Sala who
> became a virtuoso on the machine and eventually took over the development of
> the Trautonium producing his own variations- the 'Mixtur-Trautonium', The
> 'Concert-Trautonium' and the 'Radio - Trautonium'
> 
> taken from
> 
> http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/machines/trautonium/index.html
> 
> i strongly recommendd site
> 
> http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/
> 
> in-depth survey in e-instruments from 1870 /sic/ to 1990.
> Lotta fun
> 
> Greetings
> 
> Jerzy
> 

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