15/07/2021
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐨 , 𝐎𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐊𝐞𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐒𝐲𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐫 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
𝐁𝐂 𝟑𝐫𝐝 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐲
The Greek engineer Ctesibius of Alexandria is credited with inventing the organ in the 3rd century BC. He devised an instrument called the hydraulis, which delivered a wind supply maintained through water pressure to a set of pipes.
𝟏𝟕𝟎𝟎
The piano was invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655-1731) of Italy. Cristofori was unsatisfied by the lack of control that musicians had over the volume level of the harpsichord. He is credited for switching out the plucking mechanism with a hammer to create the modern piano in around the year 1700.
𝟏𝟖𝟕𝟔
The first electric keyboard was invented by Elisha Gray in 1876 called the Musical Telegraph.
𝟏𝟗𝟐𝟎𝐬
The earliest electric pianos were invented in the late 1920s; the 1929 Neo-Bechstein electric grand piano was among the first. Probably the earliest stringless model was Lloyd Loar's Vivi-Tone Clavier.
𝟏𝟗𝟐𝟖
The first successful electronic organ was developed in 1928 in France by Edouard Coupleux and Armand Givelet. It used electronic oscillators in place of the pipes of a conventional organ and was operated with keyboards and a pedal board.
𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟓
The first electronic sound synthesizer, an instrument of awesome dimensions, was developed by the American acoustical engineers Harry Olson and Herbert Belar in 1955 at the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) laboratories at Princeton, New Jersey.
𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐖𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 , 𝐘𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐡𝐚.𝐜𝐨𝐦 , 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚.𝐜𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐳𝐢.𝐜𝐨𝐦
