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Trautonium: A Revolution in Electronic Music

Duration: 9 minutes

on BBC World Service West and Central Africa

Available for over a year

Invented in 1929 in Germany, the trautonium was capable of creating strange and eerie sounds, used in classical music and film soundtracks, famously in Hitchcock's 'The Birds'. Show more

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