Editing Electronic musical instrument (section)

== Tape recording ==
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| caption1 = [[Musique concrète#The phonogène|Phonogene]] (1953) <br/>for musique concrète
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| caption2 = Mellotron　MkVI<ref name="MellotronMarkVI">
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  |title     = Mellotron Mark VI (1999-) Images
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  |title     =Streetly Mellotron M4000
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  |journal   = Sound on Sound
  |issue     = October 2007
  |quote     = Mellotron M4000's control panel identical to the M400's, aside from the addition of four buttons and an LED display to operate the cycling mechanism.
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  |quote     = The front panel user interface has 2 TFT-displays of high quality and are capable of showing pictures of the actual instruments. 
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In 1935, another significant development was made in Germany. Allgemeine Elektricitäts Gesellschaft (AEG) demonstrated the first commercially produced [[magnetic tape recorder]], called the ''[[Magnetophon]]''.  [[Audio tape]], which had the advantage of being fairly light as well as having good audio fidelity, ultimately replaced the bulkier wire recorders.

The term "[[electronic music]]" (which first came into use during the 1930s) came to include the tape recorder as an essential element: "electronically produced sounds recorded on tape and arranged by the composer to form a musical composition".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Definition of electronic music &#124; Dictionary.com|url=https://www.dictionary.com/browse/electronic-music|access-date=2023-02-04|website=www.dictionary.com|language=en}}</ref> It was also indispensable to [[Musique concrète]].

Tape also gave rise to the first, analogue, sample-playback keyboards, the [[Chamberlin]] and its more famous successor the [[Mellotron]], an electro-mechanical, polyphonic keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s.