Trautonium
Trautonio
- Date
- 1930 · confidence high
- Place
- Berlin, Germany
- Credited to
- Friedrich Trautwein
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
Electronic musical instrument created by Friedrich Trautwein at the radio laboratory of the Berlin Musikhochschule, generating sound through a relaxation oscillator controlled by a touch-sensitive resistive wire.
What it led to
- Further development by Oskar Sala until his death in 2002
- Use in film soundtracks, including those of Alfred Hitchcock
- Influence on later electronic instruments such as the synthesizer