History of the Bowed Electric String

by Benedict Heaney

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	1.	Introduction 06:02
	2.	Groundwork 06:43
	3.	Phonographic Violin 07:17
	4.	Telephonic Violin 12:43
	5.	Electric Violin 05:59
	6.	Dierdorf - Raolin 08:38
	7.	Starzl - Giant Tone Radio Violin 01:53
	8.	Pfeil - Allencraft Laboratories 05:34
	9.	Eisenberg - of the Violin Type 01:05
	10.	Vierling - Elektrische Geige 02:34
	11.	Dimitriu - Violon Électromagnétique 08:01
	12.	Electric Strings Since 05:40

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The first instalment of my Book of Electric Violin, “History of the Bowed Electric String” as a spoken word album.

How & why the Electric Violin Family came to be a thing.
Who made what, where and when.

“This is absolutely extraordinary,” Rudolf Haken, Professor of Viola and Electric Strings, University of Illinois

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Photo collage by permission
- grateful thanks to Camelia Cristofor
- from original images in the patrimony of “Ștefan Procopiu” Science and Technique Museum from Iași, Romania

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released August 2, 2021

Written & narrated by Benedict Heaney
Recorded & produced at Deltaviolin's Studio Benbecula
July, 2021

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Benedict Heaney Digital : Electric : Acoustic : Noise : Sound : Music

Electric violinist & electric violin historian

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