History of the Bowed Electric String - Script & Audio Bundle

by Benedict Heaney

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	1.	Introduction 06:02
	2.	Groundworks 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 the audio book plus full script:
Spanning 48 pages of all original writing, fully illustrated with photos, images and diagrams throughout and including quotes source guide.

“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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