In addition to photos of the instruments, there is also information about their history and the people and companies that made them.

120 Years of Electronic Music Electronic Musical Instrument 1870 - 1990 Instrument Inventor Country Date 1 8 7 0 The Musical Telegraph Elisha Grey USA 1876 The Singing Arc William Duddel United Kingdom 1899 The Telharmonium Thaddeus Cahill USA 1897 1 9 0 0 The Choralcello Melvin Severy USA 1909 The Intonarumori Luigi Russolo Italy 1913 The Audion Piano Lee De Forest USA 1915 The Optophonic ...

Website gives the history of the Optigan optical organ instrument created and manufactured in the late 1960s and 1970s.

Audities mission is the preservation of electronic musical instruments and the documentation associated with them for use in museums, recording studios, modern instrument research and new music works.

It occurred to Don one day to build an instrument actually intended for electronic music performance.