[sdiy] Teleharmonium recording

[Bryan E Cornell]

For kicks I had a look through the Library of Congress's collections for
recordings of the telharmonium or anything by Thadeus Cahill, but found
nothing.  Since, despite popular rumors, we do not have all recordings
in our collections I also searched OCLC and RLIN (two large cooperative
cataloging databases) and also struck out.

Google revealed the following from obsolete.com
<http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/machines/telharmonium/>:

"No recordings of the Telharmonium/Dynamophone are known to have
survived, though Arthur.T. Cahill, brother of Thaddeus, was as recently
as 1950 trying to find a home for the prototype instrument, his search
proved unsuccessful and the historic machine vanished."

I'll also have a quick look in Reynold Weidenaar's _Magic Music from
the Telharmonium_ (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1995), but the
prospects of a recording don't look promising. 

Thanks for the reference statistic.



Bryan Cornell
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