First Drum Machine.

[nofi]

http://www.openculture.com/2016/03/hear-the-first-drum-machine-the-rhythmicon-from-1931.html

[uwe]

"The keys were each connected to a light that turned on when you pressed them. The lights then shined through a sequence of holes punched into two discs that rotated via a motor. On the other side of the discs was a photoelectric sensor that, when activated by the patterns of light, sent the Rhythmicon's unique signals to a tube amp and thus to a speaker and out to dazzled audiences."

Of course, you could have also taken a stick and banged it in time on some piece of metal or some animal skin over a hollow piece of wood just to see how that works ...

I doubt whether the Rhythmicon would have really conquered the dance floors.

[Pilgrim]

It does kinda sound like trained Canadian Honkers in concert...

[uwe]

And then there is people who don't like drum machines at all.

[Dave W]

How is this considered a drum machine?

[uwe]

It's supposed to create polyrhythms. You know, the thing white people can neither wrap their mind nor their legs around.

[Granny Gremlin]

It does sound like a bunch of tonally challenged geese dunnit.

[Pilgrim]

Polly rhythms!

[slinkp]

I like it

[uwe]

But then you always have these weird opinions!

[slinkp]

Having weird opinions is part of what makes life worth living.  You're not a stranger to iconoclasm yourself

[Pilgrim]

I have a high opinion of my opinions!

[uwe]

Having weird opinions is part of what makes life worth living.  You're not a stranger to iconoclasm yourself

Guilty as charged!!!