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History of Technology of Music

Please note: This website is still in early development phases and will be continually updated and improved and therefore should be regarded as always "under construction". Sorry: due to some technical problems, plans are more than a year behind. This website was first placed on the Net on 3 November 2003

Various HoTM webpages updated 11 February 2009

Today's Blog feeling/emotion: The bushfires in Victoria, Australia - Feb 2009. Vale Charmian Nathanielsz and Leigh Ahern, died in the fires of the Kinglake area, night of Saturday, 7 February. Charmian being sister of an old musician friend of the webmaster, of the 1960s and 1970s, 1980s, Roger. Many condolences to the family, who came to Australia from Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in the 1960s.

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	Dan Byrnes Word Factory	HoTM - another website book from Dan Byrnes Word Factory - You are now on the index page at: HoTM - History of Technology of Music Music Bibliography - General/Historical Bibliography Music Bibliography - Guides and handbooks, etc Guides etc. Introduction: Instruments in general - work in progress Guitar electric - see: Inventing the electric guitar Legacy: John Lennon and the Peace Movement - see Lennon Legacy The Powers of Music: - see Modern research questions Specially for emailer questions Feedback file Jokes about music Musical humour Timeframe file Year 2005 back to Year 2000 Timeframe file The 1990s to the Present Timeframe file The 1980s Timeframe file The 1970s Timeframe file The 1960s Timeframe file The 1950s Timeframe file The 1940s Timeframe file The 1930s Timeframe file The 1920s Timeframe file The 1910s Timeframe file The 1900s Timeframe file The 1890s Timeframe file The Nineteenth Century to 1890s Timeframe file The Eighteenth Century Timeframe file The Seventeenth Century Timeframe file The Sixteenth Century Timeframe file The Fifteenth Century Timeframe file The Fourteenth Century Timeframe file The Thirteenth Century Glossary of Terms Musical and Technical Terms New file - Books Books Books Music/Film Booklist
	Here you will find a friendly, feasty and feisty treatment of musical history drawn from the world's records... A slow-growing website, perhaps, but destined to become large, with an emphasis on music in Australia. Recent good discovery: UK Music - latest in Rock and Pop UKMusic The UK Music website is dedicated to the UK music scene. UKMusic.com is updated daily with the UK Music Top Ten and from UK music charts. They have music news, features, interviews and reviews from and of ALL the fave UK artists. All scenes covered: rock, indie, grime, pop, hip hop, R&B, dance, soul, jazz, UK charts, video, audio streams, forums, events listings, games, gigs, and competitions. (If you have a quality website on related matters, drop them an e-mail about a cross-link.)

The Main Purpose...

The main purpose of this website is to deliver news and views on the history(s) of humanity's use of music to the present... a big ask!

HoTM! The website for music demons by Dan Byrnes and Ed Matzenik. Music is one of the great joys of life - one of the reasons this website originates. But why does this website originate in Australia? It is partly because Australia is a country of recent historical origin, 1788++, meaning, as decades pass by, Australia as a nation of migrants becomes a collection point for the latest technology of all kinds from the Western World.
Therefore, we have become a collection point for the latest in music technology. Related, is our habit of inviting famous world acts to our cities for performances. Voila! Australia is interested in music, new artists, new instruments, and new music technology! HoTM! will be fascinated to trace all such developments.

Topics to be treated on this website in future will include:

* Timelines on innovations in instruments * music technology * enjoying recorded music * performance of live music * the early music recording scene (internationally) * from gramophones to the first radios * technology for film music * the arrival of tape recording * the arrival of stereo (and later, surround sound) * to the first computer-generated music, * to MIDI, then CDs, WAVs, MP3s and other digital formats * today's DVDs and also portable MP3 players like iPod and countless others... * issues in music industries around the world * pages on individual and exotic instruments *

Also to be considered...

Also being considered are: musical instrument technology, general social and cultural history associated with music...

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CREDITS: HoTM - History of Technology of Music website is based on an original idea from bass guitarist Ed Matzenik, who once played with the famous Australian surf band, The Atlantics Ed today plays bass with best-awarded pub band, Johnny Green's Blues Cowboys, who regularly tour NSW and Queensland, sometimes in Victoria. (Another of their guitarists is a professional fisherman! This band's line-up includes the legendary lead guitarist, Peter ("Flash") Sheedy, originally from the Tamworth area.)
Some graphics appear here courtesy of their creators, Dan Byrnes, Joel Byrnes, Lou Farina.
Something is also owed here to conversations over time with Tamworth-based fiddler/guitarist, and Chameleon Musician, Andrew Clermont. (Pictured right, and quite a man!) Clermont lately promotes instruments by Epoch in Australia.

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