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A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
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Terman's Musical Instrument
Inventor thought he could reverse death itself and bring the dead back to life. He was inspired in this by the way that dead organisms could be perfectly preserved in the siberian pirma frost. Terman made two attempts to actually do this, or at least made preliminary moves in that direction. In 19 23, the first piece of music written specially for the instrument was performed by terman himself with the leningvad pilarmonic andre pashenko's symphonic mystery for terman vaxan orchestra. The score for that was later lost, but has been reconstructed, and the piece was given a second premier in 20 20. But while terman was working
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