The International Center for Comparative Sound was founded by Doctor Otto Schleisenbaum in 1897, shortly following the advent of the phonograph, and less than one year after Thaddeus Cahill patented the Teleharmonium, the first electronic instrument in human history. The Center exists in order to catalog, classify, quantify and compare all varieties of recorded sound; both those sounds generated by natural means - insects, birds, waterfalls, and violins - as well as those generated by machines.
 

The institute features -
  • The largest public archive of random punch-card tone generators, surpassed only by the private collection of Count Fabian of Lichtenstein.
  • The world's largest collection of tuning forks, numbering well over four hundred thousand - including the one that was responsible for the untimely demise of Frau Schleisenbaum.

 

  • An intact, fully operational Teleharmonium, weighing over 200 tons, which is used to generate over 90% of the hold music in Estonia.

Currently, the Institute strives to become the foundation of the still non-existent national sound archive of Finland.

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