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Musie Synthesizer Installed at Columbia ^

An olectronic musie synthesizer, capablc of generał ing electronically any imaginable musical lone, bas been in-stallcd at Columbia University in New York. Ii will be used in a program of composition and rcsearch in electronic musie, conducted by Columbia and Princeton Univeisities under a grant of the Rockefeller Foundation. Developed by an RCA Laboratories team under Dr. Harry F. Olson. the synthesizer produces musical sounds in response to coded signals fed into the system on perforated laj>e pre-