Metronome
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A metronome is a device that produces an audible click or other sound at a uniform interval that can be set by the user, typically in beats per minute. Metronomes may also include synchronized visual
Maelzel's Metronome
Franz eletromechanical metronome
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Johann Nepomuk Maelzel
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Johann Nepomuk Maelzel was a German inventor, engineer, and showman, best known for reverse engineering the metronome that Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel invented and mass producing it. As for several music
Metronome
…for a performance. A type of metronome was among the inventions of the Andalusian polymath Abbas ibn Firnas (c. 810–887). In 1815, the German inventor Johann Maelzel patented a mechanical, wind-up metronome as a tool for musicians, under the title "Instrument/Machine for the Improvement of all Musical Performance…
A metronome by Maelzel, Paris, 1815
von Kempelen's Chess Turk