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Hello, you are listening to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service with me Thomas Papon.

Today I am bringing you the story of one of the earliest electronic musical instruments ever invented.

It's been used in film soundtracks, classical music,

and was promoted for a short time by the Nazis.

It is called the Traltonium.

At first it was used

at first it was used as a classical instrument and the German composer Paul Hindemith

wrote many pieces for the Troughtonium in the 1930s. But the troutonium can create very strange and singular sounds.

Famously it was used in 1962 in Alfred Hitchcock's horror film The Birds.

The director wanted scary sounds for scary birds. Hitchcock birds.

Hitchcock told the BBC in 1972 he was trying something new when he used the Troughtonium.

The biggest experiment I did was in the birds by substituting pure sound electronically.

And there was a sound of birds, maybe not realistic sound,

but more or less the impressionistic sound of birds screaming and attacking us a house.

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