page_title: List of German inventions and discoveries
section_title: Musical instruments
hierarchical_section_title: List of German inventions and discoveries / Musical instruments
caption_attribution_description: English: German-American engineer Emile Berliner (1851-1929) with the model of the first phonograph machine which he invented.
context_page_description: German inventions and discoveries are ideas, objects, processes or techniques invented, innovated or discovered, partially or entirely, in Germany or abroad by a person from Germany. Often, things discovered for the first time are also called inventions and in many cases, there is no clear line between the two.
  Germany has been the home of many famous inventors, discoverers and engineers, including Carl von Linde, who developed the modern refrigerator; Paul Nipkow, who laid the foundation of the television with his Nipkow disk; Hans Geiger, the creator of the Geiger counter; and Konrad Zuse, who built the first fully automatic digital computer and the first commercial digital computer. Such German inventors, engineers and industrialists as Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Otto Lilienthal, Gottlieb Daimler, Rudolf Diesel, Hugo Junkers and Karl Benz helped shape modern automotive and air transportation technology. Aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun developed the first space rocket at Peenemünde and later on was a prominent member of NASA and developed the Saturn V Moon rocket.
context_section_description: c. 1700: Clarinet by Johann Christoph Denner in Nuremberg
  1805: Panharmonicon by Johann Nepomuk Mälzel
  1814–1816: Metronome by Johann Nepomuk Mälzel and Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel
  1818: (Modern) French horn by Heinrich Stölzel and Friedrich Blühmel
  1821: Harmonica by Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann
  1828: Flugelhorn by Heinrich Stölzel in Berlin
  1830 or earlier: Accordion in Nuremberg
  1835: Tuba by Wilhelm Friedrich Wieprecht and Johann Gottfried Moritz in Berlin
  1850s: Wagner tuba by Richard Wagner
  1854: Bandoneon by Heinrich Band
  1877: Microphone by Emile Berliner
  1887: Gramophone record by Emile Berliner
  1914: Hornbostel–Sachs, the most used system in musical instrument classification, by Curt Sachs (together with Erich Moritz von Hornbostel)
caption: Emile Berliner with his disc record gramophone
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