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How to wreck a nice beach

How to wreck a nice beach

Dave Tompkins · 2010 · 334 pages

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Presents the history of the vocoder, from its invention by Bell Labs in 1928 as a speech-scrambling weapon to guard telephones from eavesdroppers during World War II through its use as a voice-altering tool in popular music.

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