Peterson Electro-Musical Products
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| Industry | Electronics |
| Founded | Chicago (1948) |
| Founder | Richard H. Peterson |
| Headquarters | Alsip, Illinois, United States |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Richard Peterson (Founder) Scott R. Peterson (President) Bill Hass (Engineer) Patrick J. Bovenizer (VP) |
| Products | Tuners |
| Subsidiaries | Conn Tuner |
| Website | www |
Peterson Electro-Musical Products, Inc. is a music-electronics company founded by Richard H. Peterson in 1948. The Peterson company introduced the first commercial handheld electronic tuner for musicians, the Model 70, in 1964, and later its models of strobe tuners became popular among touring and studio musicians such as the Grateful Dead, The Who, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix, and Neil Young. Since its inception the company has also contributed notable inventions and innovations to the electronic organ, and its products are in use in many thousands of pipe organs, and hundreds of thousands of electronic organs, worldwide.
Founder Richard H. "Dick" Peterson (born February 26, 1925, died January 29, 2009), was born in Chicago. In his teens, he began developing a keen interest in radios, vacuum tube circuits, and pipe organs. He served as a radio operator for the U.S. Army near the end of World War II, and while stationed in New York City, developed a further fascination with the sound and mechanics of pipe organs. He founded Haygren Organ Company to build electronic pipe organs with a sound he felt better matched real pipe organs, and was the first to use multiple oscillators in the organ design to produce a genuine ensemble. He also focused on the realistic attack and decay of individual electronic notes.
Peterson founded Peterson Electro-Musical Products in 1948. He soon licensed his inventions to the Gulbransen Piano Company of Chicago to use in home electronic organs. In 1957, Peterson completed the world's first transistor organ for Gulbransen. The company went on to produce other products for musical tuning, electronic organs, home security, and keyboards, and later developed and produced electronic and electro-mechanical equipment used in pipe organs.
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