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Drum Machines Have No Soul: The Machine Museum

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An illustrated, source-led history of commercial drum machines, browsable across 234 instruments, makers, eras, ads, and catalogues.

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For: Drum-machine historians, musicians, and synth-curious browsers
Worth noticing: Its five dated eras run from pre-1978 accompaniment boxes to post-2000 performance instruments; 39 more entries sit in an undated group.

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The collection can be searched across manufacturers and filtered by period; entries are grouped into five eras, with machine histories explaining what is known about their documented dates. The homepage also surfaces artist pages, advertisements, and catalogues, and labels scanned ads with publication, date, and source-credit links. Thirty-nine entries are separated into an undated period rather than being assigned a guessed chronology.

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