# Melograph

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The **Melograph**, similar to the **Melodiograph**, is a mechanical apparatus for [ethnomusicological](/source/Ethnomusicology) [transcription](/source/Transcription_(music)) usually producing some sort of graph that can be preserved and filed, similar to a [recording](/source/Sound_recording_and_reproduction) of music. Beginning with attempts by Milton Metfessel in 1928, assorted devices such as this have been developed or manufactured, the most notable dating back to the 1950s and situated at the [University of California](/source/University_of_California) in [Los Angeles](/source/Los_Angeles) ([Charles Seeger](/source/Charles_Seeger)), the [University of Oslo](/source/University_of_Oslo) ([Olav Gurvin](/source/Olav_Gurvin) and [Karl Dahlback](/source/Karl_Dahlback)), and the [Hebrew University](/source/Hebrew_University) in [Jerusalem](/source/Jerusalem) ([Dalia Cohen](/source/Dalia_Cohen) and [Ruth Katz](/source/Ruth_Katz)).

## Further reading

- Randel, Don Michael. (2003). *Harvard Dictionary of Music*. Chicago: Belknap Harvard. ISBN 0-674-01163-5.

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