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The first drum machine was built because the drummer kept dating the singer. Workplace boundaries, please.

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Early rhythm machines appeared in the 1930s, such as Henry Cowell's Rhythmicon, and commercial drum machines in the 1950s and 1960s. They were developed for rhythm accompaniment.

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