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TIL for Moog Indigo (1970), synth pioneer Jean-Jacques Perrey recorded actual bees, corrected their pitches to musical notes, then manually spliced tapes into the melody of "Flight of the Bumblebee". In an era before computer editing, the melody for one verse took 52 hours.

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