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They call it "tone generators" in the intro.

> 14. MUSIC BOX

> LOGO has primitives which supply output for the music box. A LOGO user can specify parts for up to 4 simultaneous voices, each voice having a range of five chromatic octaves. In order to avoid timing problems the music is compiled into temporary storage and then output to the box at a constant rate, rather than played in "real time".

> The music system has been designed with specific uses in mind. (See, e.g., the papers of Jeanne Bamberger.)

Following this name, I found:

> Bamberger was appointed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1970 to 2001, where she taught in the Music and Theater Arts Section. At MIT, she attended a day-long seminar in April 1970 organized by Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert, then co-directors of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab, on "Teaching Children Thinking".

> Learning about Papert's development of Logo and Minsky’s digital music box, Bamberger was inspired to embark on a career combining music, computers, developmental psychology, and education to change how music was taught.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Bamberger



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