Electronic music pioneer Jean-Jacques Perrey dies aged 87

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Frenchman Jean-Jacques Perrey, who pioneered electronic music and whose scores were used by Disney and in the hit children's TV series "Sesame Street", died on Friday aged 87. Perrey died in the Swiss lakeside city of Lausanne after a battle with lung cancer, his daughter Patricia Leroy said. The self-taught Perrey quit medical school in 1952 when he met George Jenny, inventor of the Ondioline — a new type of electronic keyboard instrument that was a forerunner to the commercial synthesiser and launched a career in music.