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Not that the Lumichord didn't have it's real life counterparts.  In fact, there were two outstanding examples. 

First up, the Clavilux.  Inventor Thomas Wilfred of Denmark took his brainchild very seriously.  Having what was essentially an organ that produced colours (or "fluid light forms") instead of music, Wilfred saw the Clavilux as the harbinger of a new art that would soon take its place among the more audible sorts of symphonies.  He not only composed, um, compositions for the Clavilux, but he also designed a "Clavilux Jr" for what he thought would be a booming home market that would leave those Hammonds nowhere.

A put his compositions are a bit like watching a screensaver.

 
Then there's the Telecolor, introduced to the world by Edward B Patterson of Camden, New Jersey in 1931.  This basically did the same thing as the Clavilux, but instead of being played by an operator, the Telecolor was hooked up to the household radio.  The Telecolor used a bank of Thyratron valves to assign  various colours to various pitches that changed along with the music to evoke (we hope) a particular mood.

Stunned disbelief seems to have been the main one.

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