He grew up in Dummer, Hampshire, where his family owned most of the village and his father was "the local representative of both Church and State".
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It lies between the Dümmer Nature Park and the Steinhuder Nature Park, and roughly between Bremen and Minden.
Dummer made no claim to be the inventor of microelectronics, a role he assigned to Robert Noyce and Jean Hoerni, whose planar process turned the relatively crude ideas of Kilby into a reliable manufacturing product, which is what Dummer had been waiting for.
Phillips Brook rises in the township of Erving's Location, New Hampshire in the vicinity of Kelsey Notch and flows south through Odell, Millsfield and Dummer to join the Upper Ammonoosuc River in the town of Stark near the village of Crystal.
Dummer then retired, dividing time between his farm in Byfield and his home in Boston.
He has played with famous names including Laurie Anderson, and L. Shankar from Shakti, Yas-Kaz, an avante-garde dummer from Japan, and has collaborated with influential eastern musicians such as Omar Faruk Tekbilek.