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Topic: Trautonium |
b0b
From: Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Charlie McDonald
From: out of the blue
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Posted 19 Jun 2022 11:28 pm
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More fun than a Theramin!
The two links sound much alike.... _________________ Those that say don't know; those that know don't say.--Buddy Emmons |
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Ian Rae
From: Redditch, England
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Posted 20 Jun 2022 12:19 am
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They're the same - please update
This is interesting _________________ Make sleeping dogs tell the truth!
Homebuilt keyless U12 7x5, Excel keyless U12 8x8, Williams keyless U12 7x8, Telonics rack and 15" cabs |
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Fred Treece
From: California, USA
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Posted 20 Jun 2022 6:29 am
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A synthesizer that predates the keyboard-oriented concept. It certainly is a lot of technological complexity for making music, but it is a unique sound. The hand on the top bar seems to be playing mostly chords and the one on the bottom bar handles single note lines, and it sounds like a pedal steel playing accompaniment for a lap steel. There is some technique that makes sense and some that doesnβt. Do you think those things that look like levers are pitch reference markers? That seems a little over the top if thatβs all they do. |
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b0b
From: Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 20 Jun 2022 8:05 am
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Ian Rae wrote: |
They're the same - please update
This is interesting |
Sorry. Fixed the first YouTube link. It's a piece by Paul Hindemith played on an early trautonium. I shows a lot of closeups of the technique used to play it. _________________ -πππ- (admin) - Robert P. Lee - Recordings - Breathe - D6th - Video |
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Fred Treece
From: California, USA
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Posted 20 Jun 2022 11:45 pm
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The new video reveals that every preconception I had about what this thing is and how you play it was wrong. Itβs even stranger. I guess it is sort of a keyboard, though. |
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Joachim Kettner
From: Germany
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Posted 20 Jun 2022 11:45 pm
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On further reading the article I saw that the trautonium was featured in the soundtrack for Hitchcock's The Birds. I think at the scene at 24:00 the instrument is used:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-7d029UR0k&t=1470s _________________ Fender Kingman, Sierra Crown D-10, Evans Amplifier, Soup Cube. |
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Ian Rae
From: Redditch, England
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Posted 21 Jun 2022 12:12 am
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It isn't a keyboard. The whole point of it is that it doesn't have keys. Instead it has continuous contact plates to give infinitely variable pitch, like a steel guitar or an ondes Martenot (q.v.) _________________ Make sleeping dogs tell the truth!
Homebuilt keyless U12 7x5, Excel keyless U12 8x8, Williams keyless U12 7x8, Telonics rack and 15" cabs |
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b0b
From: Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 21 Jun 2022 7:44 am
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Ian Rae wrote: |
It isn't a keyboard. The whole point of it is that it doesn't have keys. Instead it has continuous contact plates to give infinitely variable pitch, like a steel guitar or an ondes Martenot (q.v.) |
Correct. The black "keys" are actually just tabs to land on pre-defined pitches. You can use your fingers without the tabs to get any pitch in between.
A trio of them sounds great in classical chamber music. It's like a string or woodwind trio where each musician can change instruments at will.
https://youtu.be/k0UA0-heeFo _________________ -πππ- (admin) - Robert P. Lee - Recordings - Breathe - D6th - Video |
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Fred Treece
From: California, USA
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Posted 23 Jun 2022 7:31 am
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Imagine what people would call it if you showed up for a gig with one.
Wow, cool slide keyboard, man... |
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Joachim Kettner
From: Germany
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Posted 24 Jun 2022 2:27 am
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... and is hard to play? _________________ Fender Kingman, Sierra Crown D-10, Evans Amplifier, Soup Cube. |
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From: Cloverdale, CA, USA
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