Guest MKII Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/machines/martenot/http://ondesmartenot.free.fr/site%20anglais/ondes%20martenot%20uk.htmlhttp://ondesmartenot.free.fr/site%20anglais/mp3%20uk.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted March 21, 2006 Report Share Posted March 21, 2006 Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead has been trying to bring attention to this instrument for a while now. He's used it in a few Radiohead tracks and has composed some pieces for the London Sinfionetta using multiple Ondes-Martenots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MKII Posted March 21, 2006 Report Share Posted March 21, 2006 There are a fair number of classical pieces featuring the instrument, and it's been used by a few bands over the years, more than people realise, but yeah, Mr Greenwood likes his odd instruments, and whatever instrument he plays, it sounds good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted March 21, 2006 Report Share Posted March 21, 2006 Is this next on your wants list, MKll? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MKII Posted March 21, 2006 Report Share Posted March 21, 2006 Is this next on your wants list' date=' MKll?[/quote']It's in the 'Want but will never have' list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted March 21, 2006 Report Share Posted March 21, 2006 Like your Marianne avatar??Never say never!I'll keep my eyes peeled in the second-hand shops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MKII Posted March 21, 2006 Report Share Posted March 21, 2006 Like your Marianne avatar??Never say never!I'll keep my eyes peeled in the second-hand shops.I get the impression the instrument is/was rather sensitive, expensive etc. Marianne? Sir Alan of Cynic, go look at the McDonald & Giles album cover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted March 21, 2006 Report Share Posted March 21, 2006 Got you now....bad of me, seeing as I have the album.All good-looking women look the same to me at my age Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKMartin Posted March 21, 2006 Report Share Posted March 21, 2006 These things are hard to come by. Even eBay couldn't help. Would be interested to know anywhere they could be found.AKM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MKII Posted March 23, 2006 Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 These things are hard to come by. Even eBay couldn't help. Would be interested to know anywhere they could be found.AKMThere is this' date=' [url']http://www.analoguesystems.co.uk/Reviews/fconnection_review.htm for use with modular synths."Johnny & The MartenotsThe French Connection was not born out of nowhere... it was commissioned during 2000 by Johnny Greenwood of the band Radiohead. Greenwood already owned an Ondes Martenot (an instrument built in 1983 by the son of Maurice Martenot) complete with all three resonators, but was nervous about performing with it, fearing that it would be damaged on tour. So he approached Martenot to purchase a second device for live use. Unfortunately for him (but fortunately for the rest of us) his instrument was one of a production run of just 50, and these were long gone - 44 to a music school in Japan, and the remaining five to other musicians. So Greenwood approached Bob Williams, owner of Analogue Systems, to ask whether he would be prepared to design and build a replica for use with Radiohead's existing RS Integrators.Williams accepted the challenge, and in April 2001 demonstrated a prototype to Greenwood. Following a couple of minor modifications, production began, and the first two French Connections were delivered to Radiohead in May 2001.The first public outing for the French Connection was on the BBC's TOTP. in May 2001, on which Radiohead performed 'Pyramid Song' from their album Amnesiac." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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