Trautonium
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Trautonium
I had never heard of this instrument before, until today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trautonium
Here's a performance on the original instrument:
https://youtu.be/uIGBaYcIuEI
And here's a video of a more modern one being played:
https://youtu.be/KqnLZXOySyY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trautonium
Here's a performance on the original instrument:
https://youtu.be/uIGBaYcIuEI
And here's a video of a more modern one being played:
https://youtu.be/KqnLZXOySyY
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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 doesnโt. Do you think those things that look like levers are pitch reference markers? That seems a little over the top if thatโs all they do.
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.Ian Rae wrote:They're the same - please update
This is interesting
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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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-7d029UR0k&t=1470s
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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.)
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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.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.)
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
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Doesn't look any harder than a steel guitar.Joachim Kettner wrote:... and is hard to play?
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