Name this instrument...

Tzetze

We were listening to some blues on the way home in the bandwagon last night, and a couple of minutes after hearing a fiddle slap bang in the middle of blues (a first for me, sounded class though), there came an instrument that sounded, to me, just like those old instruments that were found in classrooms all over the country when I was a kid.

They were basically a single octave (IIRC) keyboard that you blow through on one end, hold a strap on the underside and play the keyboard bit at right angles to your face.

What were these called?

Tanita Tikaram (sp?) used one in "Twist in my sobriety".

fitz

Thats called a Melodica.
You can pick them up in a few of the music shops here in Dublin.

Class instrument.

Tzetze

Ah yeah, that's it! Cheers.

Now, to talk our keyboardist into getting herself one.

fitz

Well, they cost about 40 yoyos, and come with a handy carrycase.
Well worth the investment.
Very characteristic sound, unusual to hear.

WetDaddy

A melodica is indeed a cool instrument...

But be careful. Clinic use it quite a lot, so much in fact that it starts to get a bit irriating. Like orchestral hits in over-produced pop tunes...

However having said that, how cool is it to use an instrument that my 4th class teacher used to use?


-S

Eoin Madsen

Originally posted by deathfunk
Like orchestral hits in over-produced pop tunes...

Don't be silly, you can never have enough orchestral hit samples...

shabbyroad

rather partial to twangy DX7 basslines myself.....

(DX7 bass + orchestra stabs + massive reverb)*(n-n-n-n-n-n-nineteen)

Damon Albarn is fond of his melodica.