ondes martenot

ondes martenot, also called Ondes Musicales, (French: “musical waves”), electronic musical instrument demonstrated in 1928 in France by the inventor Maurice Martenot. Oscillating radio tubes produce electric pulses at two supersonic sound-wave frequencies.

The Ondes Marteno is made up of two units: the main section is made up of a keyboard and pull-wire operated by a ribbon controller for the index finger. The keys are capable of slightly shifting, which has the effect of moving the pitch.

The Martenot sounds similar to a Theremin when set for a sine wave (timbre onde), but it is capable of a wider range of timbres. When those timbres are paired with different playing techniques on the ribbon or keyboard, the Martenot can create a variety of sounds and emulate many other instruments.

A player of the ondes Martenot is called an ondist. Ondes Martenot. An ondes Martenot (seventh generation model, 1975) Dates. 1928–present.

Playing the Ondes Martenot using the keyboard: right hand controls the pitch of the note while left hand adjusts the volume by pressing the intensity key. While the Ondes Martenot is one of the oldest electronic musical instruments, it is still played today.

Proponents of the Ondes Martenot these days include Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood, Gorillaz, Tom Waits, and Daft Punk, who featured one in the swooning “Touch” on Random Access Memories.

Most versions and offshoots of the Martenot do offer a sine wave, but players (ondists) generally combine it with other waveforms. A very common combination is the sine-wave (onde) added to a lowpass-filtered square-wave (petite gambe).

Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin used a variation of the theremin (pitch antenna only) during performances of "Whole Lotta Love" and "No Quarter" throughout the performance history of Led Zeppelin, an extended multi-instrumental solo featuring theremin and bowed guitar in 1977, as well as the soundtrack for Death Wish II, ...

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The theremin The theremin can produce a variety of sounds and tones, from a soft, eerie background noise to a loud, wailing sound. The theremin works by utilizing two antennas: one that produces frequency and one that produces volume.

As you can see from the need to use multiple ondes martenot, despite having a keyboard, the instrument couldn't produce multiple pitches at once as a piano does; it's more like a woodwind instrument, producing only one pitch at a time.

The term "polka" actually refers to both the musical style itself, as well as to its corresponding dance. The music characterizes the sounds of the accordion, tuba, trumpet, clarinet, zither, semi-acoustic guitar or fiddle, and a rhythm section.