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He includes three saxophones plus an ondes martenot - a spooky-sounding instrument, invented in 1928, that sounds like its cousin the theremin.
News 2011
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The key players of the ensemble - harpist Julia Thornton, Thomas Bloch on cristal bachet and ondes martenot, and Coulter playing violin and various percussion are sat behind a gauze curtain, over which a pattern reminiscent of the Aurora Borealis slowly fades in and out.
Drowned In Sound // Feed Victoria Falconer 2010
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The ondes martenot were invented by (who else) Maurice Martenot in 1928, one of the first electronic instruments created.
ProgNotFrog Tristan Stefan 2010
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He began to specialize in unusual electronic instruments, such as the theremin and ondes martenot.
The News Tribune Blogs newstips@thenewstribune.com (ROSEMARY PONNEKANTI; 2010
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James plays some of the most esoteric instruments in the world: the glass armonica (a horizontal set of glass bowls stroked on the rims), the cristal baschet and seraphim (which are similar), the electronic theramin and ondes martenot, Don Buchla electro-accoustic instruments such as the Thunder and Lightning, and the theater organ.
The News Tribune Blogs newstips@thenewstribune.com (ROSEMARY PONNEKANTI; 2010
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To see and hear the ondes martenot, scroll down to the second video of this related post.
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Louise Bessette and friends perform keyboard pieces, including four unpublished works for the unusual combination of piano and ondes martenot (that marvellous electronic instrument which also figures prominently in Messiaen's massive
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), which spends half its time accentuating how cute everything is and the other half making peculiar use of the ondes martenot.
DVD Verdict 2009
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), which spends half its time accentuating how cute everything is and the other half making peculiar use of the ondes martenot.
DVD Verdict 2009
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