1950s Jenny Ondioline Demo Record - Synthesizer Precursor
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This is mindblowing!
Today's workstations have nothing on this electronics masterpiece...words fail me :)
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06:20 "I'm Popeye The Sailor Man..."
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Extremly surprised, very interesting instrument, thanks for posting!
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Found 'this' from my love of STEREOLABS 1994 track 'Jenny ondioline', which demonstrates the unique hazy hypnotic waves.
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Wonderful, thank you!
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Thanks for posting this fascinating video.
Anyone interested in very early electronic instruments might want to do a search for "Novachord Video" - this is a presentation of a partially restored 72 year old Novachord in action - a 1/4 ton, 163 tube monster with 72 note polyphony, a VCA on every key with central ADR envelope control, filters and a 6 channel vibrato system - it cost $1850 in 1939
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his holy modal majesty by al kooper and mike bloomfield uses one of this crazy things and just happens to be super sweet and will mess with your head.
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Thank you for posting this!
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Fantastique !
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Hi --
On my Ondioline, those two knob are actually potentiometers. The add an additional octave to some of the voices. In other words, two octaves at once, while playing one note.
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"Aloha Oe" - a classic Hawaiian native song.
Nice work. For your info, that's the legendary Jean-Jacques Perrey, playing both Ondioline (right hand), and piano (left hand), at the same time. This was the demo record he made for Georges Jenny, the inventor, - all before he left his homeland France, for his future success in America.
- Dana Countryman
happymoogman 2 years ago 6
Thanks for the info, I sure wish I had known that at the time I posted it, it got a lot of interest on Matrixsynth and other sites, people would have loved that info!
jafafah0ts 2 years ago
absolutely fascinating - thanks for this!
AudioBooTH 2 years ago
My pleasure. If you check my channel you'll see I've posted a bunch of other instrument & synth demos, but I think this is my favorite - the thing just sounds beautiful.
jafafah0ts 2 years ago