SOUND & CRAFT
Instruments
6 terms
Mellotron
The Mellotron is an early “sampler” keyboard of the 1960s, where each key plays a magnetic tape recording of a real instrument.
Hammond Organ
The Hammond organ is a 20th-century electromechanical keyboard instrument with a characteristic “fat,” warm sound.
Rhodes Piano
The Rhodes piano is an electromechanical piano with a warm, “bell-like” sound.
Synthesizer
The synthesizer is an electronic musical instrument that creates sound through electrical circuits, oscillators, and filters.
Theremin
The theremin is the first mass-produced electronic musical instrument, played without touch by moving the hands through the electromagnetic…
Ondes Martenot
The ondes Martenot is one of the first electronic instruments (1928), with a keyboard and a ribbon, famed for its “otherworldly” singing ti…
