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sheep555

Liquid Emperor
 
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« #10 : 08-13-2003 15:45 »
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(For those from England, an English Horn is a Cor Anglais...ah, the intrices of instrument names)
The Holophonor heard at the start of "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings" is a synth, although programmed so that certain notes vary the pitch slightly, making it out of tune. It's nowhere near the sound of a Cor Anglais (English Horn, whatever...). The Cor Anglais has a much cleaner tone.
The next time it's heard (playing Fur Elise), it's again a synth, but with the same tone layered over a piano like sound.
Fry playing The Grumpy Snail is back to the out of tune horn like synth, with a load of reverb added.
...but the massive tone change occurs when Fry is composing the opera. It's turned into an ethnic flute (and I know, because I play the flute), with could be a synth (you can get some good ethnic sounds out of a Roland), or live.
On a side note, the modern day (modern day? should that be past day?) version of the Holophonor would be the Yamaha WX5/7 (Wind Controller), which is a wind instrument that produces only MIDI and breath control signals based on breathing and key input.
The holophonor sound changes nearly everytime you hear it, but most of the time it's a synth.
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