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Please help me, the GLW is driving me mad!
Posted by Neil Dyson on 12 December 2010 - 4:13pm.
We've been to see Squeeze supported by the Lightning Seeds this week. The Lightning Seeds keyboard player played a strange looking instrument and she wants to know what the bloody thing is called.
It's teardrop shaped and hand held, as you look at it horizontally the narrow end is towards the left. The broad end has 3 or 4 rows of buttons a bit like an accordion. The other side has a plate which must be some kind of sensor, as the buttons are pressed the sensor is strummed like a guitar making, well, guitar/harp like noises.
Anyone got any ideas?
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An autoharp?
No, it's an electronic
No, it's an electronic fella, do they do electric autoharps?
They do electric Autoharps but if it didn't look like the pic
then maybe it was an Omnichord?
This was a branded device made by Suzuki in the 1980s and was played by 'strumming' the touchplate whilst fingering the buttons.
I was about to suggest something
but Brookster was probably spot on. I'd forgotten the Autoharp, an instrument I'll always associate with John Sebastian
It looks like
It's a digital Autoharp.
Thanks for getting me there folks!
Omnichord?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnichord
This hardly helps, I know
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