What do David Bowie, The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Radiohead, The Troggs, The Human League, The Osmonds and The Beach Boys have in common? They've all used unusual musical instruments on big hit records. Strange Sounds tells the stories behind these recordings and many more. It includes some of the biggest names in pop music from the 1950s to the present, explaining and illustrating what instruments were used - their history, how they were played, how the artists came to choose them - and in the process uncovering a parallel history of pop music, one where guitars and drums make way for claviolines, ocarinas and stylophones. The accompanying CD includes demonstration recordings of many of the instruments documented, as well as incidental music composed by the author, recorded using a unique line-up of the instruments featured in the book.
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Outstand book on weird instruments in Pop,
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Lots of good descriptions and nice history. For instance many scores that are attributed to the Theremin actually were performed on a different instrument altogether which a session player invented because of the difficulty of tuning the Theremin.
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The Theremin was not the first electronic musical instrument, but of all the early attempts to make an electronic musical instrument it is the best known. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Silver Apples, The Beatles, Rhythm Ace, Brian Jones, New York, Bee Gees, Ravi Shankar, Donca Matic, George Harrison, Rhythm King, Joe Meek, Melody Maker, Barry Gray, The Troggs, Delia Derbyshire, Maurice Martenot, Max Crook, The Kinks, The Thirteenth Floor Elevators, World War, Big Jim Sullivan, John Barry, Little Feat, Paul Tanner, Ace Electronics New!
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The Theremin was not the first electronic musical instrument, but of all the early attempts to make an electronic musical instrument it is the best known. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Silver Apples, The Beatles, Rhythm Ace, Brian Jones, New York, Bee Gees, Ravi Shankar, Donca Matic, George Harrison, Rhythm King, Joe Meek, Melody Maker, Barry Gray, The Troggs, Delia Derbyshire, Maurice Martenot, Max Crook, The Kinks, The Thirteenth Floor Elevators, World War, Big Jim Sullivan, John Barry, Little Feat, Paul Tanner, Ace Electronics New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Complete Beatles Chronicle by Mark Lewisohn on page 3, and Back Matter
- Captain Scarlet: Indestructible No. 1 (Captain Scarlet albums) by Gerry Anderson on page 75, and page 77
- Popular Music Hb (Media Focus) by Roger Thomas in Back Matter
- Jim Morrison: Dark Star by Dylan Jones on page 121
- Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Original Edition) by A. A. Milne on page 88
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