Please give us the reason for your assessment in the following text box and – if possible – your e-mail address for further questions. Not much use in repeating a (or even several) Wikipedia article(s) here, of course, which are publicly available to all already. Act 2, Scene VIII, "opens with a long treble melismatic line of quite astounding expression and profundity—qualities in no small way attributable to its scoring for saxophone and musical saw. In these examples, the Flexatone plays a kind of “counter-rhythm” in the African tradition, though not without atmospheric aspects. In Ethiopia’s musical culture, you have the interesting Mesenqo instrument – a single-stringed bowed lute - with similarities to a violin, only older.

At least on these Culture albums One Stone and Payday, which are further nonetheless overall nice albums, in my opinion (despite subdued percussion, haha).Zuerst war ich über den Preis von LP erschrocken, aber auch hier hat Thomann wieder einmal bewiesen, dass es auch um einiges günstiger geht und trotzdem die Erwartungen erfüllt.

Khachaturian included a musical saw in the score for his first piano concerto, a part now usually played by a violin. Quite regularly in Roots Reggae from the 1970s and 1980s too (and later) for instance, where it was not “standard”, but regularly employed by several active studio percussionists in Reggae (Scully, Sticky, Sky Juice, and Bongo Herman), and younger percussionists (of which Sidney Wolfe and Denver Smith can be mentioned, as well as the even younger Hector Lewis (b.In the reggae songs with the Flexatone use, providing a kind of counter-rhythm with a special (glissando, saw-like) sound, is mostly its function. Notable musicians who associated the flexatone in their classical music were Gyorgy Ligeti, Hans Werner Henze, and Arnold Schoenberg. Ich wollte dieses Percussion-Element unbedingt in meinen Musikproduktionen einsetzen und war ganz glücklich, als mir endlich jemand bei Thomann den Namen verriet, nachdem ich ihm eine Aufnahme vorspielte. However, in Germany, the flexatone was banned, along with other instruments like cowbell, as it was deemed alien to the German spirit. If using the instrument with the balls removed, indicate strikes with single notes followed by arrows indicating the direction of the glissando (similar to a guitar tab pitch bend).

The use of this instrument allows a modulation of the sound and a rhythmic approach much more varied than on a classic flexatone it seems to me . In Israel Vibration’s My Brother’s Keeper, the Flexatone is used more subtly, also softer or “buried”/”drowned” more in the mix. One can overall conclude, that Reggae is a music genre with relatively much use of extra, acoustic percussion (beyond the drum kit), and as part of that the use of the Flexatone is not uncommon. I listened and listen quite some Reggae, and keep quite up to date, so a sensible list that is illustrative is quite possible.Added to this, however, are two wooden balls on either side, thus sounding when the “metal blade” as such is pressed/struck by thumb, combining thus a musical/singing saw with bell/glockenspiel-like sounds, with glissando (or trembling, quivering) effects.

In the link below you can see at 1 minutes 56 seconds the legendary skully simms used a kind of flexatone. Aside from jazz and Reggae, the flexatone was also used in classical music, in pop recordings, as well as in other genres. I further – just as another example – also seem to notice the (subtle) use of the Flexatone in Culture’s 1996 album One Stone, as part of wider percussion. György Ligeti used it in many of his works, such as his 1988 concerto for piano [26] [27] [28] [29] second movement and his opera Le Grand Macabre (1977). The freer, distinctive take on soul by Curtis Mayfield, however, allowed a free spirit like ‘Master’ Henry Gibson (Mayfield’s percussionist) to add more extensively a wide range of percussion (conga, rototom, bongos a.On it, the Flexatone is quite prominent, not “drowned in the mix”, as elsewhere, or only heard in the intro or bridges of songs, but actually “carrying” the song (with mainly a 5-3 pattern/riff). The Wikipedia article on the Flexatone describes it as one such later invention, patented first in the 1920s in Britain and soon after the US, and used early on as “funny sound effect”, for theatrical use rather, but also in jazz music circles.