"Todd Rundgren, Pete Townshend, and The Crazy World of Arthur Brown's Vincent Crane. In Europe, the first no. 1 single to feature a Moog prominently was Chicory Tip's 1972 hit ""Son of My Father"". In 1974, Roland Corporation released the EP-30, the first touch-sensitive electronic keyboard. In 1973, Yamaha developed the Yamaha GX-1, an early polyphonic synthesizer. Other polyphonic synthesizers followed, mainly manufactured in Japan and the United States from the mid-1970s to the early-1980s, and included Roland Corporation's RS-101 and RS-202 (1975 and 1976) string synthesizers, the Yamaha CS-80 (1976), Oberheim's Polyphonic and OB-X (1975 and 1979), Sequential Circuits'"
"1972 and this version reached No. 1 on the UK single chart in February 1972. Since its release, the tune of the chorus of ""Son of My Father"" has been regularly used on the terraces of British football grounds for football chants. A copy of Giorgio's version found its way to studio manager Roger Easterby who then persuaded the British band Chicory Tip to record it. The song, produced by Easterby and Des Champ, was recorded on Christmas Eve 1971 in the studio of George Martin. The song is notable as the first UK number one single to prominently feature"
"Son of My Father ""Son of My Father"" is a song popularised in 1972 by Chicory Tip. The song was originally published in German as ""Nachts scheint die Sonne"" (""In the Night Shines the Sun""), written by Giorgio Moroder with German lyrics by Michael Holm in 1971, and English lyrics by Pete Bellotte. The German version ""Nachts scheint die Sonne"" by Michael Holm was released in 1971, while Giorgio Moroder also released the English version ""Son of My Father"" under the moniker Giorgio. However, Giorgio's version failed to chart in the UK. The song was released by Chicory Tip in"
"the public Polish TV as an intro to sport magazines. The song was used in ""Life on Mars"" series 2 in 2007. In the first season of the Netflix show, Master of None, Son of my Father is the played at the end of episode 2 entitled, The Parents. Son of My Father ""Son of My Father"" is a song popularised in 1972 by Chicory Tip. The song was originally published in German as ""Nachts scheint die Sonne"" (""In the Night Shines the Sun""), written by Giorgio Moroder with German lyrics by Michael Holm in 1971, and English lyrics by"
"he wrote music, ""In May"", premiered in May 2013 in Lancaster and was shown 2014 with overwhelming success e.g. in Glasgow and Brighton. The world premiere of ""To Our Fathers in Distress"", a piece for organ, was performed on 22 March 2014, in London, at the Royal Festival Hall. It was inspired by Hannon's father, Rt Rev Brian Hannon, who suffers from Alzheimer's. Hannon's partner is Irish musician Cathy Davey. The couple live in the Dublin area. He was previously married to Orla Little, with whom he has a daughter, Willow. With Davey, Hannon is a patron of the Irish"
"The cittern or cithren (Fr. cistre, It. cetra, Ger. zitter, zither, Sp. cistro, cedra, cítola)[1] is a stringed instrument dating from the Renaissance. Modern scholars debate its exact history, but it is generally accepted that it is descended from the Medieval citole (or cytole). It looks much like the modern-day flat-back mandolin and the modern Irish bouzouki. Its flat-back design was simpler and cheaper to construct than the lute. It was also easier to play, smaller, less delicate and more portable. Played by all classes, the cittern was a premier instrument of casual music-making much as is the guitar today."
"a streak of seven consecutive U.S. number-one albums. The album reached number two in the UK, and spawned the hit singles ""Rocket Man"" and ""Honky Cat"". The pop album ""Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player"" came out at the start of 1973 and reached number one in the UK, the U.S. and Australia, among other countries. The album produced the hits ""Crocodile Rock"", his first US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 number one, and ""Daniel"", which reached number two in the U.S. and number four in the UK. Both the album and ""Crocodile Rock"" were the first album and single,"
"In addition, an array of session musicians embellish the songs with various instruments. Alongside the de rigueur piano performances (Ian Stewart, Nicky Hopkins), the record included fiddle (Byron Berline), mandolin (Ry Cooder), organ and French horn (Al Kooper), as well as vibes (Bill Wyman) and autoharp (Wyman, Jones). Of more importance, however, was the debut of both renowned saxophonist Bobby Keys on ""Live With Me"", a musician who was integral at giving the group's arrangements a soul/jazz background, and guitarist Mick Taylor, who took on lead guitar duties with technically proficient playing, giving the band a harder rock sound during"
"Ray Jackson and Simon Cowe, and whose ""Fog on the Tyne"" was the biggest selling UK album of 1971–72. The instrument was also used extensively in the UK folk revival of the 1960s and 1970s with bands such as Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span taking it on as the lead instrument in many of their songs. ""Maggie May"" by Rod Stewart, which hit No. 1 on both the British charts and the Billboard Hot 100, also featured Jackson's playing. It has also been used by other British rock musicians. Led Zeppelin's bassist John Paul Jones is an accomplished mandolin player"
"Chacksfield's Tunesmiths"". In early 1953, he had his first top ten hit, ""Little Red Monkey"", on the Parlophone label. This was a novelty recording featuring Jack Jordan on the clavioline, and reportedly the first record featuring an electronic instrument to feature on the UK pop chart. He signed a recording contract with Decca Records in 1953, and formed a 40-piece orchestra with a large string section, the ""Singing Strings"". His first record release for Decca, Charlie Chaplin's theme for his film ""Limelight"", won him a gold disc in the United States, and in the United Kingdom, where it reached No."
"""Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport"" reached number 1 in Australia, and in 1969 ""Two Little Boys"" reached number 1 on both the Irish and UK charts. His 1992 ""Rolf Rules OK?"" album was nominated for the ARIA Music Award for Best Comedy. Harris is credited with inventing a simple homemade instrument called the wobble board. As well as his beatboxing, similar to eefing, Harris went on to use an array of unusual instruments in his music, including the didgeridoo (the sound of which was imitated on ""Sun Arise"" by four double basses), the Jew's harp and, later, the stylophone (for"
"appeared on BBC1 in 1957 with a Höfner President, Page states that his first guitar was a second-hand 1959 Futurama Grazioso, later replaced by a Fender Telecaster. Page's musical tastes included skiffle (a popular English music genre of the time) and acoustic folk playing, and the blues sounds of Elmore James, B.B. King, Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, Freddie King and Hubert Sumlin. ""Basically, that was the start: a mixture between rock and blues."" At the age of 13, Page appeared on Huw Wheldon's ""All Your Own"" talent quest programme in a skiffle quartet, one performance of which aired on BBC1"
"and featured the sound of a locally made musical instrument that the band used instead of the sitar, which was becoming popular on records at that time. The eight-stringed instrument, dubbed the ""octachord"" by the band, had been made by a friend's grandfather and looked like a large mandolin. The octachord was played on the record and at live concert appearances by the band's lead guitarist, Wayne Proctor, who still has the instrument in his possession today. Despite ""In the Past"" being released as the band's fourth single, local radio stations preferred to play the softer B-side over the more"
"Kathryn Tickell Kathryn Tickell, OBE, DL (born 8 June 1967) is an English player of the Northumbrian smallpipes and fiddle. Kathryn Tickell was born in Walsall, in the West Midlands, to parents who originated from Northumberland and who moved back there with the family when Kathryn was seven. Her paternal grandfather played accordion, fiddle, and organ. Her father, Mike Tickell, sang and her mother played the concertina. Her first instrument was piano when she was six. A year later, she picked up a set of Northumbrian smallpipes brought home by her father, who intended them for someone else. Frustrated by"
"The word bodhrán, indicating a drum, is first mentioned in a translated English document in the 17th century. The saxophone featured in recordings from the early 20th century most notably in Paddy Killoran's Pride of Erin Orchestra. Céilidh bands of the 1940s often included a drum set and stand-up bass as well as saxophones. Traditional harp-playing died out in the late 18th century, and was revived by the McPeake Family of Belfast, Derek Bell, Mary O'Hara and others in the mid-20th century. Although often encountered, it plays a fringe role in Irish Traditional dance music. The piano is commonly used"
"the flute, guitar, piano and whistle, Oisín Mac Diarmada on the fiddle, piano, whistle and vocals, Seán McElwain on the banjo, bouzouki and backing vocals and Tristan Rosenstock on the bodhrán and backing vocals. 1. Tom O'Connor's/The Joy of My Life/Handy with the Stick (hornpipes & jigs) 2. Teresa Halpin's/Rathlin Island/Michael Hynes' (reels) 3. The Surround/Up in the Garret/Port na Deorai (slip jigs) 4. Peigin's Peadar (song) 5. Micho Russell's/Bill Harte's/The Green Gates (reels) 6. The Chaffpool Post/The Mayday Hornpipe (barndance & hornpipe) 7. The Liffey Banks/Pat Molloy's (reels) 8. A bhean A' Tí Song 9. Tom Roddy's/The Old Firm"
"The most common instruments used in Irish traditional dance music, whose history goes back several hundred years, are the fiddle, tin whistle, flute and Uilleann pipes. Instruments such as button accordion and concertina made their appearances in Irish traditional music late in the 19th century. The 4-string tenor banjo, first used by Irish musicians in the US in the 1920s, is now fully accepted. The guitar was used as far back as the 1930s first appearing on some of the recordings of Michael Coleman and his contemporaries. The bouzouki only entered the traditional Irish music world in the late 1960s."
"the continent in the 1550s. Other sources include occasional written references in accounts and in literature and visual representations of musicians and instruments. In the late twelfth century, Giraldus Cambrensis noted that ""Ireland uses and delights in two instruments: the cithara and the tympanum; Scotland three: the cithara, tympanum and chorus; Wales three: cithara, tibiae and chorus."" The chithara is probably the clarsach or Celtic harp and the typanum probably a string instrument rather than a form of drum. The identity of the chorus is debated. It has been suggested that the chorus is an early form of bagpipe, but"
"successful Doonan Family Band. Fairbairn learned to play guitar by utilising his brother's instrument. At Wallsend Grammar School, he joined the school's Folk Song Society, which included Dave Richardson (later of The Boys of the Lough) and Alistair Anderson. Fairbairn's first public performance was playing a 5 string banjo alongside Dave Richardson's younger brother, Tich, at a church fete in Howdon-on-Tyne. With fellow schoolfriend Stu Luckley they formed a duo called Trimrigg, and played folk music around Tynemouth, Cullercoats and Whitley Bay. In time the line-up expanded to include Luckley's girlfriend Margi. In 1971, Hedgehog Pie decided to replace the"
"called to participate in the project, along with his friend Sean Potts on tin whistle, Sonny Brogan on accordion and John Kelly on fiddle. They rehearsed weekly in Ó Riada's house in Galloping Green, on the outskirts of Dublin. Following its success, Ó Riada had the idea of forming Ceoltóirí Chualann, a band to play traditional Irish songs with accompaniment and traditional dance tunes and slow airs, arranged with instruments: harpsichord, bodhran, piano, fiddle, accordions, flute, pipes and whistles. The idea of actually arranging folk music, or dance music, had been done on at least one or two 78rpm recordings"
"professional broadcast quality. The Mellotron was eventually dropped in favour of electronic oscillators and synthesizers. British multi-instrumentalist Graham Bond is considered the first rock musician to record with a Mellotron, beginning in 1965. The first hit song to feature a Mellotron Mk II was ""Baby Can It Be True"", which Bond performed live with the machine in televised performances, using solenoids to trigger the tapes from his Hammond organ. This was followed by Manfred Mann, who used its reed sound on their late 1966 single ""Semi-Detached Suburban Mr James"". The band then included multiple Mellotron parts on their follow-up single,"
"in the UK. It reached No. 37 in a 4-week chart run. Oberheim Electronics 8 Voice polyphonic synth, twin keyboard Mellotron Mark V, ARP Instruments Digital Soloist synth, Moog synthesizer & Projekt Electronic Time Control System, Gibson Les Paul custom guitars, Korg PS 3100 polyphonic synth, Roland Corporation GS 500 guitar & GR 500 controller, ARP Solina string Ensemble, Ovation Acoustic guitar, Project Electronic sequencer, Computerstudio digital sequencer, loop Mellotron, ARP Soloist synth, Generalmusic Elka string synth, Oberheim music sequencer OB-1 one, Hohner clavinet, Grand piano, Fender Rhodes, Roland System-100 synth, bass clarinet, cor anglais, tenor & soprano horns, C-flute,"
"while Chris Galland and Delbert Bowers served as a mixing assistant. The track's producer Remi together with Vincent Henry and Czech Film Orchestra, provided the ""Sins of My Father"" instrumentation. ""Sins of My Father"" is a soul song with prominent blues, dub, Motown and reggae influences that runs for three minutes and 56 seconds. The song's instrumentation consists of bass, keyboards, guitar, drums, horns, saxophone and strings which are played by the Czech Film Orchestra. According to Jim Farber of ""Daily News"", ""Sins of My Father"" consists of ""some of the sexy, retro shading"" that can be seen in the"
"home studio, using an E-mu SP-1200 and Akai S950 for the production of beats and samples. The record combines house music with disco and funk, and is characterised by its use of contemporary tribal beats and bass lines and 1970s-style horns and related influences. Henry Street Music released the album's first single, ""Whew!"", to acclaim from club disc jockeys. The second single, ""The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall into My Mind)"", was the project's breakthrough single, reaching number one on the ""Billboard"" Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart and becoming a commercial success throughout Europe, including in the United Kingdom where it"
"Gaelic music in particular. Music instruction was woven through the boys' childhood. Piano or fiddle was introduced first, followed by other instruments that included whistles and pipes, bodhrán, and guitar. All of the Cassidy brothers contribute to the group's harmonies. In addition, each plays several instruments. Odhrán studied the violin in Dublin, Vienna, and Manchester. He went on to play classical concertos with a number of orchestras. He is also accomplished on the uilleann pipes. Seathrún, who gave up his desire to work as a professional harpsichordist, plays piano, guitar, a number of different flutes, and bouzouki. Feargus plays bodhrán"
"harp, the clarinet and the flageolet and learned to play many other instruments. In 1807, he left the band and settled in London, where his son, the entertainer John Orlando Parry, was born. At a concert at Covent Garden, in the same year, he performed on two flageolets set together in frame. It is thought that this inspired the flageolet-maker William Bainbridge to invent his double-flageolet. Parry subsequently became this instrument's most famous player, teacher and proponent. By 1809, he began to compose and publish vocal compositions, especially ballads, and simple pieces for the harp and piano, as well as"
"John Thirkell John ""Johnny"" Thirkell is a British trumpet and flugelhorn player, who has appeared on hundreds of pop, rock, and jazz recordings. Through the 1980s and early 1990s he was on at least one album in the UK Charts continuously, without a break, for over 13 years. In 2009 he had two consecutive UK No.1 singles with Pixie Lott and was the first person to be inducted into the Musician's Union ""Hall of Fame."" In 2015 he scored his 22nd UK No.1 playing on Bruno Mars' ""Uptown Funk"". He is also known for playing with Level 42 in partnership"
"6. Spanish Point 7. One. Two.. Three 8. Busker's Waltz 9. Wee Duck 10. Wibblies 11. Tico Tico 12. Classical 13. That's Stuff Mise (band) Míse are a London-based traditional Irish music band, composed of six young musicians, and featuring a wide range of instruments. In 2002, they were finalists for the prestigious BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award. The group were formed in County Kerry, Ireland. Liam O'sullivan - Accordion Matt Griffin - Banjo, Mandolin, Guitar, Whistles Tim Dowd - Uilleann Pipes, Flute, Whistles Daniel Griffin - Bodhrán Liam Stapleton - Flute, Whistles Anthony Davis - Keyboards Míse released"
"employed by today's players, John used hammers made of thick steel wire, wound with wool; he made these himself from old bicycle spokes. His repertoire consisted mostly of traditional Irish tunes, though with a significant Scottish influence (he also played a number of strathspeys, which he referred to as ""highlands""). His father taught him a number of jigs by the 18th-century composer Walker ""Piper"" Jackson (from the townland of Lisdaun, parish of Ballingarry, Aughrim, County Limerick). John appeared on stage with the well-known group, The Chieftains. John died on November 15, 1983. In 2009 ""The Belfast Hornpipe/The Rights Of Man"""
"on recordings. Occasionally he played a six-string bass guitar, the Fender Bass VI, providing bass on some Beatles numbers (""Back in the U.S.S.R."", ""The Long and Winding Road"", ""Helter Skelter"") that occupied McCartney with another instrument. His other instrument of choice was the piano, on which he composed many songs, including ""Imagine"", described as his best-known solo work. His jamming on a piano with McCartney in 1963 led to the creation of the Beatles' first US number one, ""I Want to Hold Your Hand"". In 1964, he became one of the first British musicians to acquire a Mellotron keyboard, though"
"instrumentation ahead of its time. These 1970s songs using electronic instrumentation would have an influence on 1980s and 1990s dance music, which in turn, would have an influence on dance music in the next century. The song was Sylvester's first Top 10 hit in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at #8 on the UK Singles Chart in October 1978. In Sylvester's home country, the single was his second Top 40 hit, peaking at #36 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart in February 1979. The song also reached #20 on the ""Billboard"" Hot Soul Singles chart. A 12"" single was"
"of stringed instruments in different regions at an early date). Bandora (instrument) The bandora or bandore is a large long-necked plucked string-instrument that can be regarded as a bass cittern though it does not have the re-entrant tuning typical of the cittern. Probably first built by John Rose in England around 1560, it remained popular for over a century. A somewhat smaller version was the orpharion. The bandora is frequently one of the two bass instruments in a broken consort as associated with the works of Thomas Morley, and it is also a solo instrument in its own right. Anthony"
"additional instruments. An audio sample of the band's first hit, ""The Sound of Silence"", softly plays during a cacophony of sounds near the end of the second track, ""Save the Life of My Child"". John Simon, who was credited with production assistance on the song, created the bassline by playing a Moog synthesizer with help from Robert Moog himself. James Bennighof, author of ""The Words and Music of Paul Simon"", finds that ""textural elements are variously supported by a churning groove, percussive, and distorted electronic sounds"" that complement the song's subject matter, suicide suburban youth. The song ""America"" explores the"