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#REDIRECT [[Rocky Mount Instruments]] |
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The '''Rocksichord''' (sometimes referred to as Roxichord) is an [[electronic keyboard]] invented in the [[1960s]] to approximate the sound of the [[harpsichord]]. As its name suggests, it was primarily used in rock music (in the 1960s and 1970s), but it has also been used in jazz (by [[Call Cobbs, Jr.]] and [[Sun Ra]]) and contemporary classical music (in the work of [[Terry Riley]]). |
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The Rock-Si-Chord, as it was named by its manufacturer Rocky Mount Instruments (RMI), a division of Allen Organs Inc, was a solid-state instrument using one or two transistor oscillators per key, and was the first example of a type of instrument generally known as the [[electronic piano]] (contrast [[electric piano]]). Later RMI instruments also included piano sounds. |
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Composer [[George Crumb]] specifies the use of an electric harpsichord in his 1968 composition ''Songs, Drones, and Refrains of Death''; however, he does not specifically call in the score for a Rocksichord, and thus it could also refer to a Baldwin Combo Harpsichord, an electromechanical instrument dating from the same era. |
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==Artists and groups using a Rocksichord== |
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*[[Call Cobbs, Jr.]] |
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*[[Terry Riley]] (on his 1967 album ''A Rainbow in Curved Air'') |
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*[[Stereolab]] (on their 2001 album ''Sound-Dust'') |
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*[[Sun Ra]] |
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*[[Wilco]] (on their 2004 album ''A Ghost is Born'') |
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*[[Quasi]] |
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*[[Sun Ra]] |
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*[[Rick Wakeman]] |
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*[[Dr. John]] |
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*[[Sam Coomes]] |
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==See also== |
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*[[Harpsichord]] |
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[[Category:Harpsichord]] |
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