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    Posted: August 01 2012 at 18:57
awesome!  thanks for the tip,  I adore this instrument, I think I might buy one!  Just one of those sounds that I always associate with the mind bending sounds of the 70s...  
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Points: 23104 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2012 at 11:36
The flexatone is a wonderful quirky instrument. If you want to hear it way up front in music, better put on Can's Ege Bamyashi and listen to Sing Swan Song where it practically works as a lead instrument.
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Points: 6632 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2012 at 11:15
Indeed it's a Flex A Tone, just google it and you can watch it on YouTube.
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It's a Flex-a-tone.
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Points: 933 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 31 2012 at 20:55
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqlxZgsTczo

here we go, Klaus Blasquiz is actually playing it here starting at 5:21

so what is this sucker??


Edited by mithrandir - July 31 2012 at 20:56
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hmm sounds familiar. not sure, though
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Points: 933 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 31 2012 at 20:42
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgCxCZNkQ9E

that warbling percussive sound at 0:15 in this vid when the big creature licks the other,

it's a hand held device but I don't know it's name? I know all kinds of bands use it like Magma and hosts of others from the 70s, I've even seen it played...but for the life of me I don't know what it is called...please help?


Edited by mithrandir - July 31 2012 at 20:44
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