Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste
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Topic: Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste
Posted By: ABC
Subject: Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste
Date Posted: February 02 2010 at 09:26
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Band: Gentle Giant
Album: Acquiring the Taste
Song: Edge of Twilight
A quick question that i could not find a straight answer to anywhere else. What is the first instrument at the beginning of the song (Edge of Twilight)?
Song Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEFio-xJ6jc&feature=PlayList&p=1BDF3A996ED61086&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=13 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEFio-xJ6jc&feature=PlayList&p=1BDF3A996ED61086&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=13
Thanks alot.
P.S i hope this is the right forum for this kind of question.
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Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: February 02 2010 at 13:14
| Hmm. There's dozens of instruments in the first ten/fifteen seconds of that song (as you'd expect from Gentle Giant!). Could you be more specific about which sound it is you're trying to identify? |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: February 02 2010 at 13:24
| sounds like somthing that is also featured on some Beach Boys songs on the Pet Sounds album You Stil Belive in Me |
Posted By: ABC
Date Posted: February 02 2010 at 13:37
Well that is pretty hard to say. How can i describe a sound?
It starts from second one, when the vocals begin. Right from the start when he says "The Moon..." and when he says "Down" after 2 seconds it changes a bit, sounds like it goes down to a lower note.
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Trouserpress wrote:Posted By: ABC
Date Posted: February 02 2010 at 14:21
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Ok, i think i found another band with the same sound.
Art Bears, album: Hopes and Fears, the first song: On Suicide. Can not find a link though. Sounds the same to me.
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Posted By: The Runaway
Date Posted: February 02 2010 at 14:33
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It's a Hammond organ with a ton of reverb. There is also a guitar swell somewhere there. ------------- http://www.formspring.me/Aragorn224" rel="nofollow - Trendsetter win! The search for nonexistent perfection. |
Posted By: ABC
Date Posted: February 02 2010 at 14:40
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Really? It does not sound like it. I do not even think they played hammond.
I actually thought about a Bassoon.
Another piece that sounds quite about the same: Lament by Gryphon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfrnCNe-Jbo&feature=PlayList&p=FEFD37E197465D7D&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=81 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfrnCNe-Jbo&feature=PlayList&p=FEFD37E197465D7D&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=81
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: February 02 2010 at 14:59
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In my ears it's definitely an organ in the higher register. Further on, a reed instrument and a string instrument. My guess: alto saxophone and viola. And vocals of course and tons of echo  |
Posted By: ABC
Date Posted: February 02 2010 at 15:28
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Plus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4v-_p5dU34 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4v-_p5dU34
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYpydtdlWxA&feature=related - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYpydtdlWxA&feature=related
2 Zeppelin songs. The guitar at the start is acoustic or electric?
Thanks.
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: February 02 2010 at 15:44
| Ok, stop now. |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: February 02 2010 at 15:45
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Ok, just for fun forum. Keep going. If you must. |
Posted By: ABC
Date Posted: February 02 2010 at 16:41
| Why is not that related to music? |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: February 02 2010 at 16:47
I didn't realise it was posted in Just For Fun. I thought it was a serious musical question. And a good one, too. 
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Posted By: ABC
Date Posted: February 02 2010 at 16:51
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It was not. The Admin guy moved it. hehe. |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: February 02 2010 at 16:52
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Tony moved it to Just for Fun for whatever reason he deemed. I'm not really sure that it belongs here either as it seems to be a serious music question. ------------- 
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: February 02 2010 at 16:58
It was a serious and good question, and it should be moved to the main Prog Music Lounge. I didn't spend five minutes in front of my hifi installation, listening over and over again to the first notes of Edge Of Twilight for fun  Not that I dislike the Just For Fun section, on the contrary  . But analyzing Edge Of Twilight is a serious musical business. What impression do we give our intelligent new poster if we don't take his question seriously  |
Posted By: ABC
Date Posted: February 02 2010 at 16:58
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Can i at least get an answer regarding te Zep ones? :) |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: February 02 2010 at 17:01
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The first one sounds electric. Great song BTW. The second maybe semi - acoustic. But I don't know for sure. I'm not a guitar expert. |
Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: February 02 2010 at 17:04
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Can we turn this into a forum game? Maybe a guess that instrument game.
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: February 02 2010 at 17:08
| Since the thread moved to Just For Fun, why not? Good idea. |
Posted By: ABC
Date Posted: February 02 2010 at 18:01
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LOL.
BTW, regarding the Gentle Giant one - it just does not sound like an organ. Also, they did not play Hammond as far as i know. I think its a bassoon. What do you think?
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: February 02 2010 at 18:24
I guess Cello  or barriton sax this is some of the instruments playd by Kerry electric piano, organ, mellotron, vibraphone, Moog, piano, celeste, clavichord, harpsichord some of them maybe |
Posted By: Zebedee
Date Posted: February 02 2010 at 18:46
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A combination of clarinet (definitely not a brass instrument) and cello.
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: February 03 2010 at 03:41
Not on the first note, but on the second, when one note changes, there's something 'glimmering' in the sound which I think only an organ can do.
Cello or viola I think. And yes, the organ is mentioned. But the list of instruments is not complete. There is a bassoon being used in the title track, but it gets no mention with any of the band members.
I guess you're right. Clarinet, no saxophone as I thought before. |
Posted By: The Runaway
Date Posted: February 04 2010 at 08:33
First one has an acoustic and a 12 string Fender XII electric, and the second one is a Fender Telecaster. ------------- http://www.formspring.me/Aragorn224" rel="nofollow - Trendsetter win! The search for nonexistent perfection. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 04 2010 at 08:49
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I think it is a cello.
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