March 03, 2006
Omnichord
Omnichords are cool. I want one. They're like autoharps but better. Autoharps have little strings and tuning pegs. Omnichords have chord generators powered by AY-5-1317A Semi-Conductors (basically P-Channel MOS ICs which accept 12 basic frequencies and output notes to form major, minor, and 7th chords). Omnichords also have a feature called the touch plate. You run your finger along the touch plate and the omnichord goes twinkle (blerrk skeetle doop OO kees dah) dee. It's like filtering an Autoharp through an Atari. Neat. I want one.
Googling "Omnichord" turns up this page.
Cool. They've updated the omnichord to the QChord. Interesting. I wonder what the QChord sounds like?
Uh-oh.
My favorite QChord artists:
(They must have forgotten to include that famous QChord bluesman, Old Blind Boy QChord Wheezenthal, on their artist page. Darn. He's awesome.)
And no talk of the Omnichord can go without mentioning The Omnichord Album by The High Fidelity (thank you for your dedication to the instrument and your awesome album art).
Posted by Red Chuck at March 3, 2006 12:33 PM