The Analogues - The Clavioline (English subtitles)

Bart van Poppel about The Beatles and the Clavioline

[@garyjordan2019]

Just heard "baby your a rich man" song on the radio and was intrigued of what instrument they used to get that sound. It's been a long time since i listen to any Beatles catalog of songs and it looks like this weekend i will revisit that sound. Thank you Bart for demonstrating and explaining how it was used.

[@JustSayN2O]

You have incredible talent and so do your band-mates

[@flybeep1661]

Also used on Del Shannon's Runaway, but in way higher octave.

[@R3TR0R4V3]

Wow, yeah you're right.. I can definitely hear that now. Very cool, thanks for sharing!

[@willdatsun]

you are total geeks for authenticity. thank goodness.

[@MrDiddyDee]

That sums up Bart's passionate attention to detail. He has to replicate gig after gig something The Beatles did maybe only once in the studio. Something that sounds not quite right... was it deliberate, was it a mistake they just liked and let stay? Was that overdub intricately crafted or a random improvisation they chose? Either way, it's like George Harrison said in 'Only a Northern song' "... You may think the chords are going wrong, but they're not, he just wrote it like that..."

[@polytheneprentiss1534]

Love your comment - so correct and well put!

[@CarlosVelasquez-ns6xr]

John was a genius, it does sound similar to an Indian music instrument when played with an 🍊 orange.

[@asktheidiotgaming539]

0:38 Telstar by the Tornadoes

[@CaptKundalini]

I didn't think anyone would get that. Well done!

[@leesanna7835]

Wow, thank you so much, that was great 👍

[@markrichards3747]

Kerry Livgren of Kansas writes about the Clavioline in his latest book Miracles Out of Somewhere. I just finished that chapter and had to see and hear what he was talking about!

[@g10118]

Damn I was tired and for a little while thought this guy was talking English but had been going hard for a few days.. Anyways, the clavioline is not unknown to Indian musicians either, you can see demos of them being used for these and other sounds that fit the scaling.

[@Ned88Man]

I thought the same thing

[@dikshabharati5168]

My favourite vadyayantra

[@vickielawson3114]

Wow, really cool!

[@errollzastre7380]

That would make sense that some object was rolled over the keys during the recording. The Clavioline sounds great on "Baby You're A Rich Man", but the lines sound too complex for Lennon to have played them. Originally, it was speculated to be a sped-up trumpet.

[@stellapolanco6860]

Lennon was an artist and as he said: "Give me any damn instrument and I'll make something worthwhile out of it". We're talking about the same Lennon who played the heavy bass on "Helter Skelter", the same Lennon who played the jazz guitar solo in "Honey Pie", the same Lennon who played the baroque organ in "Your Mother Should Know", the accordion and harmonica in "Rocky Raccoon", etc. Doing the clavioline part and rehearsing it a little is not impossible for anyone accomplished musician.

[@lundsweden]

Weird little mini keys on this thing, especially those short black keys.

[@Suppiebeatle]

Studio Rolling Stones. And Mick Jagger sings too on Baby You're A Rich Man.

[@bapples]

His Holy Modal Majesty On Super Session (Al Kooper) great clavioline

[@cesarmontejano1249]

Wow! I've always thought It was The sound of some Bagpipes hehehe so wrong!!

[@jasonb68754]

When he says they took an orange, I thought it meant a drug.

[@saxonett]

No, they used a lowray organ