Maurice Martenot invented the Ondes Martenot Ondes martenot demonstrated by inventor Maurice Martenot The Ondes Martenot (or Ondes-Martenot or Ondes martenot or Ondium Martenot or Martenot or ondes musicale) is an early electronic musical instrument with a keyboard and slide invented in 1928 by Maurice Martenot, and originally very similar in sound to the Theremin. ...
Here is MauriceMartenot, accompanied by his sister Ginette, on the stage of the Paris Opera, May 3, 1928 - only five months after the introduction of the theremin.
The ondes Martenot, although its function is based on the same heterodyne principle as the theremin, is touched by the ondiste.
MauriceMartenot was a cellist first, and an inventor second.
His aim was to produce a versatile electronic instrument that was immediately familiar to orchestral musicians.
The Ondes-Martenot became the first succesfull electronic instrument and the only one of its generation that is still used by orchestras today, Martenot himself became, 20 years after its invention, a professor at the Paris Conservatoire teaching lessons in the Ondes-Martenot.
A solo Ondes Martenot exploiting the glissando effect:"Turungalîla 2".
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