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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 08 2007 at 10:22
Originally posted by rileydog22 rileydog22 wrote:

Also, in Sid Smith's wonderful King Crimson biography, he mentioned that there was a Harpsichord in the studio where the band was recording the debut that appears on various parts of the record, but I haven't ever noticed it.  


No mention of it in the liner notes to the CD.......

Thanks however, to all who have supplied further input. Now just short of two 80 minute burns, based on what I have in my collection, i.e. (list here based on track order on the second burn):
Blood Sweat & Tears: The Battle
Judy Collins: I'll Keep It With Mine
The Waphphles: I Want You
Judy Collins: Both Sides Now
Jimi Hendrix: Burning Of The Midnight Lamp
The Beatles: Piggies/In My Life
Yes: Siberian Khatru
The Doors: Love Me Two Times
Zombies: I Want Her/She Wants Me/Imagine The Swan/Smokey Days
Rolling Stones: Lady Jane
Beggars Banquet: MacArthur Park
Happy The Man: Service With A Smile
Its A Beautiful Day: Girl With No Eyes
The Beatles: Fixing A Hole/All You Need Is Love
Bonzo Dog Do Dah Band: Sport (Odd Boy)

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1. While harpsichord is listed amongst the instruments played on Focus 3, I've managed to miss it - anybody enlighten me to which track?
2. The Stones' Lady Jane sounded to start with an spinnette(?), another mechanically plucked keyboard instrument,  which dates back to at least the Elizabethan period - I had a colleague who owned and played one, and you needed to be less than 6 foot from it to hear it. The harpsichord comes in several verses later and sounds quite different.
3. Siberian Khatru's use of the harpsichord is even shorter than Love's use on Revelation - what some would call 'brief colouring'.
4. Elektra Records studios must have had a harpsichord around 1966 to '8 (other had the Moog), the number of the artists who used it. For instance the two Judy Collins listed here sound to have just about the same arrangement, and really different from the previously mentioned Hard Lovin' Loser.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 08 2007 at 14:07
I can't find the harpsichord on Focus 3 either, but I have found another track : Frank Zappa - 'Twenty Small Cigars' from the Chunga's Revenge album.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 08 2007 at 18:06
Originally posted by Richardw Richardw wrote:

I can't find the harpsichord on Focus 3 either, but I have found another track : Frank Zappa - 'Twenty Small Cigars' from the Chunga's Revenge album.


Thanks for the Zappa now included on the second burn! - 150 minutes recorded to date ~9 minutes of space to fill - keep going.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 08 2007 at 18:42
The Metamorfosi album 'Inferno' has lots of harpsichord. Especially the track " Lussuriosi " . Great album.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 09 2007 at 05:28
Tull's "Songs From the Wood" has some harpsichord-like synths, especially on "Velvet Green" and "Pibroch". Though there's no actual harpsichord there, I think the keyboardists' endeavor to get mediaeval-like sounds (both in tone and playing style) of the modern instruments is a sign of creativity. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 09 2007 at 14:09
As far as prog rock is concerned you'll find loads of songs featuring a harpiscord. Let me just recommend some of them:
- La Mente Vola (Alphataurus)
- La Fabbricante d'angeli (Le Orme: the harpiscord here is used in its muted voice)
- Wanderer (Renaissance)
- The Cask of Amontillado (Alan Parsons Project)
 
Outside Prog rock... well, I can remember harpiscord being played in two very dark metal tracks:
- Black number one (Type O Negative)
- What's going on (behind these walls) (King Diamond)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 09 2007 at 20:10
There are also other songs which contain the harpsichord....
 
Different Drum-Linda Ronstadt
Look to Your Soul-Procol Harum
Never Ever Gonna Give You Up-Barry White
God Only Knows-Beach Boys
Cities-Moody Blues
Sunshine Superman-Donovan
Got to be there-Jackson 5
Two Sisters-Kinks
 
Thank God for Kids who love Obscure Things.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 22 2007 at 14:17
Thanks everybody for for great suggestions, managed to put the following down onto a a CD burn - surprisingly the burner allowed me to put down 80'40" of recording - longest single CD I have now! Deliberately gone for tracks (from my record library) which feature the harpsichord taking the lead (as far as possible), rather than used for a short  break usually to add colour (i.e.  1 to 2 bar filler), and where possible used as rock instrument, rather than one that gives a rococco 18th century feel to a rock track.

1.The Yardbirds: For Your Love

2.The Beatles: Fixing A Hole

3.Jimi Hendrix: Burning Of The Midnight Lamp

4.Renaissance: The Wanderer

5.The Doors: Love Me Two Times

6.The Rolling Stones: Lady Janes

7.Its A Beautiful Day: Girl With No Eyes

8.Love: Stephanie Knows Who
9.Bonzo Dog Do Dah Band: Sport (Odd Boy)
10.Frank Zappa:
20 Small Cigars

11.Yesterdays: Seven

12.Blood Sweat & Tears:The Battle

13.Modern Jazz Quartet: Regret?

14.Pacific Drift: Tomorrow Morning Brings
15.Donovan:
Sunshine Superman
16.The Leaves:
Lemon Princess
17.Nick Drake:
Fly
18.Spooky Tooth:
Sunshine Help Me
19.The Nice:
The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack
20.The Stranglers:
Golden Brown
21.Dr Z:
Evil Woman's Manly Child

22.The Waphphle: I Want You
23.Stackridge:
Fundamentally Yours
24.Judy Collins:
Hard Lovin' Loser

  25. Beggars Opera: MacArthur Park
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