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Post by missclarktree on Apr 24, 2022 18:52:20 GMT
Hello all. Please could anyone tell me what instruments are used in the 1960's Maigret theme? Obviously the tune is played on an accordion, but I can't identify the rhythm instrument, and then there's the twiddly bits at the end of each line, which sound mandolin-like to my ears.
I've searched the entire internet for this information and can't find it anywhere, but I'm dying to know.
A word of warning - if this worm gets into your ears it will be there for weeks!
(The version I've picked is the one that's most like the TV series)
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Post by forestdweller on Apr 24, 2022 19:24:57 GMT
I can hear a banjo, possibly a zither (think the Harry Lime theme) and what sounds like a mandocello, but I might be totally wrong as I have not got my headphones to hand!
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Post by ocarolan on Apr 24, 2022 21:08:17 GMT
... certainly a banjo in there Robbie, I agree, and some sort of big mando family instrument and I reckon there's a piano tinkling away in there too. Oh, and double bass plucked too.
Keith
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Post by martinrowe on Apr 25, 2022 7:24:18 GMT
Don't know, Keith and Robbie seem to be right but I don't think that that's the whole story, I'll go as far as to say that it sounds like a plucked string instrument - amazing how things change though isn't it. Anyone got any old Edith Piaf records with a list of the instruments played printed on the the back sleeve.
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Post by martinrowe on Apr 25, 2022 7:26:37 GMT
... or a low register harpsichord?
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Post by missclarktree on Apr 25, 2022 15:06:28 GMT
Thanks everyone for your ideas. I've been trying to find the score but only found a solo piano version. I did find this photo of Ron Grainer with an instrument that I've never seen before. www.theaudiodb.com/artist/154866
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Post by minorkey on Dec 26, 2023 21:36:28 GMT
Thanks everyone for your ideas. I've been trying to find the score but only found a solo piano version. I did find this photo of Ron Grainer with an instrument that I've never seen before. www.theaudiodb.com/artist/154866Looks like a rabab
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Post by missclarktree on Jan 9, 2024 19:25:58 GMT
Since posting this, I've found one that's identical to the TV version:-
Isn't it exhausting having obsessions. It hasn't gone away, even after all this time. I just need to see this being played. I particularly like the strange chord at 0.52-53, whatever it is.
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