# Electronic instrument?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electronic-instrument/804872>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 19, 2017, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electronic-instrument/804872 "2017-12-19T18:40:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![LuckyDe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@LuckyDe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LuckyDe)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electronic-instrument/804872/1 "2017-12-19T18:40:55Z")

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I know from many years of experience that this is the place to ask if you have a question nobody seems to know the answer to, so here I am with another one: I opened this YouTube post ([HOMENAJE A LEONARDO FRANCO " LEONI " LOS IRACUNDOS - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq_K8NbsYhE)) because I had been a fan of the guy. What caught my attention was the instrument I had heard on a National Geographic documentary on Niagara Falls many years ago, an instrument which nobody seemed to be able to identify, and now I hear it again on this clip. It is in the piece of music heard between 1:37m and 2:25m, and it sounds like somebody is whistling. Maybe an improved version of a Theremin? A synthesized sound from a keyboard?

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electronic-instrument/804872/2 "2017-12-19T18:47:26Z")

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Yes, synthesizer, I would think. You can reproduce most any sound that way.

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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electronic-instrument/804872/3 "2017-12-19T19:09:10Z")

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**Moderator Action**

Moving thread from GQ to Cafe Society, our home for music and instrument related questions.

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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electronic-instrument/804872/4 "2017-12-19T19:10:52Z")

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> [@TubaDiva](#):
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> Yes, synthesizer, I would think.

Sure sounds like a synthesizer to me. That’s not even a difficult sound to get on an old fashioned analog synth.

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**Author:** ![LuckyDe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@LuckyDe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LuckyDe)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2017, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electronic-instrument/804872/5 "2017-12-20T05:46:49Z")

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Yes, I guess that’s it—a synthesizer. Thank you for the input, guys.