Korgscrew
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Posted: Oct. 12 2001, 19:28 |
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You'll find a picture of Mike (with a load of labels that some fool has written on it...oh, that was me...) with a whole collection of instruments here on tubular.net as part of the discography, which you will find here http://www.tubular.net/discography/OmmadawnInstruments.shtml
Behind him there is a set of bells by Premier (as mentioned by Ugo). We can probably assume from that that he'll have used them on Ommadawn, and also Platinum.
I can't personally verify what brand were used on Tubular Bells, though I believe that they were hired, rather than owned by anyone involved with the making of the album (and we know what the fate of those was...). I believe they were quite a popular make at the time, and I'm sure Ugo has a reliable source for his information, so no more need be said.
Mike tended to use samples later - from a Fairlight CMI on Crises, for example, and a layer of various things on Tubular Bells II (the bell sound there sounds very much like that of a Korg M1 synthesiser to me, a keyboard I know he used a fair amount on the album, though I have heard that the TB2 bell sound was actually created with the help of a Kurzweil K2000 sampling keyboard).
At the moment, I really don't know who made the real bells used more recently. Something Mike said once makes me think that he didn't keep the bells you see in the Througham picture (it was something about how he'd had trouble finding the right kind of bells for making Tubular Bells II), but I know no more...I'll let you know if I uncover anything new.
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). But this question has been nagging inside me to be asked, just out of interest:
], etc.), generally when making classical music recordings. They were the official suppliers of Abbey Road, to quote one of the most famous ones, but they served minor and recently-built studios as well. 
