Organologia é o estudo dos instrumentos musicais.
Vamos conhecer quais instrumentos foram tocados em algumas músicas do Queen?
Percussões, drum machines e tambores específicos.
– Tambourine [similar ao pandeiro]: Keep Yourself Alive, Liar, Seven Seas Of Rhye, ’39, Teo Torriatte, Don’t Stop Me Now, Dragon Attack, One Year Of Love, My Baby Does Me
– Cowbell [sino]: Liar, Great King Rat, Who Needs You, Stealin’.
– Castanholas: The Fairy Feller’s Master Stroke.
– Sinos: The March Of The Black Queen.
– Marimba [xilofone]: The Loser In The End.
– Maracas: Who Needs You, More Of That Jazz, Put Out The Fire.
– Triângulo: Killer Queen, Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy, Don’t Stop Me Now.
– Gongo: Ogre Battle, Bohemian Rhapsody, White Man, Teo Torriatte.
– Timpani [Tímpanos – tipo de tambor]: Bohemian Rhapsody, God Save The Queen, Was It All Worth It, Who Wants To Live Forever, In The Death Cell, Escape From The Swamp, Crash Dive On Mingo City.
– Woodblocks [ pequeno tambor de madeira, com fenda]: Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy.
– Hawk-bell [percussão]: Mustapha.
– Vibraslap [percussão]: Hijack My Heart, Scandal, Party.
– Bongô [2 tambores unidos]: Mad The Swine.
Drum Machine Linn LM-1 e LinnDrum: HOT SPACE – THE WORKS [Baterias Eletrônicas]
– Epad Simmons
– Pollard Syndrum
Guitarras e baixos:
– Gibson Chet Atkins CE: I Want It All, Innuendo, Is this The World We Created…? (ao vivo), Who Wants To Live Forever (ao vivo).
– Violão de cordas de nylon: Who Needs You.
– Guitarra elétrica de 12 cordas: Under Pressure.
– Guitarra flamenca: Innuendo (tocada por Stewe Howe).
– Ukulele Shletone Banjo: Bring Back That Leroy Brown.
– Ukulele: Good Company.
– Baixo sem trastes: ‘39 (ao vivo), My Melancholy Blues (ao vivo).
– Burns Double Six 12 cordas: Long Away.
– Guitarra personalizada Skull & Bones: It’s A Hard Life (videoclipe).
– Guitarra Ovation: Is This The World We Created…?
Cordas
– Contrabaixo: Bring Back That Leroy Brown, Death On Two Legs (Dedicated To…), ‘39.
– Toy Koto: The Prophet’s Song.
– Harpa orquestral: Love Of My Life.
– Orquestra completa: Flash Gordon, Who Wants To Live Forever.
Teclados:
– Órgão: Liar [não creditado, possivelmente Freddie], Now I’m Here, Under Pressure, The Wedding March, Breakthru.
– Cravo Goff: The Fairy Feller’s Master Stroke.
– Piano elétrico: You’re my Best Friend, Sail Away Sweet Sister, Cool Cat.
– Piano de cauda elétrico Kawai EP 308: Radio Ga Ga (ao vivo), A Kind Of Magic (ao vivo).
– Piano vertical: Bring Back That Leroy Brown, Killer Queen, Seaside Rendezvous.
– Harmônio: Teo Torriatte.
– Piano Jangle: Killer Queen.
– Clavinete Hohner: Cool Cat.
Outros instrumentos:
– Saxofone: Action This Day (tocado por Dino Solera), One Year Of Love (tocado por Steve Gregory).
– Trompas: Staying Power (tocado por Arif Mardin).
– Vocoder Roland VP-330: Radio Ga Ga, Machines.
Sintetizadores:
– Dubreq Stylophone: Seven Seas Of Rhye.
– Oberheim OB-X e OB-Xa: The Game, Flash Gordon.
– Oberheim OB-8: Radio Ga Ga, Machines.
– Roland Jupiter 8: Hot Space, I Want To Break Free, Radio Ga Ga.
– Roland D50: Breakthru, Was It All Worth It, The Miracle, I Want It All, The Invisible Man.
– Yamaha DX7, DX7 IID: Who Wants To Live Forever, Princes Of The Universe, One Year Of Love, My Baby Does Me.
– Fairlight CMI-II: I Want To Break Free, Machines.
■ Nota – O Queen foi um dos dois únicos artistas a possuir um CMI Fairlight Series IIx que tinha um disco rígido instalado. Foi uma atualização muito rara e o outro era de Andy Richards, lendário programador Fairlight e tecladista de sessão).
Kurzweil K-250: Who Wants To Live Forever.
Korg M1: Innuendo, The Show Must Go On, I’m Going Slightly Mad, Don’t Try So Hard, Bijou.
E-mu Morpheus Z-Plane: Untitled.
EMU Emulator II: Who Wants To Live Forever.
Fonte –
Queen Vinyls
Por Nicola Bizzo
