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 | | The Cristal Baschet (not Cristal Bachet, but sometimes called Crystal Organ and in English, Crystal Baschet) is composed of 54 chromatically tuned glass rods, rubbed with wet fingers. |
 | | Born at the same time as «musique concrete» (Pierre SCHAEFFER, Pierre HENRY
), electro-acoustic music and early synthesizers (MOOG
), the Cristal Baschet is their close relative, but completely acoustic, without any electric amplifying-device. |
 | | The Cristal Baschet is used in a lot of fields : ballet-music, songs, movie music, theater-music, jazz, rock, improvisation, tales, contemporary music. |
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