Otamatone
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The is an electronic musical synthesizer. Shaped like an eighth note, the ribbon controller on its stem is used to control pitch, while the notes produced by the synthesizer are played from the Otamatone's "head". It was developed in Japan by the CUBE Works toy company and the Maywa Denki design firm, led by the brothers Masamichi and Nobumichi Tosa, and is produced and marketed by Hamee.
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It sits within the topics Electronic musical instruments, Japanese musical instruments and Products introduced in 2009.
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Key facts
- Brand.name
- Otamatoneオタマトーン
- Brand.logo
- Otamatone logo.svg
- Brand.image
- MaywaDenki OtamaTone.jpg
- Brand.caption
- Several Otamatones in a store
- Brand.producttype
- Electronic musical synthesizer
- Brand.currentowner
- Maywa Denki
- Brand.country
- Japan
- Brand.website
- https://otamatone.com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- organization
- Subclass of
- analog synthesizer
- Named after
- tone
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- California
- Headquarters
- Torrance
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Official website
- otamatone.jp
- Image
- MaywaDenki OtamaTone.jpg
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- FAQ URL
- otamatone.com/faq
- Commons category
- Otamatones
- official blog URL
- otamatone.com/news
- official shop URL
- otamatone.com/shop
- user manual URL
- otamatone.com/learn
- official forum URL
- otamatone.com/community-otamatone
- inception
- 2009-00-00
- privacy policy URL
- otamatone.com/privacy-policy
- contact page URL
- otamatone.com/contact
- name in kana
- オタマトーン
- hashtag
- Otamatone
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +81 03 3234 3721
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Description
- History
- Design and structure
- Playing technique
- Variations
- Hamee models
- Maywadenki models
- Comparison with similar instruments
- Reception
- References
The is an electronic musical synthesizer. Shaped like an eighth note, the ribbon controller on its stem is used to control pitch, while the notes produced by the synthesizer are played from the Otamatone's "head". It was developed in Japan by the CUBE Works toy company and the Maywa Denki design firm, led by the brothers Masamichi and Nobumichi Tosa, and is produced and marketed by Hamee.
==Description== The Otamatone is a synthesizer, the body of which is shaped like an eighth note (quaver) (it also somewhat resembles a tadpole, or a ladle, being Japanese for tadpole and ladle), with sound emerging from a "mouth" on the notehead. It requires two hands to play: while one hand holds and squeezes the "head", the other hand controls the pitch of the tune by placing the finger on a ribbon controller on the stem; a higher position on the stem creates a lower sound.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Otamatone” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.