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Unidentified Siel or Solina string machine

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  • Hopes and Fears

    Keane · Album, 2004

    • Piano and keyboards · InstrumentReportedString sounds for choruses were usually recorded from a Siel or Solina string machine (the text does not say which), often played twice and panned left and right. (recalled with uncertainty)

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Models the Solina String Ensemble, one of the two string machines the source names. If the Siel was used, it is the same kind of instrument but not a model of it.

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