Presentation
Edito
Range
Tuning
How to play
a note
How the sound is produced
Where the sound can be dispatched
The timbres
Index
Credits
Contact
 
 

Name : the ondes Martenot, the ondes musicales Martenot,
the Martenot, the onde, the ondéa (by the french company SEAM)

Inventor : Maurice Martenot

Place of birth : Martenot’s engineering factory in Neuilly, a city in the suburb of Paris

Year : 1928

First presentation : May 8, 1928 at the Paris Opera

History : 7 types of instruments developed and built at the Martenot’s factory. The ondéa is the new instrument (based on the Martenot’s idea) developed and built by the SEAM company.