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This technique was first demonstrated on American TV by a musician’s 1972 performance of “Close to You” on The David Frost Show. For 10 points each:
[10h] A namesake unit uses the human voice for what technique? This technique modulates an instrument, commonly a guitar, through a plastic tube in the singer’s mouth.
ANSWER: talk box [reject “vocoder”]
[10e] That performance was by this blind Motown musician, whose 1970s hits included “Isn’t She Lovely,” “Sir Duke,” and “Superstition.”
ANSWER: Stevie Wonder [or Stevland Hardaway Morris]
[10m] In his performance, Wonder used the talkbox to modulate electric “B-3” versions of these instruments made by Hammond. An early use of the electric version of these instruments was the 1962 instrumental “Green Onions.”
ANSWER: organ [or electric organ]
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