The Sound of Mr. Blue Sky

The instrument that makes a sound like that is an instrument called a vocoder. It builds a chord out of the fundamental sound of your voice, and then puts it back out through the synthesizer so you get this kind of robot voice. Richard Tandy's playing all these kind of dense chords that imply all sorts of harmony on "Mr. Blue Sky"

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