Pollard Syndrum

<h2 id="legacy">Legacy</h2>
<p>Although the Syndrum was capable of many different sounds, the one favored by most recording artists[<i>who?</i>] was a sine wave that pitch-bends down; it can be heard at the beginning of "<a href="/facts/Good_Times_Roll/QoKnyBAR">Good Times Roll</a>", the opening track of <a href="/facts/The_Cars/jjFqToNo">the Cars</a>' <a href="/facts/The_Cars_(album)/qGA6sVBU">1978 debut album</a>, throughout <a href="/facts/Sparks_(band)/bHQFsKWK">Sparks</a>' 1979 album <i><a href="/facts/No._1_in_Heaven/P7TrCcpk">No.1 in Heaven</a>,</i> particularly the opening track "Tryouts for the Human Race" and "<a href="/facts/The_Number_One_Song_in_Heaven/gVVERrCm">The Number One Song in Heaven</a>", and the percussion break of "Rydeen" by <a href="/facts/Yellow_Magic_Orchestra/SBT8oPno">Yellow Magic Orchestra</a>. <a href="/facts/Joy_Division/qkISeV1m">Joy Division</a> also used it on their debut album <a href="/facts/Unknown_Pleasures/KsvbyGfF">Unknown Pleasures</a>. American post-punk band <a href="/facts/Flipper_(band)/MjvyJ8mw">Flipper</a> used the Syndrum on their recordings of "Sex Bomb". After the Syndrum’s introduction to the marketplace, several companies produced electronic drum units, such as the <a href="/facts/Synare/1IcwKIKY">Synare</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a>
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<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.rjblog.net/sounds/SydrumCloneDemo.mp3">Syndrum audio clip at the Radio JunkBox</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Smith, Kevin C. (2013). Recombo DNA: The Story of Devo, or How the '60s Became the '80s. Jawbone Press. ISBN 9781908279408. <a href="9781908279408" target="_blank">9781908279408</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Dean, Matt (2012). The Drum: A History. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. pp. 378–79. ISBN 9780810881709. <a href="9780810881709" target="_blank">9780810881709</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Dean, Matt (2012). The Drum: A History. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. pp. 378–79. ISBN 9780810881709. <a href="9780810881709" target="_blank">9780810881709</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Smith, Kevin C. (2013). Recombo DNA: The Story of Devo, or How the '60s Became the '80s. Jawbone Press. ISBN 9781908279408. <a href="9781908279408" target="_blank">9781908279408</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>Dean, Matt (2012). The Drum: A History. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. pp. 378–79. ISBN 9780810881709. <a href="9780810881709" target="_blank">9780810881709</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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Pollard Syndrum