What is the Duck on Duke?
“Uhm, It was this kind of, it was an attempt..it was a way of triggering…this was back in the early days, you know, before technology could sort of give you all the things you wanted. It was a way of triggering the, I think it was a Yamaha CS-80 synthesizer. We triggered it using Phil’s voice. But he used it, instead of — this was trying to get a sort of brass sound on a couple of tracks, particularly Behind The Lines — and the way of doing it was using a duck-call. You know, one of those duck-call things you can get. We used that into the microphone, and it got just the right kind of sound, so that we put it down that we played a ‘duck’. We hoped a few people would ask a question about it — you’re the first person I think since the album was released who’s asked us about that! So there you go.” – tony banks.
