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The ARP 2500 in Steven Spielberg’s classic 1977 film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. ARP Instruments' VP of Engineering, Phillip Dodds, was sent to install the unit on the film set. Not only that, he would be subsequently cast as Jean Claude, the musician who plays the sequence in an attempt to communicate with the mothership. John Williams wrote over 300 examples of the iconic five-tone motif before Steven Spielberg chose the one incorporated into the film's signature theme. #synth #synths

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