My Omnichord normally gathers dust in the corner of a room. So when someone retweeted into my timeline Karine Polwart asking if anyone in Edinburgh had an Omnichord she could borrow for some filming, I was happy to help, and to see the Omnichord out of its case for a change!

Dear ⁦@DuncanBSS⁩ thanks for the borrow of your Brand New Omnichord! It’s having its own wee moment in the spotlight this morning via ⁦@AdmiralFallow⁩ Louis for my Scottish Songbook. pic.twitter.com/Y4WUYfUexP

— Karine Polwart (@IAMKP) February 26, 2019

It makes its little appearance in this video for her cover of Chance by the Big Country.

This is part of her new album of Scottish covers, Scottish Songbook. It’s out today on lovely red vinyl.

I had always wondered what it would take to get a ‘thank you’ on the back of an album. Now I know. 🙂

Hopefully one day I’ll get round to playing the Omnichord more often myself…