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Here I’m building a soprano 14” scale ukulele on a Chinese Bottle gourd.
Ceolas houses the largest online collection of information on celtic music, and has links to hundreds of related sites.
American Mavericks: Harry Partch’s Instruments
By 1969, the year he recorded “Delusion of the Fury,” Harry Partch had designed 27 new instruments, all to be played on stage at the same time in a spatial ritual theater. These instruments were made to be beautiful in sound, vision, and “magical purpose.”
From the simple 3-string cigar box guitar instructional that started the Cigar Box Guitar Revolution to historical plans dating back to the 1800’s…we’ve collected them all.
This blog is dedicated to the sublime instruments called nose flutes which produce the most divine sound ever.
We have chosen to discard all the native models from S. Pacific and Asia, for they need fingering to be played.
We’ll concentrate on “bucal cavity driven” nose flutes : the well patented and trademarked metal or plastic ones,
plus, by a condemnable indulgence, some wooden craft or home-made productions.
The main body of the Eigenharp software is now Open Source software, released under the GPLv3. If you are interested this enables you to develop Agents, help fix bugs and contribute to the ongoing Eigenharp project.
fagerstrom – electronic bagpipes
Highly portable. Fits in your pocket: only Ø16 x 249 mm (Ø5/8″ x 10″)
Contains all the electronics as well as the battery: no extra box to plug in.
Uses standard Ø3.5 mm stereo earphones: perfect to play on buses, trains etc. Ideal for the commuter.
Unforgiving at detecting crossing noise.
Authentic bagpipes sounds.
Drones sound with different drone configurations.
Built-in metronome.
Adjustable contact sensitivity.
Pitch adjustable within a two octave range.
Recording capabilities, with variable playback speed.
MIDI output (cable included).
The ultra-versatile Pico is simple to use and anyone can play it. Light and portable, it packs a powerhouse of features. Use it to play solo, play and record loops, change scale and key, transpose, alter tempo, program beats, create arrangements, switch and layer multiple sounds, all while playing live. It’s ideal as a solo instrument or for playing in a band.
Practicing with an Irish Flute: Video Series | eHow.com
In this free video series learn how to practice your skills playing the Irish Flute from professional Irish Flute player David Cantieni. Watch these videos to learn how to produce good tone on the Irish flute, how to breath deeply while playing the Irish flute, how to exercise your fingers, how to produce even sounding rolls on the Irish flute, how to use a metronome to practice rolls on the Irish flute, how to improve your rhythm, how to increase your tempo when playing the Irish flute, and how to play a difficult traditional Irish song.
VSTI Instruments (104)
A large collection of free VSTi instruments, from simple to overwhelming
Ancient Celtic music – encyclopedia article – Citizendium
The ancient Celts had a distinct culture, which is shown by their very sophisticated art work. The Hallstatt culture and especially the later La Tène culture are characterized by a high aesthetic level, which must have also left traces in Celtic music and musical practices. Music will surely have been an integral part of this ancient cross-European culture, but with only very few exceptions its characteristics have been lost to us.
Audio d-touch is a collection of applications for real-time musical composition and performance, with very special user interfaces. The collection includes a drum machine and a sampling sequencer, both are controlled by spatially arranging physical objects on an interactive table surface. Each object represents a sound, and its position with respect to the surface is mapped to certain playback parameters.
HurdyGurdy: An automated hurdy gurdy by Godfried-Willem Raes
This robot is a bowed bass instrument with two strings of equal length, covering a range of nearly four octaves. The construction of the bow mechanism is a further development of our first designs in this direction, implemented in Flex, our singing saw. The bowing speed, and consequently the loudness, can be controlled as well as the direction of rotation. Bow pressure can also be controlled independently for both strings. The time plot shown further below gives the details of the control possibilities. Rosin is continuously applied to the bow material through a rosin holder wherein the bottom wheel of the bow mechanism rotates. The frets are realized with strong electromagnets equipped with tangents. They are moveable, such that the instrument can be prepared to play in different tuning systems, including just intonation. The resonators for the strings are constructed from thin stainless steel pots, welded on a heart shaped sound board. The metallic and harsh sound the instrument produces when bowed was intended. Softer sounding, almost etheric string sound, including all flageolets, can also be produced using the e-drive mechanism. This machine is fully programmable and can work under midi control.
FULL SUSTAIN MODE – like no other sustainer; infinite sustain on every string, at every fret position and at any volume. You may have heard sustain before but not with this power (we call it “Vo Power”) and clarity.
Infinite sustain, dream of every self-respecting drone metalist.
The Janko keyboard is a musical keyboard layout for a piano designed by Paul von Janko in 1882.
Based on the premise that the hand can barely stretch more than a 9th on the piano, and that all scales are fingered differently, Janko’s new keyboard had two interlocking ‘manuals’ with three touch-points for each key lever. Instead of the traditional row of white and black keys, the keyboard has an array of keys.
Exotic Guitars
The instruments that you are seeing were constructed using classical instrument building techniques – and are elaborate sculptures – they are not merely airbrushed paintings on the same old guitars.
Intelligent MIDI Sequencing with Hamster Control
In culmination, 3 simultaneous voices were produced spanning 3 octaves and 3 rhythmic tiers. Each voice was controlled by two hamsters: one that was responsible for adjusting the rhythmic qualities of the melody and another that modified the note sequence. With all of these elements in combination, an output was produced with very musical qualities.
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