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#musicalinstruments

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Jon Hancock

Now, I realise that the number of people as excited by this as I am is hovering around zero, but some crazy wonderful genius has made a set of presets available for the free Vital synthesizer program that mimic the sounds of a Lyricon-1 windsynth! Free to download and use, or make a donation to the creator.

If you don't know the Lyricon then look up "Einstein a Go-Go" on YouTube, or listen to Tom Scott playing it on Steely Dan's "Peg".

windsynth.booth.pm/items/72896

#WindSynth #Lyricon #Synth #MusicalInstruments

You can also read this article about the instrument from 1979: muzines.co.uk/articles/wind-of)

windsynth.booth.pmLyricon-1 Sampling WAV & VITAL Wavetables & Presets for Windsynth (Free) - Windsynth workbook shop - BOOTH初代Lyriconの音色を種々の設定でSamplingしたWAVファイルと、それを用いたVITALのwavetableとプリセットパッチのセットです。 現代のWind MIDI Controllerと無料のVITALで初代リリコンの音を再現できます。無料です。WAVファイルはVITAL以外のサンプラーシンセ等でも使用できます。 【背景】 Computone社の初代Lyricon(以下、Lyricon-1）は1974年から1978年まで約200台製造されたと言われる希少な楽器です。製造から半世紀が経ち、演奏可能な個体は数少ないと思われます。 2024年、オーナーであるMasaaki
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Nicole Sharp

Understanding Acoustic Dissonance

Dissonance — the discomfort we feel when two or more musical notes feel mismatched — is more than just a subjective measure. In this video, Henry of Minute Physics delves into some of the physics involved in dissonance, first with simple sine waves and then with musical instruments. Our ears — and our brains — seem most troubled when two notes (and their overtones) are close but not quite matching in frequency. And, as Henry explains, the peaks and valleys between those agreements lead to many of the musical systems we have today. (Video and image credit: Minute Physics)

#acoustics#fluidDynamics#music
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Jon Hancock

Remembering the correct baroque recorder fingerings and trying to sight read musical notation proved a bit much, so I've taken a pencil to the page and made things slightly easier for myself. Once I get these fingerings (and how they change across the octave) in my head I shall get back to learning to read music. There's only so far I can push my foggy brain before it topples over and goes to sleep facedown in the mud.

Black and white photograph of sheet music for the tune Portsmouth, from John Playford's 1701 collection The Dancing Master, with my Zoot electronic instrument lying across it. The names of the notes have been pencilled below the musical notation. The Zoot is a long, narrow rectangle, dark grey, with a squarish grey end cap from which a short tube emerges. Several small brass screws are visible in pairs along the body.
#MusicalInstruments#Zoot#Recorder
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Jon Hancock

In the unlikely event that you find yourself needing virtual instrument files of baroque and renaissance recorders, to use with software like Garageband, I finally found a library of free downloads. Follow the link, then click on the Community Edition:

versilian-studios.com/the-reco

There are WAV and .SFZ format files. Seems like every program out there has flutes, whistles, oboes and even Cor Anglais, but recorders are weirdly rare.

Versilian StudiosThe Recorder - Versilian StudiosThe definitive recorder sample library for Kontakt Player 7, featuring 27 top-of-the-range Baroque and Renaissance instruments from prestigious makers around the world.
#Music#Sampling#Recorder
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Art History Animalia

For #NationalPeacockDay 🦚:
Taus (mayuri), India, c.1885
wood, parchment, metal, feathers
on display at The Met
“The name of this bowed instrument means #peacock , the bird associated with Saraswati, the goddess of music. Popular at 19th century courts, it derives its form from the dilruba, an instrument combining features of other Indian stringed instruments like the sarangi and the sitar.”
#BirdsInArt #MusicalInstruments

photo of object in display case at museum: peacock-shaped musical instrument decorated with real peacock tail feathers, side profile view
different angle view (quarter turn side profile) to see more of instrument
closeup of the peacock-shaped body of instrument
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Stefan Bohacek

Some interesting new instruments presented by the finalists of the 2025 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition, including this one called Mulatar, which "combines elements of slide guitar, harp, and percussion into a single instrument.

Moving bridges allow musicians to adjust notes freely, while the harp section supports quick retuning, and the body functions as a drum."

youtube.com/watch?v=lvx2qxOPzH

Via synthtopia.com/content/2025/02

YouTubeMulatar Presentation for The Guthman CompetitionBy Rubi Mo
#music#MusicalInstruments#innovation
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