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The authenticity of the instruments and performances will instantly place the listener in that world. This library would be ideal for songwriters, producers or media composers looking to add a flavor of the Orient to a musical project. Wet And Dry Versions For Ease Of Use And Flexibility The processing applied to the wet sounds includes a combination of reverb and delay making the sounds ready to go and easy to drop into your mix. The samples are presented both dry and, for the instrument loops and singleshots, wet versions. Original recording tempos range from 60 to 86 bpm. Also included are percussion singleshots and a number of environmental ambience sounds from Chinese street life.Ĭhinese Instruments is built on nearly 3 GB of sample data and features over 700 loops and samples. The collection is dominated by instrument and percussion loops that were recorded in Shanghai and features Guzheng, Pipa, Bamboo Flute, Erhus, Temple Blocks, Ju, Sticks, Kuai Ban Er and various traditional cymbals and gongs. If you play or would like to play Irish music, you might be interested in some Tips for Learning Irish Traditional Music.Chinese Instruments brings you a collection of individual instrument performances that capture some of the beautiful and exotic sounds of oriental China. This is particularly important for the mission of, since if you want to learn a tune from that source, you need to either use the same instrument or edit your copy of the recording to bring it up or down to match the tuning of your instrument. For example, an "Eb whistle" is tuned a half-step sharp, which means if you hear a tune played in G# Major, it's actually being played in G Major, just tuned a half-step sharp. These are commonly used descriptions within the Irish traditional music community that indicate how many half-steps above or below standard tuning the instrument is tuned to. Sometimes you will see a pitch specified for an instrument, such as "C# pipes," "Bb flute," etc. Also spelled "bodhran." The preferred English-language pronunciation is "bo-RAWN." The Wikipedia Bodhrán article is a useful introduction.Īgain the Wikipedia Irish bouzouki article is a useful introduction. In Irish music this almost exclusively means the four-string tenor banjo played with a single pick. I do use the specific term "piano accordion" in the few cases where that instrument is used. This term, also spelled "accordeon," and synonomous with "box," covers all button accordions, regardless of tuning patterns or number of rows, except for single-row button accordions, which are traditionally called a "melodeon" in Irish music. There is no difference between fiddle and violin other than what music you play on it. I do not differentiate here between wooden flutes and silver flutes. Visit Chiff and Fipple for more information. Tin whistle (known as "penny whistle" in English music). Pronounced "ILL-in." Also spelled "uillean pipes." Visit Na Píobairí Uilleann for more information. For more about traditional Irish instruments, I recommend consulting the The Companion to Irish Traditional Music (see the Bibliography). The following uniform terms are used throughout to describe the following instruments used in Irish traditional music.
Frequently Asked Question: What Are the Instruments Named Here?