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    Posted: June 11 2007 at 12:16
On "Torn by a Phrase" by A.C.T what instrument is being played after the 2nd chorus when all the instruments go quiet and you hear that light, fluttering like sound?
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Points: 4160 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2007 at 12:30
It could be many types of aerophones, but it sounds like a portative (or it's digital incarnation).
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Originally posted by clarke2001 clarke2001 wrote:

It could be many types of aerophones, but it sounds like a portative (or it's digital incarnation).
 
Thanks. Would a portative be the same as an electronic keyboard is to a piano?
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Points: 4160 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2007 at 14:26
Originally posted by prolificprogger prolificprogger wrote:

Originally posted by clarke2001 clarke2001 wrote:

It could be many types of aerophones, but it sounds like a portative (or it's digital incarnation).
 
Thanks. Would a portative be the same as an electronic keyboard is to a piano?


If I understand your relation properly - no.

Portative is similar to a church organ, just much smaller. It's also producing sound with the stream of air through the tube.

I made a hyperlink in a word "portative" in a previous post, in case you didn't notice it, you can click on a following link, it's quite good web site about portative organs:

http://home.arcor.de/vloite/

When I said or it's digital incarnation I simply meant that it could be sampled sound of old portative organ played through electronic keyboard - in a same way as a sound of a real piano or real acoustic guitar could be sampled on a keyboard - identical sound, but different instrument behaviour.

Of course, it doesn't have necessary to be portative, it could be some other musical instrument with somewhat similar sound, such is pan flute.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_flute
Percussion, sir!
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Points: 81 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2007 at 16:39
Originally posted by clarke2001 clarke2001 wrote:

Originally posted by prolificprogger prolificprogger wrote:

Originally posted by clarke2001 clarke2001 wrote:

It could be many types of aerophones, but it sounds like a portative (or it's digital incarnation).
 
Thanks. Would a portative be the same as an electronic keyboard is to a piano?


If I understand your relation properly - no.

Portative is similar to a church organ, just much smaller. It's also producing sound with the stream of air through the tube.

I made a hyperlink in a word "portative" in a previous post, in case you didn't notice it, you can click on a following link, it's quite good web site about portative organs:

http://home.arcor.de/vloite/

When I said or it's digital incarnation I simply meant that it could be sampled sound of old portative organ played through electronic keyboard - in a same way as a sound of a real piano or real acoustic guitar could be sampled on a keyboard - identical sound, but different instrument behaviour.

Of course, it doesn't have necessary to be portative, it could be some other musical instrument with somewhat similar sound, such is pan flute.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_flute

 
And the portative I would assume would have much more limited range in sound than the organ.


Edited by prolificprogger - June 11 2007 at 16:40
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