What instrument is being played in this song?
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Topic: What instrument is being played in this song?
Posted By: prolificprogger
Subject: What instrument is being played in this song?
Date 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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Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: June 11 2007 at 12:30
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It could be many types of aerophones, but it sounds like a http://home.arcor.de/vloite/ - portative (or it's digital incarnation).
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Posted By: prolificprogger
Date Posted: June 11 2007 at 13:00
Thanks. Would a portative be the same as an electronic keyboard is to a piano?
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clarke2001 wrote:Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: June 11 2007 at 14:26
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/ - 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 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_flute ------------- |
Posted By: prolificprogger
Date Posted: June 11 2007 at 16:39
And the portative I would assume would have much more limited range in sound than the organ.
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