ancient European instruments (500 to year 1000)
Hello, i have a idea for a soundfount (used in MIDI instruments) that
has ancient instruments (500 to year 900).
At present time i have wav files of:
Cow horn bugle (prillarhorn)
Sheep bone flute
Missing:
Sami drum (frame Drum)
bukkehorn (ram/goat's horn)
Lur (Brass)
birch trumpet(neverlur)
Jorvik Pan flute
willow flute/sallow flute
Spilåpipa
näverlapp ("birch bark patch")
Falster Pipe
Norwegian lyre
Brass/iron ring rattle ( these whas mounted on a staff )
Juhikko/tagglharpe
Brummer/"Bull roarer" (yes, they did have these here too)
The Soundfount is to be released under General Public License when
completed.
PS:
Some of the instruments can be heard on youtube, this is a
Juhikko/tagglharpe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsMafwIKFMo
I have tried to contact the person playing on the clip.
It is tuned : G C g C
The range is from G 1 1/2 octave to D or fiss.
The problem is that some of these blown instruments has some unike harmonics :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh1dYVloUqc&list=UUzvC3UCTafDUNEpguFL3gP… ( Can be heard around 1:05 in that clip ).
A interesting clip, but i doubt that they used circular breathing here..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4t8ap5KXqQ
Comments
It's up to you but it's probably not a good idea to release the soundfont under GPL... It would make every work made with it GPL... See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL_font_exception for a discussion about fonts (not soundfont). If you want to make your font as usable as possible and you own the rights on the sample, use CC0.
In reply to It's up to you but it's by [DELETED] 5
I want it linux style, no one own it, but anyone can improve the soundfount and add instruments under the cirkumstances that they share the improvements with the rest of the world and that they are from the correct time period and is from North Europa ( Sweden,Denmark,Norway,Finland,Shetland Islands, Orkney Islands,Iceland,England,Isle of Man, and the regions around the Baltic Sea).
I want it to sound as natural as possible.
In reply to Style of licence: by Haaken
In that case you definitely need to use one of the Creative Commons Licences which allows others to use your work.
More details here: http://creativecommons.org/
I'll let you have upload details when I get home. Unfortunately I do not have them on my tablet.
In reply to In that case you definitely by ChurchOrganist
I will use that one.
In reply to I will use that one. by Haaken
I'm back home now, Haaken so if you let me have your email address through my account here, I'll send you the filebox login details
List of samples at the present:
Cow horn bugle (prillarhorn)
Sheep bone flute
Lur (Brass) (the Revheim lur with entire tonal range)
Norwegian Lyre
Missing:
Sami drum (frame Drum)
bukkehorn (ram/goat's horn)
birch trumpet(neverlur)
Jorvik Pan flute
willow flute/sallow flute
Spilåpipa
näverlapp ("birch bark patch")
Falster Pipe
Brass/iron ring rattle ( these whas mounted on a staff )
Juhikko/tagglharpe
Brummer/"Bull roarer" (yes, they did have these here too)
In reply to Update: by Haaken
Cow horn bugle (prillarhorn)
Sheep bone flute
Lur (Brass) (the Revheim lur with entire tonal range)
Norwegian Lyre(viking lure)
In reply to Files uploaded by Haaken
OK these are now accessible at:
http://www.filefactory.com/f/c3aeb0890496f0a8
Please note they are in FLAC format so if you want to use them in Viena you will need to convert them to WAV in Audacity or other sample editor.
Thank you for your input Haaken. These will be of great interest to anyone working in Norse or Viking traditional music
In reply to OK these are now accessible by ChurchOrganist
Or at least anyone trying to recreate it.
I know that there is some note sheats on Iceland, there is a CD called Havamal.
In reply to Update: by Haaken
Sorry to reply so many years after; I would be very interested in such a SoundFont, too. I'm a composer and ethnomusicologist with a strong interest in Norwegian traditions.
If you can and like to do it, you could contact me on giovanni.grosskopf@consmilano.it
Hello Haaken,
I discovered this thread by chance. Congratulations on setting up such a great and useful project. Is there any page yet where one can access the soundfont in it´s latest form? I am currently researching into norse music for a film project and it seems that your soundfont is the most specific I ever encountered in this context. I would welcome any information you could give me on how to get the sounds. Would you like to have some demos produced as a way of repaying you for your effort?
Best wishes,
Michael
michael@klubertanz.de
www.mkscoring.de
In reply to ancient instruments by klubertanz
The samples have not yet been made into a soundfont, but if you need the samples I have them backed up on my hard drive.
Message me if that would help.
In reply to The samples have not yet been by ChurchOrganist
Hello,
trying again to reach you. If you could help with the samples It´d be greatly aprreciated. You can most easily reach me via michael@klubertanz.de
Best,
Michael
In reply to The samples have not yet been by ChurchOrganist
Sorry to reply so many years after; I would be very interested in such a SoundFont, too. I'm a composer and ethnomusicologist with a strong interest in Norwegian traditions.
If you can and like to do it, you could contact me on giovanni.grosskopf@consmilano.it