Re: Glockenspiel oboe

Hi Paul,

Just discovered that the bell partial analysis program at
http://www.oakcroft13.fsnet.co.uk/index.htm

is really easy to use and good at finding accurate partials.

Recommend it to anyone to have a go.

Here is a glockenspiel oboe:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robertwalker/fts/glock_oboe.mid

Isn't it lovely!

It's playing the Slendro Alit mode in the scale of a Gamelan from South Bali.

Here it is again.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robertwalker/fts/glock_oboe_with_ocarina_glock.mid
playing with an ocarina glockenspiel, a genuine glock on its own (low in pitch), and
a another "glockenspiel". This time, in pentatonic j.i, so more of the oboe world.

Can you tell which instrument is playing the second low "glockenspiel" I wonder?

The oboe glock didn't sound much like one (nor does the ocarina glock really,
but its nice), and I think anyone interested in the necker cube type illusion might
want to try an inharmonic instrument with a bit less attack to it (or a harmonic one
with more attack?).

Robert

Robert wrote,

>Here is a glockenspiel oboe:
>http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robertwalker/fts/glock_oboe.mid

>Isn't it lovely!

Yes, except it makes my soundcard crap out at many points in the piece --
with either annoying pitch glissandi or complete noise.

Anyway, what is a glockenspiel oboe? A bunch of glockenspiels playing in
parallel in a fixed oboertonal chord?

>It's playing the Slendro Alit mode in the scale of a Gamelan from South
Bali.

Are you sure? Sounds like a Pelog, not Slendro, mode.

--- In tuning@y..., "Robert Walker" <robert_walker@r...> wrote:

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>
> Here is a glockenspiel oboe:
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robertwalker/fts/glock_oboe.mid
>

Hi Robert...

Well, these effects are, of course, somewhat similar to various
"combine" functions in patch editors, where various waveforms and
partials from one sound are "morphed" gradually into another...

I suppose in this respect, it *IS* somewhat like an "Escher" or
"Necker" transformation....

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