Re: Dalai phon : Was: other recorder recommendations ?

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In a message dated 7/6/04 5:00:22 PM, nospam@akroeger.com writes:

<< care to tell us more about the instrument and the recording
Dalai Phon?  >>


Hi
If memory serves:
the instrument was just a thumb piano I made out of a tin can and 
hairpins. I 
think it was a small cylindrical can for Dorset Shortbread, maybe 6 inches 
tall.

I used a SignalFlex guitar tuner pickup to record a track onto my old 
Boomerang. I played very slowly at the high speed setting and bounced it 
to the PS02. 
Then I dropped the Boomerang down to lo-speed setting for a very low pitch 
and bounced that to the PS02.

I took the 2 tracks from the PS02 and put them on my computer. The lowered 
pitch track was kept whole. The normal track was then pitched upwards 
using 
software. Because I had played so slowly, the pitch could raise without 
the sound 
bunching up into chipmunkville.

Then I offset the tracks and faded one in while fading one out. 
What I like is that it is just one track but it sounds like different 
tracks.

It made me think of the very low tones mixed with the delicate high 
harmonics 
of Tibetan chanting, hence the title  - Dalai.

cheers
BobC


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