Re: Acoustic Piano Looping

[James Richmond <yahoogroups@jamesrichmond.com>]

Hi Daryl, 

Thanks- glad you like them,

As I said I don't really play piano (I'm a guitarist) and I inherited one of the pianos, the other I won on ebay after putting a $10 bid in for a friend showing them how to use ebay. No one else put a bid in so I ended up winning it- was quite accidental.

I retuned it for want of something else to do with it.

I split the keyboard in two- tuned 24 divisions to the octave on the top stings and 18 on the low strings.

I did it myself, so it isn't precise- I was just dicking around really.

When I have a moment I will try to find some audio files of the pre processed playing- it won't be very flash, which is probably why I process it so heavily. Defining myself by my limitations, I guess.

I'd like to see someone who can really play have a go at my piano- it could we wonderful, or perhaps not.

Anyway, back to Halo 3. :-)

Jim

On Sep 27, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Daryl Shawn wrote:

Hmmm...micro-tuned acoustic piano...run through poorly-tracked harmonisers...traditionalists are probably just a small subset of the huge group that would get pissed off at that sound!

But for my taste, very cool tracks...it is pretty hard to pick out the piano here. I'm curious about the micro-tuned sounds you're describing.

Daryl Shawn

www.swanwelder.com

www.chinapaintingmusic.com

One is a regularly tuned piano, the other is a 'prepared piano' that I've tuned microtonally (which pissed my wife of initially, she's a traditionalist).