Topic: The vibrating glass thread makes me want a modelled glass harp
I must admit that the first time I glanced at the title of the thread about Pianoteq making glasses respond, I thought it was about modelling a glass harp. I now understand the worries about having glasses respond to freqs in Pianoteq. But now I also want a modelled glass harp.
I'm not sure how hard this would be. I would expect that glasses would have lower inharmonicity than a piano string--isn't the appeal of a glass harp partly the purity of tone? (But also the reason that we may not want to listen to a glass harp for more than a few minutes.) There would be no soundboard.The glasses are the transducers, yes? Velocity of strikes would still control amplitude, but would it also affect pitch slightly? Does the player subtly alter the pitch with slight variations in speed to prevent the drone of sine waves? And attack velocity would of course control the attack, or would be the gliding attack.
Pitch would also be controlled by the amount of water in each glass and\or the size and material or thickness of the glass? The interface would allow us to see the glasses and the water in them as we adjusted each? Or to choose different glasses that might accent different partials?
Or there's the spinning version that makes glass wheels turn, per this article:
https://www.roh.org.uk/news/the-glass-h...instrument
But it drove people mad, and we might not want that.
Just a pipe dream, I suppose, or a glassy daydream.
