- Pianoteqenthusiast
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Re: Qanounteq ?
Thank you, Gaston!
C’est magnifique! Très intéressant!
Magnifique instrument.
The sound made me think of a finnish instrument - Kantele (like a finnish ziter).
The Baltic Finnish tradition tells us that it was the magician Väinämöinen from the Kalevala who designed the first kantele with the jawbone from a giant pike and horsehair from a troll horse. The generated music that attracted all the creatures of the forest enchanted by its good sound
Best,
Stig
Edit: I have to try if I can get a similar sound modifying Neupert or Blanchet
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- Key Fumbler
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Cold shivers at the thought of QAnon-teq. Thankfully I misread that!
Could be a nice addition to Pianoteq.
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Lovely, lively sound. I have not seen an instrument with so many openings in the soundboard—and around the edges instead of near the center. Some Tacoma guitars have a sound-hole that is at one edge of the top, preventing buckling. But here, on this instrument, is the soundboard under tension at all? No crown or arch? Seems loud, if there is not something putting tension on the soundboard.
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- Andreya
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I'd loooove this. The microtonal capabilities of PianoTeq, especially combined with the MTS-ESP tuning system, could really do this instrument justice, more so than any other plugins I'm aware of.
For those unaware the Qanun is central to establishing the tuning in many arabic (and also turkish) ensembles. It's oftentimes the only fixed-pitch instrument in the ensemble, the others being fretless string instruments or winds/voices, making it naturally the one that all the others adjust to (Al-Qanun means the law, in arabic) Al-Farabi developed a tuning for it in the 800s BC, which has been modified and adjusted in many ways since. Regardless of which specific tuning system is used, the instrument is always diatonic, with individual strings having their pitch adjusted by the little levers on the left side. Without that retuning functionality, a Qanun virtual instrument would be... incomplete, to put it lightly.
That's where I feel like Pianoteq could really shine. MTS-ESP would allow us to retune the software instruments while playing, like the real deal. The physical modelling could even possibly include the sound of the metal bridges touching or releasing the strings as the tuning changes, a central part of the instruments sound and often used for ornamentations and such. How cool would that be?!
So yeah, that's a resounding +1 for this suggestion for me. <3
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Jake Johnson wrote:
Lovely, lively sound. I have not seen an instrument with so many openings in the soundboard—and around the edges instead of near the center. Some Tacoma guitars have a sound-hole that is at one edge of the top, preventing buckling. But here, on this instrument, is the soundboard under tension at all? No crown or arch? Seems loud, if there something is not putting tension on the soundboard.
I don't think they serve any purpose and are purely decorative like we see in harpsichords, virginals, and clavichords.
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That is a really interesting instrument, which I assume takes a lot of hard work and practice to learn to play well.