Piano Gtr Harmonics Lovechild
A hybrid instrument created from a Wurlitzer Baby Grand and a 1960 Gibson Melody Maker playing harmonics.
ByJoshua Meltzer
The story
I blended my 1930 Wurlitzer Baby Grand and my 1960 Gibson Melody Maker playing harmonics. I kept it pretty simple as an instrument but when adding some “splosh”
(Proper spelling?:) and especially some delay, it really comes to life. I also included some pads. I reversed and stretched the gtr harmonics and also recorded some pedal down resonance from inside the piano. The “Hybrid Ambient Harmonics Ensemble” is a multi featuring all of it!
Reviews
A little tweak needed for use, but the sound is excellent
Very very interesting!!! It has such a nicely long release, I need to think how to mix it with others so it would have been better if it was controllable but it is definitely inspiring and beautiful.
For me this is the point of sampling....
...to create "instruments" that couldn't otherwise exist. Sometimes a Wurlitzer is just too cliche and a guitar is just too, well, guitary? For those time you have this. Beautiful plucky/ringy sound with lovely overtones. The multi is my favourite with the reverses adding almost random reverse reflections and the atmosphere adding, well, atmosphere. Hard to describe this, as you may have guessed, just download it...
Great and inspiring sound!
What a great sound this is! It's very playable, and works in so many contexts musically. I was left wishing for a way to easily control the drenching reverb, which is nice, but not useful in every context. It was easy enough to remove it by digging in, but it would have been more useful to have had a control for it on the GUI. Likewise, ADSR envelope controls would have also been useful. Again, something interested users can add without much trouble. Overall, this is a really great and inspiring library and a worthy download!