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  • Tom Toms

    M
    M
    Herb

    Will the Pro Edition include Tom Toms?

    Regards

    Mirabile
  • H
    H
    Sorry, no Tom Toms at the moment.
    We want to make orchestral Tom Toms - but hard to find good instruments here, but we don't give up.

    Here is an actual Percussion list for the Pro edition:
    (I don't know for some instruments the english term, I wrote them in italic style, maybe my wife Sabine will ad this names later)

    Anklung
    Anvils
    Boa Bams
    Burma Bells
    Castagnettes
    Caxixi
    Celesta
    Chinese Gongs
    Claves
    Flexaton
    Chimes (glass, bambus, metall)
    Glockenspiel (a smaller one - "Table" Glockenspiel"
    Guica
    Guiro
    Jingle Bells
    Lion Roar
    Logdrum
    Marimbaphone
    Oceandrum
    Peking Opera gongs
    Ratschen
    Rockbells (a kind of untuned cencerros)
    Rühr Xylophone
    Rainmaker
    Schellenkranz
    Schwirrholz
    Shaker
    Sirenes
    Snare drum ensemble (4 player + performance repetitions)
    Tamtams (a second set)
    Tempelblocks
    Vibraphone
    Vibratone
    Waldteufel
    Windmachine
    Waterphone

    extensions for First Edition Percussions:

    more mallet variations for:
    Cencerros (Almglocken)
    Glockenspiel
    Gongs
    Tubular Bells
    Woodblocks
    Xylphone

    Performance Repetitions for:
    Timpani, bass drum, all snare drums
  • P
    P
    celesta!

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  • K
    K
    hey herb,

    any picutres of the lion doing the lion roars?! ;P

    hehee

    seriously tho, what the heck is that?
  • H
    H
    Guica, Waldteufel (it's a name of a bird), and lion roar belong to the same instrument family:
    a construction where a skin is "rubbed" with a piece of cord.
    The lion roar is the bass instrument.

    Later on there will be exact descriptions in our "Instruments Online"


    In the meantime you can hear a short example:

    http://www.vsl.co.at/upload/forum/Lion-roar_3.mp3
  • M
    M
    Herb, one word: wonderful!!! [:D]

    Martin
  • G
    G
    I was a classical percusionist, and I never heard such a thing !


    Crazy library...



    Regards

    The French dyslexic who speaks badly English.
  • P
    P
    Fantastic!

    I can't wait to hear the Cuica (how many different versions of the spelling are there? I've seen a few) - I'm guessing that this is the same instrument that makes an 'ooh-eeh-ooh' noise? I think there's one at the end of Williams' 'Phantom Menace' score (in the parade).

    I'm packing away my sticks as we speak...

    [:)]

    peter
  • S
    S
    Lion Roar - Listen to Edgar Varese - he uses it, eg. 'Ameriques'
    which by the way is one of my favorite pieces. [:D]
  • G
    G
    I was just thinking « What composer could use that ‘Lion rooooaaar’ »

    Thanks for the answer before I post...

    Verese, of course.

    What Verese didn’t use, anyway ?

    (except, ‘spoon on dishes’ maybe...)

    I see in the list : ‘Sirenes’... I supose Varese has been playing in Vienna... It will be easy to do a Varese transcription whit VSL...


    (No spoon on dishes in the vienna percussion stock, herb ?)


    The French dyslexic who speaks badly English.
  • DietzD
    VSL Team
    DietzD
    Sidenote to Herb (and everybody else, of course): The ominous "Schellenkranz" is a more or less trivial Tambourine, AFAIK :-]

    /Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library
    /Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library
  • S
    S
    "Sidenote to Herb (and everybody else, of course): The ominous "Schellenkranz" is a more or less trivial Tambourine, AFAIK :-"

    You're very close, dietz [:D]
    In fact it's a tambourine without skin (we'll use the term "tambourine jingle" in Instruments Online).

    sabine
  • M
    M
    [[[:D]]] [[[:D]]] [[[:D]]]

    Really looking forward to playing around with all the percussion in the pro edition!!! Beautiful to have the possibility to choose from so many instruments!!! Great...

    Matt