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  • hey herb,

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

    hehee

    seriously tho, what the heck is that?

  • 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

  • Herb, one word: wonderful!!! [:D]

    Martin

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


    Crazy library...



    Regards

    The French dyslexic who speaks badly English.

  • 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

  • Lion Roar - Listen to Edgar Varese - he uses it, eg. 'Ameriques'
    which by the way is one of my favorite pieces. [:D]

  • 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.

  • 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
  • "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

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    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