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soundfont

HI !
I am Tom
and I'm looking for any one to exchange soundfont files or
maybe some info on home made musik.
Well...just send your e-mail at:
gothness@usa.net

Re: soundfont

Reply #1 –
Hi Tom, I have a soundfont CD, the one that Creative Labs
sell. Should you be interested, please reply. Also, it
would be very interesting to talk with another NWC user!
Hey, I also need to get some info on how to use these babies
to get more (and better) sounds. Could you help?

Re: soundfont

Reply #2 –
I have close to 300 sf2 soundfonts collected from the far reaches of the internet. I would be willing to trade. If you have even a few that I like you can have 10 for every one of yours. I just don't want to try and e-mail everything I have cause it would take too long. I particularly like big sf files with very natural acoustic instruments, world or orchestral, stereo and sampled at several velocities. Also exotic sound efx, bells chimes, etc. My holiest quest involves the elusive glass harp an instrument built by Benjamin Franklin. It's tonality is approximated by running a wet finger around a wine glass.

Re: soundfont

Reply #3 –
About glass harp: it seems to me that it is an old austrian/bohemian (referring to boheme, south germany) instrument, much time before B.Franklin came to it. I'll try toverify its history tonite. But I'm sure Richard or Andrew may help us about this :-)

MAD

Re: soundfont

Reply #4 –
You were both right. Here's some info on the "Glass Armonica" (later "Harmonica"), which is the instrument Franklin invented (or rather, perfected), and for which Mozart wrote his famous quintet:

http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/7597/history.htm

The glass harp is a two-dimensional variation on the same idea... making it easier to play chords. The same site has an html page on this instrument at:

http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/7597/glasshrp.htm