{"id":620,"date":"2013-11-20T13:10:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T13:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soniccouture.com\/blog\/?p=620"},"modified":"2015-09-16T21:13:21","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T20:13:21","slug":"da-vinci-viola-organista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soniccouture.com\/blog\/da-vinci-viola-organista\/","title":{"rendered":"In Da Vinci&#8217;s Sonic Footsteps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Viola organista made by S\u0142awomir Zubrzycki\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sv3py3Ap8_Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>LEO Systems Easi-Bow 2000<\/h2>\n<p>Several people posted it on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/soniccouture\">FB page<\/a>\u00a0and tweeted us about it in the space of a few hours, and it is clearly an appealing concept : an instrument that bows a string in a very controlled, predictable way, just by pressing a key &#8211; rather than the daunting chaos of the violin or the cello. I bet painters wish he&#8217;d invented an <em>enigmatic-smile-a-tron<\/em> as well.<\/p>\n<p>What people may not know is that there are other versions of this idea around; a recent example that leaps to mind is the <em>Wheelharp<\/em> by Antiquity Music :<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wheelharp\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/57561949?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Probably the closest DNA match would be the Hurdy Gurdy, the difference being that all the strings on a Hurdy are always in constant contact with the turning wheel.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_634\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.soniccouture.com\/en\/products\/28-rare-and-experimental\/g30-the-conservatoire-collection\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-634\" class=\"size-full wp-image-634 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.soniccouture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/img-20110810102036.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hurdy Gurdy from the Conservatoire Collection<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>If Da Vinci had <em>Kontakt..<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>And, as Dan pointed out to me, our own <em>Bowed Piano<\/em> \u00a0(included in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soniccouture.com\/en\/products\/28-rare-and-experimental\/g24-xtended-piano\/\">Xtended Piano <\/a>collection) is a direct virtual equivalent. Using the sustain bow articulation you get the same kind of bowed sound, controllable by a MIDI keyboard. The bowed piano sound is looped in Kontakt, so it directly mirrors the effect of the wheel turning in the <em>Organista.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/soniccouture\/steve-reich<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/soniccouture\/memorial-bowed-mute-mallet<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The music-tech internets lit up this week with news of Slawomir Zubrzycki\u2019s construction of one of Leonardo Da Vinci&#8217;s imagined inventions : the Viola Organista :<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soniccouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soniccouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soniccouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soniccouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soniccouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.soniccouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1760,"href":"https:\/\/www.soniccouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/1760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soniccouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soniccouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soniccouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soniccouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}