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LAUNEDDAS

Posted: 30 Aug 2024, 23:34
by zetarec
Hi, have a sample Launeddas instrument for ns4? thanks

Re: LAUNEDDAS

Posted: 08 Nov 2024, 12:29
by timmmy000
Hi, no originally ther aren't such samples existent. But perhaps you can tweak some similar sounding samples - the Launeddas is a flute-like mediterranean instrument, isn´t it? So in the sample library the English Horn Mellotron M400 and the Flute Chamberlin MMaster (both in the Mellotron/Chamberlin-category) may be a good starting point...
Regards
Tim

Re: LAUNEDDAS

Posted: 08 Nov 2024, 18:16
by DadeBonetti
timmmy000 wrote: 08 Nov 2024, 12:29 Hi, no originally ther aren't such samples existent. But perhaps you can tweak some similar sounding samples - the Launeddas is a flute-like mediterranean instrument, isn´t it? So in the sample library the English Horn Mellotron M400 and the Flute Chamberlin MMaster (both in the Mellotron/Chamberlin-category) may be a good starting point...
Regards
Tim
not really a flute-like sound

Re: LAUNEDDAS

Posted: 10 Nov 2024, 15:30
by timmmy000
I've visited a friend in Piombino (near Elba) but I'm not familiar with the instrument...@DadeBonetti can you tell us more about the instrument?

Regards
Tim

Re: LAUNEDDAS

Posted: 11 Nov 2024, 12:21
by timmmy000
a quick Wiki-research and you get more informations: It#s an instrument which you can call a woodwind - but not like a flute, more like a single-reed-instrument... :-) I don't know any brand of keyboards which has a launeddas-sound (perhaps an oriental-version of a korg-PA-keyboard..).

Re: LAUNEDDAS

Posted: 11 Nov 2024, 20:47
by Mr_-G-
In the video I saw in YT it was played polyphonically (three flutes, sounding somehow reminiscent of a bagpipe, with one of them being a drone). Very different sound and the player was incredible.

Re: LAUNEDDAS

Posted: 12 Nov 2024, 10:57
by Spider
yes it's a very ancient Mediterranean reed instrument, one of the "flutes" is a drone playing a fixed note (that's why there are several "models" with different tuning), the left hand plays accompaniment and the right plays the melody.
Even if it looks like a flute, it's more akin to a "bagpipe without the bag". Even more because it's played by circular breathing without interruptions in sound, thus producing a continuous organ-like tone like the bagpipe, rather than a typical "wind instrument" sound with pauses and interruptions for breathing.


Re: LAUNEDDAS

Posted: 12 Nov 2024, 15:44
by DadeBonetti
timmmy000 wrote: 10 Nov 2024, 15:30 I've visited a friend in Piombino (near Elba) but I'm not familiar with the instrument...@DadeBonetti can you tell us more about the instrument?

Regards
Tim
I'm not an expert, it's a traditional instrument from Sardinia, more reed than flute