The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #118457   Message #2561215
Posted By: Richard Mellish
08-Feb-09 - 06:17 PM
Thread Name: MIDI Instrument Voices: A Brave New World!
Subject: RE: A Brave New World!
Dick said
> perhaps one of these little beauties will tempt you to swop your Dipper! <

The description of the Wakker concertinas from one of the above links says "The instruments can generate data over two channels (layers) simultaneously. This means you can combine two different sounds at the same time."

I take that to mean a maximum of only two notes at once. Is that right? The YouTube demos of the Anglo are consistent with that: more-or-less Irish style, mostly one note at a time, with an occasional bass. That's not my style. I don't do a Peter Bellamy or Robin Madge with fistfuls of notes, but I do play chords a lot of the time.

> Is this supposed to be a Violin, Viola, a Cello or a Double Bass?

The samples may be from one or other of those but the articulation remains that of a concertina -- quite different from a bowed string.

Richard