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On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:41:41 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> My copy of Kontact comes with three organ sounds. These are labelled as
> "Voix Humaine 8'", "Pos-Scharff", and my personal favourit, "Fonds +
> Quint". Does any of that mean *anything* to anybody here?
I *think* those descriptions are Gaelic; I can't find my dictionary,
though, to check. I know someone who speaks a dialect of Gaelic, though,
so he might be able to help translate.
Jim
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On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:41:41 +0100, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] dev null>
wrote:
>Similarly,
>"flageolet".
Posh name for tin whistle :) Flage-o-let
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Regards
Stephen
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On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:41:41 +0200, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> My copy of Kontact comes with three organ sounds. These are labelled as
> "Voix Humaine 8'", "Pos-Scharff", and my personal favourit, "Fonds +
> Quint". Does any of that mean *anything* to anybody here?
They appear to be organ stops. Presumably, the samples are from the "Notre
Dame de Budapest" sampling library.
--
FE
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> "Voix Humaine 8'",
8 foot long "voice of humans" pipes.
> It's actually hard to play in time due to the lag between hitting a
> key and the note sounding at full volume...
This is actually pretty normal with pipe organs.
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
"That's pretty. Where's that?"
"It's the Age of Channelwood."
"We should go there on vacation some time."
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>> On a completely unrelated note... [see what I did there?] does anybody
>> know what "sforzando" means?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamics_(music)#Sudden_changes
Hmm. OK. So it's a sudden yet unspecified sound emphasis?
>> (Or how you pronouce it!)
>
> http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=sforzando
Ouch! :-S
>> Similarly, "flageolet".
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flageolet
Hmm. Interesting. There are two versions of the Harp instrument, marked
"normal" and "flageolet". So I'm guessing there is another sense to the
word...
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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>> My copy of Kontact comes with three organ sounds. These are labelled
>> as "Voix Humaine 8'", "Pos-Scharff", and my personal favourit, "Fonds
>> + Quint". Does any of that mean *anything* to anybody here?
>
> They appear to be organ stops.
I would guess so. I don't know much about this sort of thing...
> Presumably, the samples are from the
> "Notre Dame de Budapest" sampling library.
Well, Kontact *is* a sample library. (And one costing a vast amount of
money.) Of course, it's possible that not *all* of the samples it
contains were produced specially though... although certainly the
orchestral ones appear to be.
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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>> "Voix Humaine 8'",
>
> 8 foot long "voice of humans" pipes.
I figured it might be something like that.
>> It's actually hard to play in time due to the lag between hitting a
>> key and the note sounding at full volume...
>
> This is actually pretty normal with pipe organs.
I've never had the opportunity to play one - as you can probably imagine...
[I do have something of a fascination with them though. Still, it's not
something you can learn easily. They are rare instruments. And they're
LOUD!]
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:49:35 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> On a completely unrelated note... [see what I did there?] does anybody
>>> know what "sforzando" means?
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamics_(music)#Sudden_changes
>
> Hmm. OK. So it's a sudden yet unspecified sound emphasis?
Not really unspecified; it's accented to an extent.
>>> (Or how you pronouce it!)
>>
>> http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=sforzando
>
> Ouch! :-S
"sfort-san-do". It's Italian.
Jim
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On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:49:35 +0200, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> Similarly, "flageolet".
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flageolet
>
> Hmm. Interesting. There are two versions of the Harp instrument, marked
> "normal" and "flageolet". So I'm guessing there is another sense to the
> word...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flageolet_(disambiguation)
Still not learning?
--
FE
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On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:51:05 +0200, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Presumably, the samples are from the "Notre Dame de Budapest" sampling
>> library.
>
> Well, Kontact *is* a sample library. (And one costing a vast amount of
> money.) Of course, it's possible that not *all* of the samples it
> contains were produced specially though... although certainly the
> orchestral ones appear to be.
http://www.orgona.org
--
FE
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