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This is very, very cool - one can only imagine Da Vinci's delight had he known this thing would actually be built and played all this time later! Sadly, the de
by Udo 13y ago
This is very, very cool - one can only imagine Da Vinci's delight had he known this thing would actually be built and played all this time later!
Sadly, the demo video is incredibly useless. Not only is it an obnoxiously cut-together collage of song fragments, it also never shows how the organ actually works. They do show off the room it's standing in, the pianist, and the audience in detail, but not the instrument nor do they do an acceptable job at providing a good listening experience. One can only assume this is by design, since the article is pretty vague on the inner workings of the organ as well.
Still, the project itself is very neat. I'm looking forward to hearing more from the viola organista.
- alternize 13y agothe keys when hit lower the strings on the constantly turning wheels. this video has some short footage on how the instrument works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS9c76V4RDE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS9c76V4RDE
- kzrdude 13y agoThere's an interview here which includes more detailed video of the instrument. Just be sure to toggle the subtitles. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOrn_z9m9lU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOrn_z9m9lU
- cge 13y agoIt's not just that particular demo video: almost everything I've seen shows extremely little of the instrument in detail, including all the videos and articles posted as replies here. Almost nothing gives any details on the action, how the action deals with so many differing string heights and wheel contact angles, how tuning is done when affected by both string tension and what appears to be string bending by the action, how voicing is done considering all of this and the wheels... there is no detail at all. This sadly seems like it might be intentional, too: in http://tygodnik.onet.pl/zmysly/the-da-vinci-tone-in-english/qw5s9 http://tygodnik.onet.pl/zmysly/the-da-vinci-tone-in-english/... (also posted elsewhere here), the maker skirts around encouragement to talk about details with the same generalities he uses in the videos, and then outright refuses to discuss details when asked directly beyond talking about the strings going out of tune and volume issues, both matters that are mostly obvious, uninteresting, and not unique to this instrument.