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Title: Viola Organista
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on November 18, 2013, 09:29:51 PM

So, Leonardo da Vinci designed a keyboard that bowed strings, but never built it; now, after 500 years, a guy has built it from Leo's plans and plays it (http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/listen-crazy-piano-invented-leonardo-da-vinci).  Enjoy!
 
Peter

Title: Viola Organista
Post by: sonicus on November 18, 2013, 09:55:01 PM

___ Das  ist  kool !!!!!!!
http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/leonardo-da-vincis-wacky-piano-is-heard-for-the-first-time-after-500-years-20131118-2xpqs.html (http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/leonardo-da-vincis-wacky-piano-is-heard-for-the-first-time-after-500-years-20131118-2xpqs.html)

Title: Viola Organista
Post by: keith_h on November 19, 2013, 07:29:12 AM

The sound reminds me a lot of the old melodeon organ I own. The attack is almost identical. The notes themselves are very close to the reeds in an old pump organ which are a bit fuller than the reeds in a melodeon.  
 
Keith

Title: Viola Organista
Post by: peoplechipper on November 19, 2013, 11:36:13 PM

WOW. that could be reinforcement to any string section...he needs to produce them NOW; any string quartet could add one and sound like eight!...Leonardo is my hero but he even now nudges the bar...wow..