Search Results for: Harp

Persian Harp (Arjan)

This is a rare ancient Persian harp dates back to 3400 years ago.The instrument has a very deep oriental vibe/sound from middle east .

  • Kontakt

Gentle Harpsichord

Soft sounding harpsichord with two stops. Tuned with historical french tuning, A=440.

  • Kontakt

Harpsimachord

Harpsimachord is a Decent Sampler deep sampling of my 1970s two-manual, three-rank (8/8/4) Douglas Van Dyck Brown harpsichord. 

  • Decent Sampler

Deep Harp

A physically modeled concert harp (inspired) instrument

  • Decent Sampler

Deagan Vibraharp (Vibraphone)

A restored Deagan 555 Presto Vibraharp (Vibraphone) sampled with hard and soft mallets and processed through a variety of pedals.

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12 String Harp

A small celtic harp with 12 strings and no sharping levers...

  • Decent Sampler

Time Warp Mouth Harp

A pack of 3 instruments sampled from a mouth harp and exploring the dimensions of what it can do....

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Harpaphone

A tourist-shop souvenir harp resonating through a bouzouki top, resembling some kind of frankenstein kalimba/ukulele/balafon....

  • Kontakt

Glass Harp

Harp-like sounds created from a wine glass

  • Decent Sampler

Harpsichord

A harpsichord recorded with an old dented SM58.

  • Decent Sampler
  • Kontakt

Ocean Harp Swells

An Ocean Harp processed through various effects.

  • Kontakt

Hildur’s Harpsichord

A 1973 Harpsichord. Recorded with a dented SM57. Destructively resampled to sound nothing like a Harpsichord.

  • Decent Sampler
  • EXS24
  • Kontakt

Dusty Old Autoharp

Autoharp from the 1800's sampled in many varieties.

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Harp Harmonics

2 round robins and two dynamic layers of delicate harp harmonics.

  • Decent Sampler
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Closet Harp

An ethereal celtic harp that sounds wonderful with a large hall reverb.

  • Decent Sampler
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Fullbore Synth

mixable drawn soundwaves through a High Gain Distortion pedal

  • Decent Sampler

Lyre Lyre

An authentic Greek lyre harp sampled across three chromatic octaves for a natural and evocative tone. Perfect for scoring a mediterranean setting or expanding your timbral palette.

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Taishogoto

A Japanese string instrument.

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StyloPoly

A Dubreq Stylophone S-1 with some added features

  • Decent Sampler

Cymbalon

A sampled lap harp with 5 round robins and 4 velocity layers.

  • Decent Sampler

Wooden Church of St. Nepomucen

Package of instruments made only with sounds of the old historical wooden church, which interestingly served as a secret hideaway for thieves in his 500 years of history.

  • Decent Sampler
  • EXS24

Tremolo Guilele

This instrument was created by performing so called 'aleatoric' tremolo picking on a uke sized guitar. There's 2 round robins, great for a swarming (almost harp-like) sound.

  • Ableton sampler
  • EXS24

Deep Drum

A physical modeling based acoustic drum

  • Decent Sampler

Lite Hammered Dulcimer

I sampled my 17/16 hammered dulcimer which I built.

  • Decent Sampler
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Deep Orient

A hybrid ethnic guitar instrument

  • Decent Sampler

Daydream

Harp/Mallet kind of instrument with pads giving it ambient/ atmospheric dreamy calming vibes

  • Decent Sampler

1930s Wurlitzer Upright Plucks

An antique 1930s Wurlitzer upright piano with its action removed and its strings plucked.

  • Decent Sampler

Spinetta Italiana

Elgorni's portable keyboard randomly found on the internet and partially restored. Tuned with meantone temperament, A=415 Hz.

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Bulbul Tarang

An Indian keyed zither escapes the confines of its monophonic existence

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In The Weeds

Sounds of a restaurant

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Jungle Knife

Sampler instrument created from a jungle knife.

  • EXS24

MT-6B

A broken sound chip from 1984 was sent forward in time to destroy the future. Here, in our present. Tonight...

  • Decent Sampler

Hugh’s Bouzouki

An old bouzouki that a friend lent me to sample. I finally got around to it. Kontakt 5.8.1

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Spring Chimes

14 bells and mallets Pianobook sample packs united into one instrument...

  • Decent Sampler
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Hole Saw

A sharp tool with a delicate ringing sound......

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Bowl Lyre

A small bowl lyre-harp from Kenya

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Haunted Microwave

The sound of a genuine 1980's Sharp Carousel Microwave oven bell, manually timestretched to oblivion, and reduced to a haunting tone.

  • Decent Sampler

Bowzouki

An Irish Bouzouki bowed to imitate a Tagelharpa...

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Riedel Teresa

A small sample pack of a small harp just for experiencing the process of creating a sample pack. Enjoy on your own risk.

  • Decent Sampler

Gulbransen Picked Upright

Guitar Picked Upright Piano Sampled at 2 Velocities............

  • EXS24

Americana Tapestries

Inspired from Americana and Roots Music, this collection puts a cinematic spin on those traditional sound sources.

  • Kontakt

Taped Piano

Tape on piano strings!...

  • Decent Sampler
  • Kontakt

Plucked Glass

Piano harpy instrument created from plucking glass

  • Decent Sampler

Shaku Realm

Fun experiments with Kilohearts’ Phase Plant

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Otwin Campfire Guitar

A jazzy guitar ideal for playing round the campfire.

  • Decent Sampler
  • Kontakt

Micah’s Choir

A breathtaking choir recorded with reverence and heartache.

  • Decent Sampler
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Sounds from the Kitchen Vol. 2: Synth Chair

More wonderful sounds from the kitchen!

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Joshua’s Hybrids

Multis created from blends of Joshua Meltzer's many submissions!

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Annie’s Piano

A semi-grand harmonic piano. 1 dynamic layer, 2 round robins. Sustain pedal down.

  • Decent Sampler
  • Kontakt

Mandolin Guitarophone (Marxophone)

A Marxophone sampled in a variety of styles, and "Swarm"-style pads.

  • Kontakt
  • SFZ

David’s CP70

A Yamaha CP70 recorded with 2 round robins and anywhere from 4-7 velocity layers.

  • Kontakt

RMI Electra-Piano

An RMI Electra-Piano recored DI through a Universal Audio LA-610 MkII preamp with some slight NR.

  • Decent Sampler
  • Kontakt

James’ Ukulele

A Brunswick ukulele sampled using an SM58 with a Mackie Onyx Artist 1.2

  • Decent Sampler
  • EXS24

Baritone Guitar

A Danelectro baritone guitar recorded in three different varieties.

  • Decent Sampler
  • Kontakt

Weber Upright with Wooden Mallets

A 1960s Weber upright played with a wooden mallet, recorded with a stereo pair of the Slate VMS2 modeling mics and a large diaphragm VMS1.

  • Decent Sampler
  • Kontakt

The Glass

An elegant harp-like instrument made from an elegant crystal glass.

  • Decent Sampler
  • EXS24

Competition Time! The World’s Biggest BRAAAM

It’s November 2022 and as we head into Christmas (yes, it’s coming) we want to throw another sample challenge competition. The third edition of this challenge (after Winter Voices & Global Swarm) will involve creating a BRAAAM… so when we combine all of your samples together we should be able to create The World’s Biggest […]

Project Reflex With Dan Keen

For our monthly Discord Challenge, we’re teaming up with Dan Keen to assist with his latest sample project- Project Reflex. Join our Discord to take part: https://discord.com/invite/mAGYfHUUBF Here’s everything you need to know: There will be two instruments created: Pitched and Percussive. If you don’t have an instrument or voice to record, feel free to […]

Christmas Treats 2021

Three more treats for Christmas

Pianobook – THE HONOURS LIST

Featured in the 2019 honours list: Andrew Ward: 1911 Bechstein Upright (most download piano in 2019) Angus Roberts-Carey: Sonva Piano, Sonva Upright, Infinite Guitar (plus Kontakt versions of 9000ft Piano and Tracked Piano) Christopher Scullion: Tatak – Toy Piano, Tatak – Felt Piano (MVP and Full), Tatak – Muted Felt Piano Conner Sawchuk: Decrepit Toy […]

September Highlights

CELEBRATING ONE YEAR OF PIANOBOOK In September 2018, Pianobook was officially launched with a Prologue video from Christian. One year later and we now have a website with a massive sample library of community contributed pianos and other instruments. Upright pianos, grand pianos, felted and prepared pianos plus a range of other interesting pads and […]

August Highlights

  MAKING MUSIC FROM POOH? Whether the term “Pooh Breakfast” has anything to do with the sound of 29 Bagpipes tuning up is up to you! Christian teases the upcoming Pianbook competition and walks through another set of submissions to Pianobook.     PROGRAMMING ROUND ROBINS WITH A KALIMBA Christian discovers the simplicity of programming […]

Sea Burial

Thanks to these brutally romantic images from Andrew Ward, who had this to say about them: “I took the photos on 19th August 2014 at the beach in Aldeburgh, Suffolk – I’d dragged the family on a pilgrimage to Orford Ness to explore Thomas Dolby’s “Invisible Lighthouse” (https://vimeo.com/92960064) and we happened upon this scene on […]

Recording Your Piano

To record your piano you will need a pair of microphones (to capture a stereo image), an audio interface plus DAW or an audio recorder, and a DAW to cut up your samples. Most recordings of pianos make use of one or more stereo pairs of condenser microphones – anything from a pair of large […]

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