Sorry if this isnt a place to ask this. Couldn't find /r/whatisthisinstrument unfortunately lol.
https://youtu.be/DQBs5TZaCjQ
Theres a violin doing the main melody, and some kind of plucked string instrument providing the harmonic foundation of the piece. I can't really tell what it is. Is it a harp? Or a dulcimer or zither of some kind? Hard for me to tell. Whatever it is, I think I've also heard It in the skyrim score. Thanks for any help with this.
Especially at the start of Barok's leitmotif? It is harpsichord. That and pipe organs are the most common keyboard instruments until the introduction of pianos.
In summary: harpsichords are similar to pianos, except instead of a hammer hitting the strings, a plectrum (similar item some guitarists uses) plucking the strings. Unlike pianos, volume control is difficult in harpsichords (and to some extent pipe organs).
Some examples of (non-Ace Attorney) harpsichord music from Johann Sebastian Bach.
I don't really think this is the proper sub for this, but I'm aching to know what the instrument used in these three songs is called, it sounds great and I have no idea what it could be:
SICKOTOY feat. Minelli - Addicted
SICKOTOY feat. Roxen - You Don't Love Me - Edit: if you listen closely, the instrument is used here as well in the Chorus, the synth strings are sort of overshadowing it though
It has a Eastern European/Oriental sound to it, sort of like a Balalaika, รiftelia, Sitar etc... But it kind of sounds more aggressive and full
These three EDM/house songs are all by Romanian artist SICKOTOY, so maybe it's a traditional Romanian instrument?
The melody is almost identical to this: https://onlinesequencer.net/1477499
I remember hearing the song on a video involving a rather large cat walking/running, but it was on Instagram and I don't remember the account that posted it.
The instrument sounds somewhat banjo-esque, with a pretty strong twang, but I don't know what it is exactly.
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Could it be a traditional Sino-Japanese instrument? Or perhaps a sampled instrument? It almost sounds like a Harpsichord, but it's kinda of different...
What's that instrument I keep hearing in classical music that sounds like strings being plucked?
I've noticed I don't hear much of this sound in a lot of songs, so if you could post some and help I'd really appreciate it /r/electronicmusic. :)
So I know my way around a piano keyboard. Having one hooked up to my computer basically allows me to play every instrument I want. The only problem is, I don't know how some instruments are patterned in a song. Like, I know a good piano melody. But I'm finding it hard to put the right pattern of pizzicato strings down, as it's always different from the piano melody (usually very playful in the background etc). Also I'm having the same problem with strings, violins etc. It's a completely different progression than piano. I have all the right vst plugins, but I have yet to find a plugin or pack that has like custom midi patterns that you can set to the right instrument or whatever.
I want to prevent all the melodic instruments in my songs to all sound the same by putting in the same pattern (if that's event the correct way of saying it)
I hope I'm making a bit of sense as I'm not a native speaker. But any bit of help would be more than welcome!
For example, the piano is played differently than the pizzicato.
Seems every other stringed instrument, including modern and traditional instruments are tuned elusively in 4ths (like the guitar *mostly* is) or in 5th (like mandolins and violins). I understand the "why". Chords are made much easier because of this and an entire language of guitar playing has been created with it meaning it would be very impractical to tune the guitar 'logically'.
Did the guitar in its modern form always have this tuning? Who invented/populorzied it? When and how did it become the exception to the rule?
Edit: Thanks for the great answers! Is physics of music something taught in music school?
Inspired by this exchange between me and the esteemed u/aleagio. I just thought I'd open it up to more people!
On his point about metal strings-- how hard would that be to manufacture for a pre-industrial society? I can think of a few examples of wire used for jewelry in the ancient world, especially from Celts and Vikings. That would have been extremely expensive and not suited to mass-production, though, right? And would the results even be supple enough for use on a stringed instrument? I'm also guessing that this production cost would preclude medieval-style poor troubadours with lutes.
And what would be the minimum level of technology in order to begin making such strings, iron age?
A thought I had just today is that musicians could be a special caste in society that would take the sacrifice needed in other areas of their life in order to file down their claws enough to be used on regular gut string (perhaps their customers could feed them in exchange for a song?)-- though maybe at that point it must just be better for them to just use an external plectrum lol! Do you think this could this work with a creature that had claws like a cat or an iguana (mine and his animal-people, respectively)?
Reuploaded because I can't brain good and screwed up the title...
...but one day they woke up and chose violins.
The listing where I purchased this described it as an "Ethiopian kora" but it does not look like any kora I have ever seen. Ethiopian stringed instruments are called "krar" or "begena" and have a horizontal cross piece on the top (unlike this one.) The only other one I can find is referred to as a West African Bolon (but it doesn't look like any other Bolon I've ever seen.) I'm stumped!
It may not even be African. I'm going through all of the plucked instruments I can find to try to place it...no luck so far.
https://preview.redd.it/2yotgi8zeb421.jpg?width=880&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0e54f3ca117943403c3bf6c780e901760e07188d
I know the โTaishou Gotoโ is a thing. But Iโm thinking of a string instrument where, when you push a button it presses on a fret like the Taishou Goto but also loudly plucks it like a harpsichord. Does this exist? If not, dibs on stonks!
The violin-ce.
