There is one instrument no one asked for!

[Styxx]

A blade of grass blown between the thumbs that gives off a sort of high shrieking shrilling Steven seagull sound! Why you ask? Cause you didn't. :D
I think it should be added in and Gary and his team of island castaway scientist should use the new Morph technology! Just think, Garritan Morphan Solo Grass sounds!:D

Shhhhhhh, someone's knocking at my door. Oh, it's only the guys in their clean white coats coming to take me away ha ha!

[SeanHannifin]

In elementary school, only a select few (including me) were able to blow that sweet grass sound. We formed "The Grassblowers Club" and discriminated against the non-grassblowers :D

[Stephanie Pray]

Wow! That really takes me back to the good 'ol days when I actually could do that because I had nothing better to do! Oh sweet nostalgia... :p

[Marcussen]

does it come with legato?

[SeanHannifin]

I remember one day at lunch my friend showed that he could wiggle his ears. I decided I would like to be able to do that, so I sat in front of the mirror for a couple hours and somehow taught myself to do it! But I can't do them one at a time . . . and I can't raise one eyebrow at a time either . . . I'd sure like to learn to do that somehow . . . hmmmm

[Markleford]

Some Balinese music groups play similarly on leaves from a bush. Neat stuff.

- m

[JonFairhurst]

Last year I made a Giga Straw Library.

My son learned that if you cut two triangles out of the end of a plastic straw, you can play it as a double reed. If you get the straws with the bendy thing, you can put a few together for saxophone shapes.

My son made a soprano, alto, tenor and baritone, and we sampled him playing them. The hardest part was trying to keep from laughing during the recording.

These samples are now the secret weapon of my private collection.

They're not for sale. ;)

-JF

[Joseph Burrell]

You shouldn't tease us with details like that if you aren't selling them Jon. And about the topic, heck I'll buy anything so if you release it, I will come. :p

[chmara]

How about some Big Band Samples of the late Spike Jones instruments. The would sure add color to any collection of samples. Or are those several instruments no one asked for?

[Ivan P]

In elementary school, only a select few (including me) were able to blow that sweet grass sound. We formed "The Grassblowers Club" and discriminated against the non-grassblowers :D

I'm sure you did ;)

LOL,

Regards,

Iván

[Garritan]

Wow! That really takes me back to the good 'ol days when I actually could do that because I had nothing better to do! Oh sweet nostalgia... :p

That does bring back good memories. Being a child, you make music in any way possible. A blade of grass between the thumbs, blowing paper through a comb, beating rhythms on cans, and making music with everything in sight. I hope that in our digital age children will not loose sight of the musical world around them.

Gary Garritan

[SeanHannifin]

Hmmm, I'm surprised George Crumb has not yet composed a piece for grass-blowing . . . :D

[FireGS]

How do you change pitch with a blade of grass?

[SeanHannifin]

I guess you could blow faster . . . :) And if you keep blowing for while, you can get dizzy and light-headed. In fact, I never went back to normal.

[Styxx]

How do you change pitch with a blade of grass?
Smoke it! :D

[SeanHannifin]

Smoke it!
Oh, maybe that's why I never went back to normal :eek:

[provette82]

I can hear it now......
Concerto for Winter Rye in Db,
Sonata in F for Mexican Crabbgrass
Interlude in C for zoysia and alto Blue Fescue
The "Bermuda" Symphony.
"Centipede" Opera in 3 creeping acts with Prologue

"P"

[Styxx]

I can hear it now......
Concerto for Winter Rye in Db,
Sonata in F for Mexican Crabbgrass
Interlude in C for zoysia and alto Blue Fescue
The "Bermuda" Symphony.
"Centipede" Opera in 3 creeping acts with Prologue

"P"
:D :D

[Godfrey]

How about some Big Band Samples of the late Spike Jones instruments. The would sure add color to any collection of samples. Or are those several instruments no one asked for?
I definitely second that motion! I mean, apart from things like his tuned bicycle horns and cowbells, the City Slickers could do amazing things with mutes...

[SeanHannifin]

NAMM 2006/Anaheim, CA – January whatever, 2006 – At the NAMM 2006 show, Garritan Orchestral Libraries, award-winning developers of affordable and high-quality orchestral software libraries, introduced its new Grass & Animal Band collection. For $999, the Garritan Grass & Animal Band Library offers a complete package of grass blade instruments to create realistic-sounding grass and animal band arrangements quickly and easily.

Just like the award-winning Garritan Personal Orchestra, Garritan Grass & Animal Band is designed for all musicians ranging from entry-level to professional musicians. The program features buffalo grass, crab grass, bermuda grass, turf, seaguls, cats, dogs, squirrels, elephants, zebras, a complete farm section and more. Key elements to Garritan Grass & Animal Band library are extended ranges, variety of articulations for animals (stepping on tail, crying, eating, dying, etc) and a comprehensive collection of birds. Furthermore, it offers advanced programming for expressive control. It offers the Kontakt Sample Player and GPO Studio to work with notation programs. With Garritan Grass & Animal Band, users control dynamics, animal tongue/slur articulations, grass length and width, blowing speed, and more.

Garritan Grass and Animal Band will be available for $999 on both Macintosh and PC platforms Spring of 2006.

[UNIX_GURU]

How about some Zither samples?

[provette82]

Just like the award-winning Garritan Personal Orchestra, Garritan Grass & Animal Band is designed for all musicians ranging from entry-level to professional musicians.
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Will there be Paramecium, Amoeba and South Pacific white whale sounds....my decision to purchase requires them.

Paul O

[Karl Garrett]

In China, there exists the ancient art of leaf blowing. Tan Dun (you might remember him as the composer of the wonderful music in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon") has composed an incredible work called "The Map".

The Map is a multi-media concerto grosso for cello, orchestra and video. The videos were filmed in rural China. The piece is built around scenes of men and women playing and singing using ancient techniques of such things as leaf blowing, tongue-singing, cry-singing, stone drums etc.

My Son took me to here this magnificent work performed by Anssi Darttunen on cello and the Philadelphia Orchestra with Mr. Dun conducting over the holidays. It was one of the most delightful and enspiring works I have ever heard. I came out of the concert hall with not only much admiration for Mr. Dun and Mr. Karttunen, and the video performers, but for the incredible musicianship of our beloved orchestra who played brilliantly in this very difficult work.

This piece is available on DVD and I urge anyone interested in something wonderfully different to pick it up. There sure is a heck of a lot in there that Gary might think about sampling. :)

Karl

[Styxx]

Along with Leaf Blower there should be Weed Whacker as well. :D