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Little Pump Reeds

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"…There is no reality – only perception…" – Dr. Phil

This collection explores the smaller side of hand-held reed-based instruments. It includes fine quality hand-crafted traditional Indian Shruti Boxes,  a mini accordion and something we like to refer to as The Plastisax. We even found a 2-note paper and cardboard concertina. 

As always, we've sampled each instrument lovingly and thoroughly. We took them much farther than they were ever designed to go and found sounds surprisingly rich, full and playable. In the end, we just decided it was high time somebody give these little misfit toys the respect and attention to detail that they truly deserve.

 
The centerpiece of this collection is the Shruti Box. This traditional Indian instruments is similar in nature and tone to the harmonium. It's most commonly used as a drone to accompany voice and other solo instruments in Indian classical music, as well as a growing variety of new age and Celtic folk music. It's a flat wooden box, played upright, with a hand-pumped double-bellows system inside to drive a series of 13 reeds. While they are normally intended to provide a smoothly sustained drone instrument, we've sampled and programmed ours to be quite playable as a melody instrument, much like a reed organ or harmonium.
 
Our mini accordion is actually quite the little giant, with 14 keys and 4 bass drones. With a warm, fat tone and plenty of body and bass that belies it's humble size, this little instrument is a real diamond in the rough. The Plastisax is vaguely like a child's plastic soprano saxophone, but sounds more like a crisp, clear harmonica crossed with a reed organ. It has 13 keys, spanning roughly 2 octaves. With it's rich, warm, playful sound and expressive playability, it's ideal for children's music and programming, or even layered with woodwinds or organs.
 
Tonehammer Little Pump Reed specs:
  • $49
  • Core instruments/articulations
    • Shruti Box 1 (soft attack/release)
    • Shruti Box 1 (hard attack/release)
    • Shruti Box 1 (modwheel tone/expression control)
    • Shruti Box 2 (soft attack/release)
    • Shruti Box 2 (hard attack/release)
    • Shruti Box 2 (modwheel tone/expression control)
    • Baby Accordion (natural / tight)
    • Baby Accordion (auto-pump / natural / tight)
    • Baby Accordion (modwheel tone/expression control)
    • Plastisax (clean / tight / natural)
    • Plastisax (dirty with natural key finger-click sounds  / tight / loosely played)
    • Plastisax (modwheel tone/expression control)
    • Paper Squeeze Box (single note / auto-pump / hand slap percussion)
  • Extensive read me (.pdf)  install, patch and hint documentation
  • Listen to exclusive (.mp3) interview w/ Mike and Troels
  • 59 instrument patches, +999 samples
  • 1.36 GB installed, 1 GB .rar download
  • Format(s): Kontakt and .wav
  • Note: Native Instruments Kontakt 3 / 4 full retail versions required.
  • Note: Free Kontakt Player will only work for 30 minutes with this product. Full version required to remove this restriction.

Little Pump Reeds Demo 1 by T.B. Folmann and Steve Tavaglione


Featuring: Tonehammer Little Pump Reeds, Mini and glitched beats
Note: This library also features samples from upcoming Tonehammer libraries: Tabla and African oriented Forgotten Voices: "Terrie"
Note: All solos and ambiences are played by Steve Tavaglione using EWI and Baby Accordion only.

Download "Little Pump Reeds Demo 1" mp3 demo
Download "Little Pump Reeds Demo 1" (Little Pump Reeds only)  mp3 demo

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Little Pump Reeds Demo 2 by T.B. Folmann


Featuring: Tonehammer Little Pump Reeds, Symphobia, Custom Orchestra and Choir
Download "Little Pump Reeds Demo 2" mp3 demo
Download "Little Pump Reeds Demo 2" (Little Pump Reeds only)  mp3 demo

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Little Pump Reeds Demo 3 by T.B. Folmann and Steve Tavaglione


Featuring: Tonehammer Little Pump Reeds and chip eating from our Mini library
Note: The desire of this demo was to see how wacky we could take the library. The solos is made as a chase between Tavaglione and Folmann.

Download "Little Pump Reeds Demo 3" mp3 demo

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9 Comments

admin

January 16, 2010

Thanks for the kindness. The demo is all a midi-based composition, but custom orchestra/choir refers to the fact that the samples are derived from non-commercial libraries recorded for personal purposes.

greg

January 16, 2010

Demo 2 is incredible !!! 
May I ask what Custom orchestra and choir means ?  Might have been played by real people, possibly ?
Your other products are fantastic too !

Tyrone Dimery

November 30, 2009

I am searching for some material on Alto Saxaphones and I’ve just stumbled upon your site! An interesting read which I enjoyed and found to be of value. I will enjoying coming back be able to stay longer.

Mike Barry

September 25, 2009

Good work guys – really cool idea for this one.

Ruckus

September 24, 2009

Demo 2 is the coolest cue I’ve heard in a while – I keep playing it over and over. Awesome!

In demo 1 I see a reference to “glitched beats” is that another upcoming TH product?

manu riga

September 24, 2009

-drooling- credit card and paypal are ready to finance it
you guys are far better in this Ethnical stuff then any other company in the past , present and future.

Troels you are a legend!!!!

admin

September 24, 2009

Thanks for the kindness. We don’t have a set date for Tabla and our African inspired Forgotten Voices “Terrie”, but probably sometime in October or early November – depending on a few factors.

manu riga

September 23, 2009

woooow demo blowed me away,
to be honest not because of the reed alone
but especially the Vocals…..
As i am not using reeds for now , i will not buy it
but the Tablas and the Vocals are stunning

please tell me when we will be able to buy Terrie

keith fuller

September 22, 2009

Demo 2 is one of the coolest things I think I’ve ever heard from you. I doubt many people thought of using an accordion like that.

This is great writing on top of great imagination.

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