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The Old Busted Granny Piano is a Tonehammer specialty. We realized that there is already a million other amazing piano libraries around, but none of them ever captured the authentic beauty of a dusty-old-haven't-been-played-since-granny-lost-her-hearing upright piano. There are a number of broken and badly detuned strings, especially in the upper ranges. We couldn't afford a repairman, so you'll just have to live with them.

This library includes a variety of natural and custom programs, from totally raw to ever-so-slightly tame. The piano was captured dry, but we've included a collection of unique custom captured impulse files from a variety of unusual physical locations and spaces . We even also included "percussion" patches, so that you can just play the broken keys, rattles and clunks to your heart's content. There are also special effect patches that take the granny piano in creative new directions.

The Old Busted Granny Piano features Kontakt, EXS and SFZ format instrument patches. Special effect and "wet" patches are Kontakt only, but the included stereo impulse files are compatible with most common stereo .wav compatible convolution reverb plugins.

Tonehammer Old Busted Granny Piano Facts:

• $39
• Authentic, nostalgic, untuned upright piano
• All White and Black keys from A -1 to C7 are individually sampled (even the broken strings)
• All notes from A -1 to F#0 and F4 – C7 sampled at 3 velocities
• All notes from G0 – E4 sampled at 4 velocities
• 2x Round-robin on the mf layer between D3 – E4
• Including lid opening/closing and pedal press/release sounds
• With and without damper
• Soulful and rather poorly tuned
• Bonus selection of custom convolution reverb impulses
• Full pdf readme manual
• 21 kontakt instrument patches
• 11 EXS and 7 SFZ instrument patches
• 707 samples, 944 MB installed, 265 MB .rar download
• Sample resolution: 44.1Khz/16Bit stereo wav format
• Format(s): Kontakt 2, EXS24, SFZ and .wav
• Note: Native Instruments Kontakt 2 / 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.

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Demo 1
Featuring: Tonehammer Old Granny Piano. Custom Guitar and Bass.
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Demo by G. St-Laurant

Demo 2
Featuring: All instruments besides Old Busted Granny Piano are non-Tonehammer samples.
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Demo by Mike Peaslee

Demo 3
Note: This track is contains ambient sound FX to set mood for "The Entertainer"
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Demo by Troels Folmann