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  • Cembalom

    Hi- is anyone using a cembalom sample which they can recommend ?

    Kay.


  • I made one, around the year 1991, for the legendary Austrian Sound Library (ASL) - available in Ensoniq EPS 16+ format only. The so-called "Hackbrett" consisted of about 20 individual samples (a total of about 500 KB). I think it's still available from Chicken Systems.

    8-)

    /Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library
  • Dietz, a Hackbrett is not a Cimbalom, although it is similarely played. But I'm sure you know that.


  • By the way I wonder if anyone remembers the film that used a cymbalon (as it was spelled) in a prominent part.   A score by the great Miklos Rosza in "The Power"  which even used a closeup on it being played.  That is a very good film that absolutely no one in the world but me seems to know about. Directed by Byron Haskin who also did the original War of the Worlds.


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    @mathis said:

    Dietz, a Hackbrett is not a Cimbalom, although it is similarely played. But I'm sure you know that.
    ;-D ... I was waiting for this reply. The jury is still out on that, as there _are_ local differences, but the instrument itself is considered to be more or less the same: -> [URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammered_Dulcimer#Names_for_the_hammered_dulcimer_in_different_countries[/URL]

    ... no, I won't raise a quarrel with you on this topic ;-)

    /Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library
  • Yes, the hammered dulcimer is locally called Cimbalon, as well.

    But I guess the thread starter was talking of a "Concert hammered dulcimer", as it is described here:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimbalon

    That's something different than a Hackbrett...


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    @Dietz said:


    ... no, I won't raise a quarrel with you on this topic ;-)

    But I do. 😉


  • OK - then you will have to digest the fact that [b][URL=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Clavinet_d6.jpg]this[/URL][/b] is a Hackbrett in its ultimate shape. [Y]


    /Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library
  • Hmmmmmm, that tastes yummie....!!


  •  You have a cymbalom in best sevice Akai Cd rom : World colors... Cheers !


  • The best one i've encountered is part of Quantum leap Gypsy, though the Library is expensive and the rest of the instruments are so-so..Next after that would be Bolder sounds dulcimer and cimbalom library and more reasonably priced too.


  • Thanks for all the answers.  I actually like the Boulder Sounds one, and the Bavarian Zither as well. They both suit my pocket at the moment too.

    Kay.


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