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Blüthner Style 6 PRO

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THE STORY

BLÜTHNER STYLE 6 #90513

The old family piano. It comes to me now after the passing of my mother on March 16th 2020. She was diagnosed with ASL 6 months earlier. On that night she is in her bed, unable to speak, struggling for air. A ventilator, pressing oxygen to her failing lungs, hisses and puffs. Its soft timely heaving, devastatingly peaceful. The Piano is right next to her and I want to play something for her but somehow I just can’t.

Later I wish I had given myself to that.

This 1913 piano is also showing its age. It has a cracked frame but still holds it’s tuning. In the months after her passing the idea of sampling this piano begins to obsess in me. I want to remember its sound long after it is gone. It is only later that I realise, this is my catharsis.

old family piano
outside position

I have samples every note in five velocity layers, pedal up and pedal down and all of it again with the soft pedal engaged. There are two mic positions utilising three mics each.

Outside (far left on the mic dial) was recorded with two PDA 4001’s for wide stereo and an SE3300 for mono fill placed just above the keyboard almost inside the hammers with the keyboard lid removed. This is an attempt to try capture the sound of the piano as I remember it.

Inside (far right on the mic dial) was receded with two AKG C414’s in XY with a The TUL F47 is modelled on the Neumann U47 FET built by Tully McCullagh in Cape Town as mono fill. The inside mics have a much closer stereo field but a beautiful clear attack which compliments the outside array.

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A collection of sounds

Richard Vossgatter
Something To Love
Richard Vossgatter
Senegal
Richard Vossgatter
Is That You
Chris Howard
Lighthouse
Richard Vossgatter
I Hope You Stay
Richard Vossgatter
Is That You
* Commissioned for PAPYRUS which exists to reduce the number of young people who take their own lives, by shattering the stigma surrounding suicide and equipping young people and their communities with the skills to recognise and respond to emotional distress. We believe that no young person should have to struggle alone with thoughts of suicide.

FEATURES

vintage piano sample library

GUI

The Blüthner Style 6 GUI is simply elegant

Three main knobs control key and pedal noise, mic position and dynamics respectively.

The reverb and delay master knobs control the amount of reverb and delay in your mix.

The Soft Pedal button switches between Soft Pedal on or off. The Soft pedal or Una Corda (One string) gives a muted felt tone to the notes and is hauntingly quiet.

 

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Features

Blüthner LITE

Blüthner PRO

Samples

1777

5249

Note Sample

30

80

Size

4.46 Gb

13.37 Gb

Una Corda / Soft Pedal

Basic Reverb

Deep Dive Reverb

Deep Dive Delay

Deep Dive EQ

Dynamics Controller

Bespoke Particles Engine

Noise Samples

Advanced Backend Settings

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