The Spieluhr (as known as musicbox) is a small instrument
which produces sounds by the use of a set of pins placed
on a rotating cylinder plucking the tuned teeth of a steel
comb*. Our musicboxes are tiny with a size of 2,4 x 2 x 1?.
The Glockenspiel is a percussion instrument, composed of
a set of tuned metal bars resting over a frame like
a trough. We used the legendary red children model of
Hohnerwith a small range from C4 to F5.

Thanks to their high pitch, both instruments produce
a very assertive and bright sound.

For sampling the Spieluhr we used three different models
each with a different melody: the 5th movement of the 9th
of Beethoven, the wonderful Romeo & Julia theme and The
Entertainer. We set all these musicboxes on the body of an
accoustic guitar as well as on the body of a baritone ukulele
and recorded them in a close distance near the soundhole.
Beyond this we recorded the musicboxes very normally on
a surface of a wooden desktop.

The Glockenspiel was recorded in several dynamic layers and
3 times Round Robin variations in a close mic position. We
also recorded the Glockenspiel in a distance of 5m.

Beyond this we created and processed some FX instrument
patches and added some very useful scripting possibilities
such as damping, sustain, amount, delay and arp to the patches.

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