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Hammered Dulcimer 是一种具有 31 对琴弦的高保真发声弦乐器。它的声音在电影配乐和阿拉伯民族音乐中广为人知。它是一种美妙的乐器，可以用可爱的弦乐闪闪发光的声音丰富您的音乐。
锤击扬琴
Hammered Dulcimer 是一种弦乐器，有 31 根弦对在梯形音箱上展开。通常，Hammered Dulcimer 放在音乐家面前的架子上，音乐家拿着小木槌敲击琴弦。
扬琴有两个琴桥，一个靠近右侧的低音琴桥和一个位于左侧的高音琴桥。低音琴桥支撑着在琴桥左侧演奏的低音琴弦。高音弦可以在高音桥的任一侧演奏；在左边弹奏它们比在右边弹奏它们高五分之一。 Hammered Dulcimer 的琴弦是成对出现的，每个音符有两根琴弦。每组琴弦都调音一致，称为一门课程。与钢琴一样，每门课程使用多根琴弦会使乐器更响亮。然而，由于课程很少完全一致，通常会产生合唱效果 – 例如曼陀林。
我们在两个麦克风位置录制了锤击扬琴。在仪器的顶部，我们放置了 – 在 ms 立体声设置中 – 一对 Neumann U87，在底部，我们放置了一个冷凝器。这两个位置涵盖了广泛的声音。我们以小三度演奏锤击扬琴，主要集中在三种不同的发音上。首先我们录制了“正常”的音符，这意味着我们用典型的小木槌敲击琴弦；我们称这种发音为“木槌”。
此外，我们用鼓棒敲击琴弦，并将其称为“Sticks”。最后，我们录制了一个发音，我们用定音鼓敲击琴弦并用手掌阻尼琴弦，我们将其命名为“静音”。对于“Plec”的发音，我们使用拨片拨弦，“Vintage”是该乐器先前版本的残余。这些发音被记录在 4 个循环变化和多达 4 个速度层中。
除此之外，我们最关心的是制作典型的 Hammered Dulcimer 颤音。调制轮控制这种类似滚动的颤音，您可以通过转动轮控制颤音节奏从慢到快。我们加入了一个随机因素，该因素会自动影响速度和速度，以避免听起来不自然。此外，我们还添加了一些功能和效果，例如混响控制、失真和八度。这扩展了锤击扬琴的整个声音，并为您提供了许多选择。
我们推出了一种乐器，无论您将它用作独奏还是仅用作背景乐器，它都能以美妙而有机的感觉丰富您的音乐。
62 TRAPEZOIDAL STRINGS
The Hammered Dulcimer is a high fidelity sounding string instrument with 31 pairs of strings. Its sound is well-known in film scores and in ethnic Arabian music. It is a wonderful instrument to enrich your music with lovely strings’ shining and glimmering sound.
HAMMERED DULCIMER
The Hammered Dulcimer is a stringed instrument with 31 string pairs stretched over a trapezoidal soundbox. Usually, the Hammered Dulcimer is set on a stand in front of the musician, who holds small wooden mallet hammers to strike the strings.
The dulcimer has two bridges, a bass bridge near the right and a treble bridge on the left side. The bass bridge holds up bass strings, which are played to the left of the bridge. The treble strings can be played on either side of the treble bridge; playing them on the left side gives a note a fifth higher than playing them on the right. The strings of a Hammered Dulcimer are found in pairs, two strings for each note. Each set of strings is tuned in unison and is called a course. As with a piano, using multiple strings per course makes the instrument louder. However, as the courses are rarely in perfect unison, usually it results in a chorus effect – such as with a mandolin.
We recorded the hammered dulcimer in two microphone positions. At the top of the instrument, we placed – in an ms stereo set-up – a pair of Neumann U87s, and at the bottom, we put a single condenser. These two positions cover a wide range of sound. We played the hammered dulcimer in minor thirds and concentrated mainly on three different articulations. Firstly we recorded the “normal” notes, which means we hit the strings with the typical small wooden mallets; we called this articulation “Mallet”.
Furthermore, we struck the strings with a drum stick and called the articulation “Sticks”. Finally, we recorded an articulation where we hit the strings with a timpani mallet and damped the strings with the palm of the hand, which we named “Muted”. For the “Plec” articulations, we plucked the strings using a plectrum, and “Vintage” is a remnant of previous versions of this instrument. These articulations were recorded in 4 round robin variations and up to 4 velocity layers.
Besides this, we cared most about producing the typical Hammered Dulcimer tremolo. The mod-wheel controls this roll-like tremolo, and you can control the tremolo tempo from slow to fast by turning the wheel. We included a random factor that automatically affects the tempo and velocity to avoid sounding artificial. Furthermore, we added several functions and effects such as reverb control, distortion and an octaver. This expands the entire sound of the hammered dulcimer and gives you many options.
We came out with an instrument that enriches your music with a nice and organic feel, whether you used it as a solo or just as a background instrument.
