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ReverendLove · Post by **ReverendLove** » Thu Jan 27, 2022 4:20 pm

I wonder if there is a virtual version of this wonderful instrument.
https://youtu.be/Uk4-4qKzLVk

Examigan · Post by **Examigan** » Thu Jan 27, 2022 5:42 pm

Sort of a whammy bar type of thing there.

ReverendLove · Post by **ReverendLove** » Thu Jan 27, 2022 6:26 pm

As I understand it is played only with harmonics and then amplified. She uses a wooden pick against the heel of her hand

Tj Shredder · Post by **Tj Shredder** » Fri Jan 28, 2022 7:48 am

Its an electric instrument with a sustainer…

teacue · Post by **teacue** » Fri Jan 28, 2022 8:23 am

BTW the instrument is called "Đàn bầu" and not Ban Dao

I happen to own one, it is a quite amazing piece of art and it has such a wonderfull sound.
I always found the wood pitch bender so ingenious.
It leads the principle of a monochord to beautifull and undreamed results.

Here ist a version of Ru Con (a well known lullaby) which is often played on a Đàn bầu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcX8kO8i0oY

Tj Shredder wrote:Its an electric instrument with a sustainer…

Not sure how you mean this but I don't think this description applies.
An original instrument is just made of wood and a metal string and no electricity is involved.
But indeed a Đàn bầu will often be equipped with a pickup in order to be better heard when played together with an orchestra.

Tj Shredder · Post by **Tj Shredder** » Fri Jan 28, 2022 8:57 am

teacue wrote: ↑Fri Jan 28, 2022 8:23 am
Tj Shredder wrote:Its an electric instrument with a sustainer…
Not sure how you mean this but I don't think this description applies.
An original instrument is just made of wood and a metal string and no electricity is involved.
But indeed a Đàn bầu will often be equipped with a pickup in order to be better heard when played together with an orchestra.

Well, at the end she had a sustain lasting very long without triggering a new note… Strings tend to die out unless there is a sustainer…

teacue · Post by **teacue** » Fri Jan 28, 2022 10:17 am

You would be astonished to hear how long the natural sustain of a tone is on a Dan Bau

BTW only overtones are played.

But of course as soon as you have a pickup, nothing prevents you to use any additional effect.

ReverendLove wrote:I wonder if there is a virtual version of this wonderful instrument.

Bolder sound did a Đàn bầu sample library for Kontakt:
https://www.boldersounds.com/index.php? ... cts_id=134

ReverendLove · Post by **ReverendLove** » Fri Jan 28, 2022 12:01 pm

teacue wrote: ↑Fri Jan 28, 2022 10:17 am You would be astonished to hear how long the natural sustain of a tone is on a Dan Bau
BTW only overtones are played.

But of course as soon as you have a pickup, nothing prevents you to use any additional effect.

ReverendLove wrote:I wonder if there is a virtual version of this wonderful instrument.
Bolder sound did a Đàn bầu sample library for Kontakt:
https://www.boldersounds.com/index.php? ... cts_id=134

That looks promising. Thank you.
But now as I learned something about it I want that teal thing too.

teacue · Post by **teacue** » Fri Jan 28, 2022 1:04 pm

ReverendLove wrote: ↑Fri Jan 28, 2022 12:01 pm But now as I learned something about it I want that teal thing too.

I just notice that you are from Cologne.
In the middle of the eighties a vietnamese musicians group came to Cologne and gave concerts at WDR.
I had the luck to be in contact with some of the musicians.
One of them even made some hardware tunings to my vietnamese Mondgitarre

They were very talented and of course one of the member of the group played a Đàn bầu.

Vietnamese Monochord Dan Bau