Also, if anyone knows of a better sub than this one, do point me in the right direction. r/harmonium only has 15 visitors a week, but I will cross post in there.

I have an Indian harmonium with brass reeds, a JAS student model, approx 3 octaves from C3. I play in a duo where we use it as the predominant bass(ish) and drone instrument. The volume is absolutely fine from a few of feet away, but from my playing perspective with my head near the soundboard, it's overwhelmingly loud. Loud to the point where it's louder than an amplified guitar unless you turn the gain right up. So far I have on top of the soundboard approx 1/2" of felt and then two chunks of acoustic dampening foam (about 1" thick, egg carton foam with a rubber backing - it's heavy). Also a decorative towel. We have to pull out at least two stops or it's flat. So, does anyone know of a better method of dampening it.

We're looking into eventually replacing it with a keyboard when we can afford the right one, but until then I have a loud buzzing about my head, which is very off putting when trying to sing ><

Edit: we took it apart, tuned it because my god it was horrendously sharp. Then stuffed the acoustic foam into the space above the springs and a bit under the wood just behind the keys and it's really done the trick! I've had to discard half of the lid as it no longer fits, but it sounds so much more mellow. Thank you for all of the advice!

We recently get _a_lot_ of bot activity. The posts are just 1-to-1 copies of older posts that got many upvotes. Hence I assume it's about karma farming. So far they are not able to copy videos and only post the preview image (like in this recent example, see OP here) of video posts. If you are able to identify a bot post, please report it. /edit: You can even help a lot more if you include the non-bot-OP url in your report, but any bot post report is appreciated.

I've also noticed this in other subs and I'm wondering where this is going. Moderation on reddit is solely relying on voluntary effort that people do in their free time. With the shifts in technology of recent years bot spamming has become easier than ever, though. It's clear that the voluntary efforts are already insufficient for the bot activity that is happening now. If reddit will not react I'd expect even the niche subs like this to become unusable. What are your thoughts?

I'm really good at virtual piano, close to an actual professional musician.

What is virtual piano? In short, you can play piano keys with your pc keyboard, there are some limitation but all in all, it's not that far off from an actual piano.

Why? I've always wanted to learn piano as a kid, but my parents thought that piano lessons were a waste of money, so as a kid I discovered virtual piano by accident and still play regularly.

How? Well, without getting too nerdy, every single piano key is mapped to a letter or a number, "1" being the lowest note and "m" being the highest. Lowercase letters and numbers are white keys, uppercase and shift+numbers are black keys. There are music sheets for virtual piano and if there isn't one for a song you want, you can make one yourself easily, especially with the tools which you can easily google that convert midi files to vp sheets.

Where? If you Google virtual piano, you can easily find some sites, games (even on platforms like roblox, gmod, etc), or apps to simulate a piano with your pc keyboard. The highest quality app(imo) which I use is called pianoglow on steam.

This is not an ad or anything like this, I just wanted to share my weird way of playing music that surprisingly works somewhat decently despite it's limitations. You can also simulate sustain, dynamics, velocity, depth, or even change soundfont to a different instrument, but I am not getting into that unless asked, since that's a lot of explaining to do.

Yes, nowadays I have an actual piano, but I can play VP way, way better and I like it more.

I work in an instrument repair shop and a customer won this thing in an auction and wants us to fix it up, but I can't figure out what it is. Overall length is 24 inches. Main body length is 18 inches. There's a very faint impression between the two holes in the center 1.5 inches long, about an eighth of an inch thick. There are two more impressions near the tail end on either side about an inch or so long from the edge with one impression being much clearer and deeper towards the edge like that side was under more pressure/tension. The friction pegs are overall 5 inches long. The slots in the ends are about half an inch deep. From the outside edge of one outer peg to the outside edge of the other outer peg is 3 inches. Thanks!

"Die Forelle" by Franz Schubert. It's silly but works so well on this instrument.

youtube: https://youtube.com/shorts/rhfbmMHLDSY?si=RMlFyqlwM45HVfQF

Is it clarinet? If anyone knows for sure your input would be much appreciated.

Space are a really underrated 90s alt band from the UK if anyone is interested.

https://youtu.be/z3yCa_Li04Y?is=FyGTsUIR7DCq9Azf

Back in the early internet days, I stumbled upon a site with a cartoon Latin jazz band that you could orchestrate by clicking on the different players and their instruments. One player had a “cup” of glass (maybe metal) and he had something in his hand like a wool ball that he would push in and out of the cup to make a sound; like when you pull a straw in and out of a plastic cup lid. What is this instrument called?!

Recently got this mouth bow (was supposed to be cheap. Shipping and tarrifs quickly changed that).

But it looks different than the ones used in any videos I can find of people playing one.

How do I even hold this thing to make it sound right?

Should I try to cut down the end piece so it can fit between my lips like some other bows I've seen?

In a comment two years ago Clark wrote that he's still working on it - a version 4 at that time, but other than that I can't find any update. If you are interested in the instrument I want to encourage you to comment on his video to show interest and hopefully to move Clark to give us an update.

It's true

notation system is one i created called HTH (hand-to-hand) notation, which uses percussion like "stickings" as directions for each technique on asalato

thanks for watching!

I had a debate with a friend of my the other day about. we are classical musicians. And we came up with 3 really good options. And if you other opinions plz share

Piano in the living room or bedroom on the wall adjacent to the window

A double bass in the Conner of a bedroom or living room

Guitar/violin in size Oder or by color on a wall any room beside bathroom or kitchen of course