Introduction to the Harpejji D1: Part 1 of 2

[SPLENDIDZEN]

nice sound!...relaxing!...good work!...congratulations!...

[flyingdoctorcee]

wow true pure expressiveness..cool.

[iloverush123]

Really cool instrument. Great idea playing Superstition, too. It does kinda sound like a Clavinet.

[pietdepsi]

is re stringing it hard? where do you get strings for it? :o

[HAHAUKULELE]

WOW~that isssssssssss cool~!!!

[varnonzero]

Somehow the chapman stick speaks to me a bit more. Not sure why, I'm a keyboard player. Perhaps its the selection of demonstration songs?

I do think this is an incredibly elegant instrument. Very well designed. The electronic mute is particularly cool. I really hope this instrument takes off.

If I had enough money, I would totally buy this and a stick. Sadly, I can't afford anything at the moment.

I look forward to hearing more music produced on this instrument.

[nyronHarrison]

the next:: ground breaking instrument

[jicuridrum]

wow, very cool, congratulations...

[harpejji]

@jicuridrum Thanks for the compliment!

[ghitaciprian]

oh my God ! you are the designer ! o_O we all love you !

[neoduke007]

one improvement that could be nice would be a dial to set the length that a note keeps humming after you let go of the tap button ;)

It is pretty impressive but i dont quite understand how it works, its pretty damn impressive

[RandomGuyBlake54]

sort of like a sustain pedal on a keyboard or piano?

[neoduke007]

yeah, as when he lets go the sound stops so abruptly thus missing the lovely "hum" that a real piano has

[fetymann]

@neoduke007 that's not possible or else you'd hear the "open string" when you let go. 

[neoduke007]

@fetymann nothing is impossible with electronic music equipment it just takes the right ingenuity to design it so that it is possible...

[fetymann]

@neoduke007 the only solution I can think of is more reverb!!!!!!!

[DivineMoments]

Neat, but electronic keyboards can do all of that.

[baaltshuvah]

Well, not ALL of it. Most keyboards don't support key pressure (poly AT), so you cannot bend or apply vibrato to a single note in a chord, like you can on a tapping instrument. Guitar-like polyphonic slides aren't possible on a keyboard, either. Plus, this instrument gives you a two octave range with a single hand and multiple occurrences of each pitch (as many as 8; on a kb, 1 pitch gets 1 key). I agree that the effects are no big deal, but the voicing options and expressiveness are.

[soundslikeben]

Great job on the video. The sound is nice and warm. How are you making the finger muting sound? Its hard to tell from the video.

[garyopenhill]

Hi man, i think the muted sounds comes from tapping directly at the frets, insted of in front of them. So part of the finger tappes the string but part also mutes the string a bit.

[harpejji]

garyopenhill is correct. If you "fat-finger" right on top of the fret, so that part of your finger rests on the vibrating part of the string, you can get this muted sound.