My secretary found this and passed it along to me - we talk music since she sings in amateur choirs.
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/11/viola-organista/
What a wonderful creation. The video is a delight.
Thank you!
Wow! Thank you for sharing!
Amazing. I hope you pay her well!
An observation:
I really like the concept and am amazed it works as well as it does.
However, I find listening to it musically unsatisfying. I do not believe this is the result of it being unfamiliar, but because it sounds so mechanical with no variation in touch or volume.
On the other hand, I enjoy harpsichord which similarly cannot vary touch.
Perhaps it is a combination of learning the sound and needing music written for the strengths of the instrument.
I wonder if a proper recording and perhaps hearing it live would help to make better sense of the two actions on the strings. I too found it a bit monotonous, odd given that it is supposed to be anything but.
Well, clearly we don’t pay her enough because she alerted me to the fact that we have a rather impressive museum here about which I knew nothing:
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/library-museum-gallery/museums-and-galleries/musical-instrument-museums
You can do a virtual tour of the collection, which is rather nice.
This is an impressive collection. Very nice.
This one is nice, too:
http://www.museomusicabologna.it/