Created by Dan Keen: "Welcome to Soft String Spurs Extras, a sample library of my viola, serving as an accompaniment to the original and very successful Soft String Spurs. This library has been such a joy to put together and I hope you enjoy using it just as much as I enjoyed creating it. This library was recorded diatonically using three microphones – a close AKG C451B about 2 feet from the viola and a stereo pair of AKG C214s about 2 metres away. The samples were double-tracked, enabling a rich stereo field. The samples were then edited and processed using echos and reverb and cleaned using RX7."

Download it for free here: https://www.pianobook.co.uk/library/soft-string-spurs-extras/

Soft String Spurs Extras

These tracks were created as part of the Pianobook project.

Curated by one of the founders of SPITFIRE AUDIO, Pianobook is a collective sample project that aims to bring together a community of like-minded music makers to talk about their stories through the pianos they use, admire and are inspired by.

To find out more about the project, how you can get involved, and to download these (and many more) FREE sounds, visit
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Soft String Spurs Extras - Tremolo

SONGS for solo piano, live workshop performance by Joseph Havlat

II: Ayre (SONGS)

III: Chorale (SONGS)

beautiful performance by the wonderful pianist Richard Casey recorded by Steve Plews (prima-facie)

nagahama fragments (2012) 

(twenty fragments for piano)

a piano fragment written each day during a summer spent in Hiroshima, Japan. August 6th is the day in 1945 when the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima at 8:15am. “Little Boy” is the name given to the bomb by the servicemen aboard the Enola Gay.

Aug. 1st	0’:00”	mangetsu (full moon)
Aug 2nd	1’:08”
Aug 3rd	3’:45”
Aug 4th	5’:04”
Aug 5th	6’:11”
Aug 6th 	6’:48”	little boy
Aug 7th	8’:38”
Aug 8th	9’:03”
Aug 14th	10’:30”
Aug 15th	11’:56”
Aug 17th	12’:18”
Aug 18th	13’:17”
Aug 19th	13’:44”	umi (seto nai kai) – the inland sea
Aug 20th	14’:54”
Aug 21st	15’:00”
Aug 22nd 15’:20”
Aug 23rd 16’:21”
Aug 24th	16’:56”
Aug 25th	17’:58”
Aug 26th	18’24”

nagahama fragments

Scrap (from VESTIGES) for mixed ensemble, live workshop performance

Tune:
Preston Yeo, violin (leader)
Emily Stephens, oboe
Nikolai Iaushev, clarinet

Drones:
Charlie Howells, viola
Bella Lorenzo-Giguere, cello
Marianne Schofield, double bass

III: Scrap (VESTIGES)

STUDIO Rhythmic Robins - Taktfastir Svartthrestir _MASTER_44Khz-16Bit-19052023_KSS_1

Recorded using solely Soft String Spurs Extras and Soft String Spurs by Dan Keen available for free here:
https://www.pianobook.co.uk/library/soft-string-spurs-extras/

Photo by Vincent Burkhead on Unsplash

Fragile (Soft String Spurs demo)

Created using free instruments from www.pianobook.co.uk:
Christian Henson's Tracked Piano 
Dan Keen's Soft String Spurs & Soft String Spurs Extras

Elegy

This track was created using several libraries available at pianobook: Soft String Spurs, Soft String Spurs Extras and Swarmonics.

To find out more about the project, how you can get involved and to download the above mentioned libraries and many more free pianos visit

www.pianobook.co.uk

The Long Defeat

A melancholic piece realized with some all-time favorites from Pianobook, including the recently released "Study Piano" by Patrick Gammack. For more information, visit: https://www.pianobook.co.uk/
Original photo by Pierangelo Ranieri on Unsplash

Fading

Music Educator, Composer, Arranger, Conductor

Elegy

John-Paul Bowman

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