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Viola Organista Viola Organista Revolutionary Keyboard Instrument Invented by Leonardo da Vinci Implementation effort still being continued Akio Obuchi Keyboard Instruments • Piano, Celesta, Carillon – Hit with a hammer • Harpsichord, Spinet, Virginal – Pluck with a plectrum • Clavichord – Thrust (push) with a tangent • Organ, Harmonium, Melodeon – Blow or suck Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 2/36 Hit with hammer Celesta Piano Carillon Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 3/36 Pluck with plectrum Harpsichord Virginal Spinet Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 4/36 Thrust (push) with tangent Clavichord Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 5/36 Blow or Suck Organ Melodeon Harmonium Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 6/36 Limitation of Keyboard Instrument 1 • Sound only attenuates. (Piano, Harpsichord, Clavichord) Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 7/36 Limitation of Keyboard Instrument 2 • Sound continues, but no musical expression can be added. (Organ, Harmonium, Melodeon) Organ waveform Recorder waveform Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 8/36 Limitation of Keyboard Instrument 3 Frequency ratioonaLogscale. • Contradiction in Temperament 2 15/8 Equal temperament 5/3 3/2 : Scale based on natural harmonics 4/3 5/4 9/8 1 cdefgahc’ Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 9/36 Keyboard Instruments With most of the keyboard instruments, one can play a complex music like a symphony orchestra piece, with a limited ability of delicate expressions for each note. Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 10/36 Leonardo da Vinci might have already predicted potential limitations of keyboard instruments discussed in the previous pages and invented Viola Organista as an instrument which can overcome these restrictions, in >500 years ago !? Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 11/36 Variations of Viola Organista Geigenwerk Piano-Quatuor Streichklavier Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 12/36 Geigenwerk Hans Haiden 1600 Raymundo Truchado 1625 Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 13/36 Streichklavier Anonymous 1800? Courtesy of Carolyn W. Simons Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 14/36 Piano-Quatuor F. de Romden 1867 Courtesy of Carolyn W. Simons Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 15/36 Review of historical works 1 1488-89 Leonardo da Vinci Viola Organista, sketch only 1575 Hans Haiden Nuremberg Geigenwerk, arched viol(E), archiviol(F) 1579 Landgrave Moritz Hesse Copy of Geigenwerk 1590 Georg Kretsch Dresden Copy of Geigenwerk 1608 Vincenzo Bolcione Florence Copy of Geigenwerk? 1625 Raymundo Truchado 1650 Athanasius Kircher Machinamentum No.6, rosined horsehair 1673 Michele Todini Rome Archicymbalum symphoniarca 1674 Claude-François Millet Dechales Not built but theoretical work 1708 Cuisiné Paris Clavecin-vielle, one hand played keyboard and other turned crank ha 1722 Johann Georg Gleichmann Ilmenau Claviergamba 1730 Wahlfried Ficker Zeiss Claviergambas 1741 Levoir Paris Archiviole, weight driven pinned cylinder 1741 Roger Plenius London Lyrichord (15 wheels) 1745 Renaud Orléans Épinet á archet 1749 Levoir Paris Enlarget archiviole 1750 Daniel Bertin 1750 Georg Matthias Risch 1750 Johan Michael Pachelbel 1750 Renaud Paris Épinette a orchestre 1753 Johan Hohlfeld Berlin Bogenflügel, band of horsehair 1760 Le Gay Paris Two manual, combination of bowed and plucked 1765 Nils Söderström Nora, Sweden Clavier-gamba, imitation of Haiden's 1769 De Lasine Paris Combination of bowed and plucked 1772 Adam Walker London Delestina, violin bow by left hand 1778 H. Schmidt Rostock Improvement made on Hohlfeld's 1779 Johann Carl Greiner Wetzlar Bogenclaviere from "A Survey of Musical Instruments": Sibyl Marcuse Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 16/36 Review of historical works 2 1782 H. Schmidt Harmonica, with continuous bow by treadle 1783 Gottlieb Friedrich Riedeln 1789 Gerli Bonn 1790 Garbrecht / C. Wasiansky Milan 1790 Chladni Königsberg Euphone, friction bar piano 1795 von Mayer Görlitz Gut string, horsehair bow, flageolet register 1799 Thomas Anton Kunz Prague Improved von Mayer's instrument 1800 Carl Leopold Röllig Vienna Xenorphica, 1801 Huebner / Pouleau Moscow 1801 John Conrad Becker Patent for setting piano strings in motion by means of wheel(s) 1802 John Isaac Hawkins Philadelphia Claviola 1803 Tobias Schmidt Paris Patent the piamo-harmoniocon 1806 Johann Christion Dietz Organo-diapazo 1817 Isaac Henry Robert Mott Patented the sostinente piano forte 1820 Taconi Milan 1820 Abbate Gredgorio Trentino Venice 1823 Thomas Todd Swansea, WalesPatented an instrument with endless rosined band and drwo rollers 1827 Johann Christian Dietz Paris Polyplectron, continuous bow for each string 1828 Gama Nantes Plectro-euphone 1830 H. Lichtrnthal Brussels Patented piano-viole 1830 Archotti Rome 1833 Heinz Toelz Two namual, hammered and bowed 1838 H. Lichtrnthal Brussels Improved piano-viole called piano a sons soutenus 1861 Robert Thomas Worton Patented his vis-pianoforte 1871 Stead Improved Mott's sostinente piano 1909 Karl Beddies Gotha Streichharmonium 19.... Piatkiewicz Poland from "A Survey of Musical Instruments": Sibyl Marcuse Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 17/36 Late 20th-Century Geigenwerk Kurt Reichmann 1985 Courtesy of Carolyn W. Simons Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 18/36 Late 20th-Century Geigenwerk William Morton 1985 Courtesy of Carolyn W. Simons Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 19/36 Late 20th-Century Geigenwerk Akio Obuchi 1993 Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 20/36 21st-Century Geigenwerk Jon Jones 2003 Courtesy of Jon Jones Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 21/36 21st-Century Geigenwerk Courtesy of Jon Jones Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 22/36 21st-Century Geigenwerk Akio Obuchi 2002 Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 23/36 Slide nut pins The pin act as a fixed end for the string. Speaking length Pushed down with the keyboard. 24/36 AO Festival della Scienza 2004 Horsehair on circular disks Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 25/36 Findings • With the slide nut pins, both dynamics and tone pitch can be modulated by a player, changing a finger pressure. • Together with the tone modulations, vibrato is also available. • For most of keyboard players, it was too much freedom to be given an ability to control tone pitch for each note. • There are noticeable difference in loudness between tones for strings at higher and lower portions of the soundboard bridge. Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 26/36 Newly built Streichklavier Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 27/36 Interior of the case Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 28/36 Friction belt sub-assembly Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 29/36 Hollow to accommodate friction belts Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 30/36 Treadle to drive the friction belts Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 31/36 Rotating lever mechanism Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 32/36 Implemented rotating lever Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 33/36 Findings • With the rotating lever mechanism, tone pitch modulation can be controlled within a limited (can be nearly zero) range. • Dynamic expressions, corresponding to the finger pressure without changing tone pitch, are available. • Flat soundboard bridge helps even loudness and tone character over the whole range. • Speed of friction belt contributes a little for loudness and tone character. Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 34/36 Conclusion • Viola Organista aims to provide both complexity and delicate expressions at a time. With most of the keyboard instruments, one can play a complex music like a symphony orchestra piece, with a limited ability of delicate expressions for each note. • A number of instrument makers have been trying to implement the idea of mechanically bowed keyboard instruments in the last >400 years. • New instruments are still being developed. • Challenges for instrument makers and keyboard players will continue. Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 35/36 Thank you! Further information can be found at: http://homepage1.nifty.com/obuchi/index-e.htm or Festival della Scienza 2004 AO 36/36.
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