Harmonica SoundFont

[Don Whitener (cdon)]

In June 2005, Sherry posted in another thread:

"A harmonica solo would be sweet, as I've found a really nice harmonica soundfont that sounds extremely good. I've tried it out a little, and it's extremely promising! I found it on the HammerSound soundfont site."

A Google search happened to turn up this reference. The font doesn't appear to still be there, or I can't locate it. Sherry, do you have the name of it? Or do you, or anyone else please, know of any other harmonica soundfonts? The Google search was not productive...

[Sherry Crann (sherry)]

Howdy Don,

The name of it is Harmonica.sf2. It came as a zip file (a bit unusual), and is just under 2 Mb in size.

I also didn't find it at HammerSound - that's a bummer. If you want that one, I can email it to you (it says it's free for distribution and editing). There is also another one available at http://www.sf2midi.com/index.php?page=sdet&id=8262, but it's much larger (~8 Mb). It has the same filename, but it's definitely a different soundfont - more on the attack, but "breathier". Very good, just different than the other one.

I also have one called "Monsoon's Hohner C harmonica" that I picked up at http://www.sf2midi.com/index.php?page=sdet&id=6178 It's around 3 Mb, and is also good, just different than the other two.

If you'd like the first one that seems to be no longer available, let me know and I'll email it to you. The other two are available at sf2midi.com, but their server seems to be really slow right now, so it might take a few minutes to download the fonts.

And be sure to post your harmonica song when you're done, in the "Share your music" section - we want to hear http://www.notation.com/discus/clipart/happy.gif

ttfn,
Sherry

[Don Whitener (cdon)]

Thank you Sherry... I would very much like a copy, and I will download the other two as well. I've been meaning to look into harmonica fonts for a while now. Finally getting around to it. :-) I appreciate your help.