Gangsa vs Harmonium

"Gangsa" is a musical insturment which is used in Balinese Gamelan, an Indonesian traditional performing art. This application has very beautiful sounds which were sampled from a real instrument. Just by tapping the screen, you can easily enjoy a musical performance and the atmosphere of Gamelan. You can also try using advanced play techniques such as muting and sliding. Features: - Play a long beautiful sound by tapping a metal bar. - Play a striking sound by tapping a wooden sidebar, although it is not usually used. - Play successive sounds by sliding your finder over metal bars and wooden bars. - Mute a playing sound by pressing the bottom end of a metal bar. - Play a muted sound by tapping while holding down the bottom end of a metal bar. - Hold playing a muted sound by pressing the top end of a metal bar. - Each metal bar and side wood have two sound samples to provide a natural sound. - All sound sources are optimized for an iPhone/iPod touch speaker. - Play stereo sound by using headphones or stereo speakers. - Images and animation are used to provide visual feedback while playing. - Play together with other iPod music. - A "Visual Effects" switch, a "Auto Mute" switch and a "Master Volume" slider.

Harmonium will enable you to play different styles of harmonium, perfectly in tune. If you're interested to play indian music (karnatac or hindusthani), this is the perfect "travel" harmonium you need. Tune your harmonium such as the great singer masters where doing, in the indian harmonic scale. You select harmonic scale, and the base note. That's it. If you prefer to play western music, religious music, then tune the harmonium to the common tempered scale. You'll have a big church harmonium in your pocket! Our harmonium can do automatic transposition. You can play in any key with the same keyboard position. You just need to select the note to play on the C key of the keyboard. Harmonium contains two sound flavours : - Traditional Harmonium, with deep sound of original reeds - Modern flute organ, simpler, heavenly Each sound flavour has a simple set of reeds, or double (with octave). The harmonium can be tuned between A 380 Hz and 470 Hz. An option enables harmonium to play while your iPhone / iPad is playing music. This is very convenient for training yourself to accompagny your prefered artists! Play karaoke with your harmonium! For getting the best sound from this instrument, it is advised to use a good headphone or a pair of speakers with loudspeaker. We should distinguish Harmonium from Shruti (or sruti). Actually, the harmonium is a melody instrument and is usually used to follow the melody played by the soloist (sitar, bansuri, vocal, tabla, ...). The Shruti is only used to play continuously a set of notes (drone) for create the musical atmosphere.