Washboard vs MBIRA Streaming

Turn your mobile device into a musical washboard! You can play the classic metal washboard as is, or customize it by adding instruments like horns and woodblocks in any combination. You can even add decorations like a flower, a sticker or party lights. Play along with your iPod music, or plug into an amp and join a jug band! Some reviews say the app doesn't sound like a washboard, but it does use audio samples taken from a real washboard. The samples come from a metal board played with 1" zinc washers -- this gives a sound harder than thimbles but softer than spoons -- and include a tap, scrub and wood sound. The add-on instruments also use real audio samples. Instruments include: - Small cowbell - Large cowbell - Small horn - Large horn - Tambourine - Cymbal - Small woodblock - Large woodblock - Service bell - Vibraslap - Toy chicken Decorations (no sound) include: - Toy dinosaur - Flower - Bow tie - Hula girl - Woody Guthrie sticker - Party lights If you have any MIDI equipment, you can also use Washboard as a MIDI controller. Map each instrument in the app to a note number in your sound module, then tap the board or attached instruments to send note-on commands. The MIDI commands are sent on channel 10 for easy access to most percussion modules. Before buying this app, I recommend watching the demo video at washboardapp.com to see how it works. If you need help after your purchase, please contact me before writing a bad review. I have no way to respond or help you if you publish your complaints in a review, but I respond promptly to all emails.

MBIRA Streaming brings more than 28,000 minutes of traditional Zimbabwean music to your iPhone and iPad. Explore a collection built over more than 50 years, centered on mbira and Shona music and also featuring marimba, village singers and drummers, other mbira types, and ngano. Browse albums and featured recordings, search the catalog, create personal playlists, manage your listening queue, and keep the music playing in the background. Features: - Stream MBIRA's full music collection - Browse albums and featured recordings - Search songs, albums, tunings, and musicians - Create and organize personal playlists - Build, reorder, and clear your listening queue - Continue listening with background audio - Use on iPhone and iPad About MBIRA: MBIRA is an educational nonprofit organization devoted to the traditional music of Zimbabwe. Its work supports more than 300 traditional musicians in Zimbabwe whose recordings appear in the collection, as well as instrument makers. MBIRA helps preserve and share this music with listeners and learners around the world. An existing MBIRA Streaming account is required.