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Songwriter Forum => Recording => Topic started by: Darlisto on February 13, 2021, 10:45:56 AM

Title: Help me Identify this Sound/Instrument Please
Post by: Darlisto on February 13, 2021, 10:45:56 AM

Hi there :)

Hope all is well. I've stumbled upon a certain sound many times and I'd love to use it in my productions, I just don't know what it is exactly. You're a hero if you can help me identify it and point out what it is exactly.

It is the 'Harpy/Dreamy/Arpy' sound in the James Bond Soundtrack 'Moonraker' by Shirley Bassey @ 0:04 & 0:14

You can listen a sample from it here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11-8HVMQwIwClricfP-ZMX6leu7n6U0em/view?usp=sharing

Thanks for helping me out on this :)

Warmly,
Charlie

Title: Re: Help me Identify this Sound/Instrument Please
Post by: Boydie on February 13, 2021, 11:43:16 AM

@Darlisto (http://www.songwriterforum.co.uk/index.php?action=profile;u=22722)

It sounds like a short strum of the mid/lower register of an Orchestral Harp to me

If I get a chance I will check my sample libraries for anything similar

Title: Re: Help me Identify this Sound/Instrument Please
Post by: MrBouzouki on February 21, 2021, 07:06:57 PM

I agree with @Boydie (http://www.songwriterforum.co.uk/index.php?action=profile;u=18510), it's almost certainly a harp glissando.

In this review of the John Barry score, whilst this might not be part of your sampled section, it suggests harp was used in the soundtrack so that's a bit of support for this idea. 

Quote

Bond Lured to Pyramid” is a beautiful track, colourful long-lined string phrases accompanied by florid, fluttering flutes and gorgeous harp glissandi – and that choir again, a rarity in Barry’s Bond scores.

http://www.movie-wave.net/moonraker/