Medieval Inn Jam Session

Circa mid 1300's: A man carrying a small drum enters a medieval inn and notices a number of instruments laying on the tables. After a couple of pints of godale he starts pounding his drum. Quickly a tambourine accompany him followed by a lute and dulcimer. Soon a flute joins the group followed by a hurdy gurdy. Then a welch (as a servant was called back then) sang a few notes. Then the knights of the square table started pounding their tankards on the table, soon to be followed by many others. Most were almost in time with the drummer. Note that the hurdy gurdy player loved his godal and had to stop a few times to take a drink. Note that I am way out of my comfort zone on this one.

Calm Lake MIDI 6-8 Ctry Ballad
Tempo - 50 BPM
Piano - Eastwest's Hollywood Fantasy Orchestra (EHFO) - Strings - Lute
Guitar - EHFO - Strings - Dulcimer
Utility - Kontakt - Hurdy Gurdy - I took the root note only from the Utility track and used it as the hurdy gurd drone and in sections via my keyboard controller I played a lead over it.
I am playing the following EHFO's instruments via my keyboard controller:
1-drums - Bodram
2-winds - flute
3-voices - solo voice
and via Kontakt the tambourine

As always all comments are welcomed.

If you are interested on how this came about keep reading.
I DLed a Kontakt Hurdy Gurdy and was looking for a style to use it in. After many different tries I choose Calm Lake MIDI 6-8 Ctry Ballad but I couldn't find any of my patches that would fit a medieval period.

I have been drooling over the Eastwest's Hollywood Fantasy Orchestra since it first came out as many of its sounds I could use in my ambient/new age songs. However it is expensive and I had not saved enough money to purchase it. My wife asked how is the song coming I told her about the problems. She said here is the rest of the money go buy that orchestra. The rest is history.

PS - Yes she is a keeper and I have kept her for about 61 years now, i.e. 3 years dating and 58 years of marriage.

I got banned from Weight Watchers for dropping a bag of M&Ms on the floor.
It was the best game of Hungry Hippos I've ever seen!


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