Tingalin - Amazing fun guitar like music app

Tingalin - Amazing fun guitar like music app
  • $ 4.99
  • Version: 1.4
  • Category: Music
  • Released: 2008-09-01
  • Size: 2.57M
  • Author: Tingalin, LLC
  • Rating: 4+
"Before I go to bed I simply must play my Tingalin!" ~Imogen Heap

"The Tingalin iPhone app simulates this two-stringed instrument with absolute fidelity, going as far as to recreate the wrist-based strumming technique of the ancient Çifteli masters."

~Tech Crunch

Everyone LOVES the Tingalin app!

If you enjoy string instruments such as the guitar, banjo, setar, sitar, oud, and other lutes then you will love this app!

Tingalin is a music instrument application based on the Albanian lute Çifteli (meaning "pair of strings"). This unique application is easy to use and best of all it is lot of fun! Five melodies are preloaded to get you started right away!

Tingalin is played by tapping the 14 notes on the instruments handle. Each note is recorded in the tab and the entire melody is played by shaking the device, as if strumming the real instrument. Each strum up and down (meaning shake of the phone) a note is played. Tempo is controlled by the frequency of your strumming! Tuning can be adjusted to your prefered pitch using the slider control +/- 1 octave.

Now you have the ability to share your melodies with friends via email!

Playing tips:

The strumming algorithm is designed to mimic as closely as possible the way the real instrument is played. It is sensitive enough to allow strumming in both the up and down direction. You can also vary the technique by strumming in one direction, bring your hand back up gently and strum in the same direction again etc.

F4 is the open string note and in my melodies I use it as a bridge because it is tuned close to the drone string and it transitions well between chords.

Notes do not resonate long so you may have to elongate a note by playing it multiple times or choose a lower pitch that would resonate longer.

Higher pitch faster strumming.

The Çifteli is a wooden instrument with a long thin handle and a pear-shaped sound bowl. This two string lute looks similar to Setar, Saz and Tambura; however, its sound is unique. The first string is used to play the notes while the seconds strings acts as a backup harmonic tune.

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