Trapezoid - Pocket Dulcimer for Android

11 things about Trapezoid - Pocket Dulcimer

1. Touch the "i" to bring up the settings screen where you can set the overall volume, enable or disable the drag roll feature, and set the roll sensitivity for how far you need to drag to get the roll effect.

2. To play, just touch the strings on either side of the left (Treble) bridge or the left side of the right (Bass) bridge just like on the real instrument.

3. If you are having trouble hitting the notes you want, show the note names by touching the "?" and then, when playing touch directly on the note names for best playing accuracy.

4. This app has the full range of a standard 12/11 style (9/9 style for 4:3 format iPads) instrument and supports both Standard and Michigan (octave) tunings.

5. This app sounds and plays as close to the real instrument as I'm capable of doing on a touch screen.

6. To get repeated note "drag roll" effects, drag quickly horizontally across the strings.

7. Touch the "?" to show the note names for the strings.

8. Audio samples of Wes Chappell's amazing dulcimer provided by Jesse Chappell from ThumbJam.com. The instrument was built by James Jones, from Bedford, VA.

9. 12/11 means there are 12 bridges on the Treble (left) side of the instrument, 11 bridges on the Bass (right) side of the instrument.

10. The app also may be played from a MIDI keyboard connected to a hardware MIDI interface or other MIDI controller or MIDI file player apps.

11. When playing via MIDI, the app is velocity sensitive based on the velocity sent with the Note-on events.