Wash Tub Bass
Published by: differential enterprises
Current Version: 1.1 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested) released 2009-08-10
Price: 0.99
Category: Music
App Description
This app is a virtual Wash Tub Bass, which in the real world is made of a tub, a broomstick, and a string stretched.
Application now works on iPod Touch 3.1.2 OS.
Only the "string" is displayed on the app. You tilt the device to stretch or unstretch the string, then you pluck the string to make the tone. Touching the screen stops the tone. By tilting the device thru different angles before you pluck, you can play about an octave range of tones.
The Knobs screen which is accessed by the Knobs button allows you set the particular pitches played. Bass and treble and sustain (how long the tone lingers) can be set here too. The Frets control determines which particular pitches are latched onto. Typically about a 15 to 20 degree change in tilt of the phone will change the note one step of the the scale you have set (major or minor, chromatic etc) in the Frets setting. You can also go "fretless" and play free form pitches, but that is fairly difficult. The wood setting changes how much the string buzzes when you stop the tone.
For best results, you will need to use headphones or an external speaker for this app, and we suggest turning down the treble or turning down the high frequency ranges if you have an equalizer involved.
We reprint here a letter from the inventor of the iPWTB to send you on your way into Western musical glory:
Howdy, moo-sician!
Pluck middle for soft n' left for loud.
Mute string by touchin' it.
On the far right side you can pick up yer finger without pluckin'.
Tilt to change pitch like a broomhandle bass,
by stretchin' and un-stretchin' the string.
All the way flat with the screen pointin' up to the sky is a high note. Hold it vertical and there's yer middle note. Screen pointin' to the ground is a low note.
'Course, there's all the in-between notes.
See, ya rotate the thing with one hand and pluck with the other. And ya rotate it so that...aw, shucks. You'll figure it out.
Use Knobs to change it up.
Now, you be sure 'n play real purdy for Uncle Hank!
Signed most sincerely,
Hillbilly Blues Hank
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