“That’s ridiculous! Stop that,” and with those words, the Harmonic Wife was forced to stop playing with ChordMate.
It all started the previous week when we did a promotion with MacZOT. Along with many new customers, we got an interesting request: to play chords on the trumpet.
THE TRUMPET????
How on earth do you play a chord on the trumpet? Even I, despite having much less musical training than Ilya, can tell you that you that you cannot play chords on the trumpet. A trumpet plays only one note. A chord consists of three notes.
Turns out our user had three trumpets. Or, more precisely, he hand an entire school orchestra, of which trumpets played a role. He wanted to use ChordMate chord diagrams to teach his students about chords.
Here is where it gets more interesting. Upon further research, Ilya discovered that all our users had trumpets. Or at least a trumpet sound on the MIDI sound card that comes standard with every computer. So a week later, Harmonic Sense released an update to ChordMate. Now you can listen to chords played on almost any instrument.
Ilya’s favorite instument is the Marimba. I like the Orchestra Hit, which, Ilya says, “sounds ridiculous.”
