The Mule Piano - By Wrongtools

MULE PIANO is a piano library for Kontakt that offers a palette of unusual multi-sampled piano sounds, designed for composers and storytellers seeking instruments with genuine character.

https://wrongtools.com/kontakt-instr...ample-library/

Specs:

23 patches

2,897 samples

About 3.5 GB of grit and glory

Runs in Kontakt (retail)

Highlights? There’s the Paper Grand, where cigarette paper turns the hammers into butterflies. The Cork Piano, all thuddy and woody like a ship’s belly. The SPZZ Grand, draped in chain, sounding like a piano that’s been through a few bad marriages. And the Mallet Grand, struck with rubber and carrying echoes of gamelan temples.

But here’s the kicker: unlike a lot of “prepared” pianos, this one’s consistent. Every patch has its own world, the same character across the whole keyboard. So you can actually play it—make it sing, groan, whisper—without it sounding like a junk drawer falling down a flight of stairs.

If you’re tired of shiny pianos that sparkle too clean, and you want something with a busted smile and a heart of gold, The Mule Piano is waiting.

This is the "Paper Piano Patch", sampled with layers on thin cigarette paper on top of the strings:

Here's the Cork Piano Patch. A piano recorded with tiny cut pieces of cork gently stuffed between the strings. This one's for the quirkyness, for the cracks in the sidewalk. A piano that's seen a few things and isn't afraid to tell you about 'em:

You'll also find the rotten Dictaphone Piano. This ain’t no concert grand, fresh off the boat from Germany. This is a piano that’s seen some things. Got some stories etched into its old wood. We took it down to the bone, peeled back its polite skin, and shoved some truth in there.

And here's a demo of the mallet piano patch - made with miniature rubber mallets, hitting the strings in the piano:

https://wrongtools.com/kontakt-instr...ample-library/:synth: