This is kinda old news apparently, but I just found out about it, so I’m sharing it just in case.

I stumbled across a section of the Philharmonia Orchestra’s website that houses 100’s of free samples of orchestral instruments playing both single notes and short melodic lines. Seems like these could be pretty useful to ccMixter folks. The only downside is that all the samples seem to be individual instruments (i.e. - no sections or full orchestra samples)

From what I can tell they are giving them away for composers to use royalty-free. A quote from them said: “This means that the samples are free to use for creative musical purposes. Even if you use them to create a No.1 selling CD (in fact we hope you do), we will not make any charges or any claim for royalties.”

I didn’t actually try it, but they even have a in-browser sequencer on their site for people to mess around with arranging their samples.

http://www.philharmonia.co....

This sounds familiar although I can’t place where I might have heard this before. But yeah, this is a very, very cool find, and thanks for it!

Whoo thanks mate!! I used to have a great sample cd but I lost it a few years ago, this has the same great quality. How did you stumble upon this one?
I think there should be a perment link some where on this site??

And here’s 85 free real brass samples of good quality: http://www.newyorkbrass.com...

Another link for classical instruments:
http://theremin.music.uiowa...

In the page is written:
Please feel free to use these samples in your research or music projects without restriction.

And also at (CC licenced):
www.archive.org/details/orchestral_samples
..which is why they might be familiar

This is interesting:

http://board.soundclick.com...

this is awesome!

Nice find.