What started out as a simple exploration of sounds for the Pianobook sample challenge, ended up being an entirely new instrument project.
I recorded many household objects, but this stainless-steel milk frothing mug interested me. Using a leather wrapped mallet, I found that if I strike it in just the right spot and with the right velocity that the frothing mug rang out almost perfectly in F.

I ended up with 2 velocity layers and 5 octaves of strikes. The next question was,” How is this all going to come together? It’s kind of a simple “Bell” instrument but is that all there is? ” I puzzled over this until late one night and a name came to mind. Being a milk frothing mug, I thought the play on Glockenspiel was almost too perfect. “Frothenspiel” And with the name came more ideas. In keeping with the espresso/milk frothing motif, I recorded my coffee bean grinder. Once the grinder reached full speed, it has a noticeable tone to it.
I don’t have an espresso machine, so I tried canned air. The canned air was great, as I let out more air it changed from a hiss to a gurgle, mimicking steam frothing milk.
And with these new samples came the Frothenspiel Pads.

The Frothenspiel pack includes two main groups of samples, bells and pads with 6 presets.
The Bells consist of samples that range from C3-C8 and have two velocity layers.
The Pads have 3 layers, Bell, Grind and Froth. These range from C2-C7.
All presets include Low and High pass filters,Reverb and Delay controls, while the Bells have a Chorus control and the Pads have a ADSR envelope control.

The Presets:
Bells- Clean and simple metalic strikes.
Jingle Jangle- Shimmery echoes.
Lead- Gritty saturated notes.
Pads- 3 blended layers
Ethereal- The Bell layer in space.
Deserted- Waves and wind with a bit of grit for sound design.

Bells(C3-C8)
Pads(C2-C7)

Delay Times- (.25=240bpm) (.5=120bpm) (.75=80bpm) (1=60bpm)