Klarinet Archive - Posting 000377.txt from 2000/10

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Real musicians don't.....
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 12:27:00 -0400

From: "William Wright" <Bilwright@-----.net>
> There's nothing wrong with this, of course,
> except that the polished baby grand piano was equipped with a DVD, and
> it was a baby grand *player* piano. The keys moved as it played, and so
> forth.

It's a pretty common add-on nowadays for pianos. Unfortunately, it's also
put a number of musicians out of work - quality stores that used to have
piano players adding to the ambience of shopping now use these devices for
the background music.

Not a DVD, but either floppy or CD-ROM. They're a special type of file -
they record what a piano player does (including half pedaling, etc.) and
recreate the mechanical action. A little more sophisticated than a player
piano, but not much. Just replace the pneumatics with electronics.

I guess you don't like player pianos, either ...

Mark C.

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