Klarinet Archive - Posting 000384.txt from 2000/10

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Real musicians don't.....
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 16:28:28 -0400

At 03:32 PM 10/8/2000 EDT, OrionDJ12@-----.com wrote:
>Player pianos are kinda neat. I always wanted to see what made them play.
>Isn't it some kind of wheel with little metal notches on them so whenever
the
>notch hits a little tuned bar, it makes a noise? Right? I get everyone all
>catawumpus, didn't I?
>
I think you are thinking of a music box. A player piano is a REAL piano,
played pneumatically using paper rolls with both pitch and duration encoded
into them with holes. This can now be done electronically, with the keys
tripped with electro-magnetic impulses coming from CD's or floppy disks,
which can hold much more data and generally include dynamics and pedalling,
unlike all but the very finest "reproducing" pianos of the earlier time.
By the way, the QRS company still makes the old-style punched paper rolls,
and sells the pianos to play them under the Story and Clark name.

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.com
451 Old Orchard Drive http://homepages.go.com/~zoot14/zoot14.html
Essexville, MI 48732 ICQ UIN 4862265

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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