Klarinet Archive - Posting 000386.txt from 2000/10

From: Richard Bush <rbushidioglot@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Real musicians don't.....
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 17:06:51 -0400

This summer I went to my daughter's wedding in Monterey, California. The
wedding was, overall, wonderful, but the hotel that hosted the wedding had one
of those high tech pianos playing, turned on and plugged into an AC outlet in
the lobby.

Couldn't talk to it--couldn't make a request--couldn't tell the piano player
how much I enjoyed his playing. What a turn-off.

Bill Hausmann wrote:

> At 10:09 AM 10/8/2000 -0700, William Wright wrote:
> >...But these were special because of the mechanical skills and
> >inventiveness and visual impact. I suppose that there is skill in
> >moving a few keys electronically, but the particular instrument that I
> >saw last night reeked of 'phony'. In the original player pianos and
> >mechanized 'bands', you could see everything working and you could
> >admire it. The emphasis was on the builder's skills, not on phony
> >opulence.
> > and I suppose that it hurts more when a person is working hard to
> >learn to play music himself.
> >
> > It just hit me wrong.... what else can I say?
> >
> It IS quite a bit more fun to watch the mechanical contrivances of an
> earlier age do their thing, but the newer electronic ones actually do it
> much better. I used to spend a lot of time in a museum much like you
> describe myself, and marveled at the ingenuity displayed. But remember,
> they still record the performances by having someone actually PLAY on a
> recording version of the machine, just like in the old days, at least on
> the Yamaha Disklavier. As before, post-production can be used to correct
> mistakes, etc.
>
> 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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