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| 967.1 | | AKOV76::EATOND | The Mike Mongeon Band: 10/9, Holden | Thu Oct 01 1987 13:23 | 6 |
| I keep my 'pre-MIDI' analog mono synth set aside for this very
purpose - entertaining stray kids while trying to do 'serious' music. I've
been quite surprised at the tones my 4-year-old boy has come up with - mostly
in the category of 'sound-effects'.
Dan
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| 967.2 | Well, well ... there are others | DYO780::SCHAFER | Dragons is *so* stupid ... | Thu Oct 01 1987 13:25 | 12 |
| Interesting ...
I have a couple radiation-hardened ARPs laying around that I will turn
on and let my (now almost 5 ?!) daughter play. It's amazing some of
the riffs and effects that she pulls off. (You don't need M or Jam
Factory with a kid in the house.)
Unfortunately, the wife is not so fond ... the kid's last filter
rez/sweep sent the cat on a tear thru the house and scratched up a
floor she just stenciled ...
8-)
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| 967.3 | Childish Dreams | 4TRACK::LAQUERRE | | Thu Oct 01 1987 13:25 | 16 |
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Sounds like fun! It's amazing how fascinated our 11-month-old is with
musical instruments. I keep my acoustic guitar leaning in a corner of
our den. He's learned to crawl, stagger, or drive his walker up to it,
pull open the unlatched case, and drag his fingers across the strings.
As he's strumming, he has this need to look up at an adult every few
seconds with this huge smile on his face just to show how proud he is
of this accomplishment.
When it comes to my keyboard, all he needs to see is the exposed white
and black keys as I remove the cover and it's fun time. I'm hoping that
as my home studio expands, I can have a room full of equipment for him to
grow up with. Like I try to explain to my wife Sheryl, all these
instruments and gadgets aren't for MEeeee. They're for our son!
Peter
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| 967.4 | What we gain... what we lose... | DREGS::BLICKSTEIN | Dave | Thu Oct 01 1987 13:49 | 23 |
| Adrian Belew (Frank Zappa Band, King Crimson, The Bears, etc.),
noted guitarist has a cut on his "Lone Rhino" album that's a tape
of his 4 year old daughter picking out notes on the piano.
There's a liner note that says this occurred one night in the studio
as he was holding her while keeping the sustain pedal down. When
he listened to the tape later he was amazed by the "adult"ness of
the piece and added some guitar parts to it and put the thing
eventually made it on the album.
As I read that liner note before having listened to it I was thinking
"what typical parental my-kid-is-special bullpucky". I have to
admit that is my typical reaction.
HOWEVER!!!! When I finally got around to listening to that piece,
much of what he said struck me and I really like that piece.
I seem to have no choice from my own observation to accept that
yeah, it sound like parental pride, or some sorta of ridiculous
projection about the gift of childhood, but it's really true.
Kids are capable of some truly amazing things.
db
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| 967.5 | Electronic Kid | FGVAXZ::MASHIA | Crescent City Kid | Thu Oct 01 1987 15:32 | 24 |
| My son (18 months) has his own Casio keyboard, complete with automatic
drums/fills and bass. He *loves* it, especially the drum button.
He's into turning the volume up as loud as it will go, turning the
tempo up as fast as it will go, hitting the drum button, giggling
delightedly for a few seconds, and then crawling (now walking) away.
My wife has since removed the batteries and the adapter. :-)
But I wanna tell ya', those things are *sturdy*. It's survived
being dropped, drooled on, played as a drum with a stainless steel
tablespoon, and danced on with hard soled shoes (His, not mine).
He also loves the microphone-and-digital-delay trick, especially
when I use the "infinite repeat" button. He keeps looking at the
speakers, looking for the other two kids.
When I got my Dr. T's sequencer software, the first thing that got
recorded was him falling on my CZ101.
He also likes to play my acoustic guitar, but only when *I'm* playing
it!
Boy, if I'd had that kinda stuff when I was his age...
Rodney M.
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