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| 2712.1 | Don't laugh... | TALK::HARRIMAN | 'Politically Correct' is an oxymoron | Wed Sep 04 1991 09:53 | 10 |
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re: .-1
Those new Yamaha reproducing pianos take MIDI files. I saw one in
Burlington MA in the lobby of the Marriott, playing it's little
tin heart out. Pedals moving, etc. Nobody at the keys. Pretty
spooky, but I suppose they said that 100 years ago too.
/pjh
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| 2712.2 | | FORTSC::CHABAN | | Wed Sep 04 1991 18:44 | 17 |
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A buddy of mine at the MIT Media Lab kludged an optical scanner to
read Duo-Art rolls into a Sun and a NeXT. He then wrote a quick &
dirty routine to convert the preforations into MIDI note on and off
data. Finally, he came up with a routine to convert the "4 bit"
volume controls for each half of the keyboard and voila'!
He only scanned in one or two rolls before he broke his scanner.
I wish like hell someone would make this stuff commercially available.
BTW he's go two 9' Boesendorfer grands hooked up to his machines. One
talks MIDI and the other one is an earlier propretary systems.
Don't you wish you had toys like that!
-Ed
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| 2712.3 | | FORTSC::CHABAN | | Thu Sep 19 1991 13:23 | 10 |
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Guess what!
There's some company in Paris making *NEW* Duo-Art reproducing pianos!!
They're called "Pneumatique Contemporeine" Glad to see that Electronics
have not totally blown away traditional air power.
-Ed
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| 2712.4 | it's called "RAM Company" | NIOMAX::LAING | Soft-Core Cuddler*Jim Laing*229-7808 | Thu Oct 03 1991 16:47 | 7 |
| There's a company in, I think, northern California that sells kits and
built player pianos (old piano, NEW player mechanism). They deal in
jukeboxes too.
If anyone needs info, I can get ahold of their address/phone # ...
Jim
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| 2712.5 | | FORTSC::CHABAN | | Tue Oct 08 1991 15:18 | 5 |
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Yeah, I'd love to get some info!!
-Ed
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