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Mike Raiford wrote:
> I'm watching How It's Made, specifically the segment on how how player
> piano rolls are made. Looking at the roll, it suddenly clicks. It looks
> EXACTLY like the piano roll interface used in most music editing
> applications. Literally, the representation had been around since player
> pianos have been around. Epiphanies are so fun...
Hehe. Nice. ;-)
I once saw a fairground organ that was controlled by - well not a *roll*
exactly, but rather a series of metal sheets, hinged together like the
old tractor-feed paper. Each sheet had a series of holes punched in it.
Since an organ is a pnumatic instrument anyway, you just gotta line the
holes up with the pipes. Sounded pretty nice...
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