Still bored? More piano stupid here:

[Stephen Airy]

My idea of what to do with old uprights that need to
be destroyed (like ones that have broken plates, or
Aeolian spinets) would be to make desks or electronic
player pianos (with electronically generated voices,
like Yamaha Clavinovas) out of them.

--- Gary Bruce <Gary.Bruce@oc.edu> wrote:
> 
> I had (have) in the back recesses of my imagination
> the thought of
> taking an old piano, upright or grand, that truly
> needs to be destroyed
> and making 88 instruments, one note each using the
> action parts from
> each note to somehow generate a midi signal to a
> central tone source
> (preferably a sampled concert grand).  Then
> transcribe a Liszt or Chopin
> or other piano piece for 88 performers.  Each
> performer has one note to
> play, the note that would have corresponded to the
> key which they have
> before them.  Kind of a handbell choir concept taken
> to an extreme.
> 
> Don't think I'll live long enough to have the spare
> time to construct
> such a thing but it could probably be categorized as
> a stupid thing to
> do.
> 
> Gary Bruce, RPT
> Edmond, OK


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