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Re: Orchestrate My Piano ?
By Stephen Kent Goodman

In Digest 96.12.01 Damon Atchison wrote:

> I was pondering how to orchestrate my piano and if it's a good
> idea, and I thought I might be able to rig up an Ampico type valve
> system for 3 different instruments such as a xylophone, flute
> pipes, mandolin bar. I could use the bottom three and the top
> three tracker bar holes for my lock and cancel signals for each
> and rig each to the top 24 notes of the piano.

Dear Damon,

The point brought up by Craig Brougher is very valid -- only a motor- driven piano would have sufficient vacuum to operate xylophone pneumatics, even if they were single-strike. I wanted to add an extra instrument and manually control it, Photoplayer-style. The moment you get into adding control perfs in an 88-note roll, you rule out playing anything that will provide register changes except the rolls you hand edit yourself (recuts, I assume, unless you have a perforator). It is best to never hand edit original rolls.

Good Luck,

S. K. Goodman

[ Editor's note:
[
[ I modified standard QRS rolls for the Coinola orchestrion, with
[ modest success. You should see one of these old machines, Damon!
[
[ Robbie


(Message sent Wed 4 Dec 1996, 15:57:32 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

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