Re: Analog to MIDI to Analog!
By Marc Kaufman
> Just a point that could be of interest - I've just received the latest
> catalog from Hammacher-Schlemmer. They advertise a modern orchestrion -
> at first glance I thought it was a Ragola buildup but it isn't. They
> say it has twelve percussion instruments plus piano and operates from a
> built-in CD player. "An impressive collection of live instrumental and
> vocal recordings provide additional accompaniment to each song." And it
> only costs $US16,000. . . Now, either there's some MIDI-to-Analog stuff
> going down here or it's the most expensive dancing Coke can I've ever seen!
> Best wishes to all
> Michael Woolf
I think one of these was in the foyer at the MBSI convention. It is like the "accompanied" PianoDisk and Disklavier arrangements. Piano and percussion is MIDI, other instruments (strings, woodwinds) and vocal accompaniment is analog (well, CD digital). I wasn't impressed, since it leaned too far to the analog tracks (IMHO).
There was another "Orchestrion" there that we eventually ran out of town. It looked like a band organ but had ONLY the percussion (drums, cymbal) as real instruments. The organ pipes were all synthesized! Not enough of a good thing.
Marc Kaufman
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