Mechanical Music for the Masses
By Dick Bueschel
We all have our opinions about our music machines, but the _story_ isn't machines, it's the locations. That's why I write books. My forthcoming book, "Let the Other Guy Play It!" is about coin-op mechanical music in bars, saloons, speakeasies, restaurants, taverns and whatever exists today. Whether it is music box, multiphone, nickelodeon, amplified jukebox or the upcoming downloading music machines, and whatever the music of the day is, the beat goes on.
Some of us have fingers in a segment of this musical history, some have fists and armfuls in all of it, but taste is individual and we have no right to be taste makers for others. If people know what was available, and what it sounded like, they can make their own judgments. It's the locations -- where boys met girls for a century -- that make the public musical history of our times, and those before and those yet to come.
Taste is where you choose to hook on to this marvelous path of music and the messages it provides. Hurrah for all of it!
Off my chest. Let's see how _that_ plays. And, are there editorial comments?
Dick Bueschel
[ Comments? For now let's "Let the Other Guys Play It!" :-) -- Robbie
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