The Old Days Are Gone, Gone, Gone

I love a piano, and in particular a nickelodeon player piano.  There
are still some of us around, and hence there is an MMD.

Today it is getting harder to sell a real piano, just as it has also
gotten more difficult to sell a typewriter.  Computers (there is one in
front of you) have replaced the trusty old typewriter.  When I went to
college with my new electric typewriter, I was in high cotton so to
speak.  The fact is that in today's world the college student wants a
word processor with a nice printer.  I bet that you are reading this on
a computer with a word processor program.  Aren't you?

In the music business today, you need only to pull up to a red light
and listen to the music in the car next to you.  I doubt you are going
to hear music sounding like a player piano.  From my experience, I
would say that you are most likely to hear some strong bass and lots of
rhythm that we (professional music persons) refer to as crap or rap.

Yes the typewriter has faded from popularity and so has much of the
music that many of us still love today.  The music business in general
is also feeling the effect of rap music, with the toll it has taken on
musical instrument merchants.

Don Teach