On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, R. D. Davis wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Gary Hildebrand wrote:
> > Well to a lot of people used to Lawrence Welk, synth music has been likened
> > to 'crap' . . . .
>
> Now that's a case of the pot calling the kettle black! From what I
> recall, the music on the Lawrence Welk show was quite similar what one
> heard the organ salespeople playing, in shopping-mall music stores, on
> those horrible types of home organs with all of the built in horrid
> noises like cha-cha and polka rythms, etc.
I always wanted one of those, but they were too expensive ($1000 and up).
By the time I could afford one, they were pretty much disappeared,
replaced by cheap keyboards with built in horrid rhythms...
>
> Did any home organs have computers with floppies, etc. inside them?
>
Not until the mid-90's. On the other hand, there was a "Marantz
Reproducing Piano" that was like a player piano, but used digital signals
on a casette tape rather than the punched paper rolls.
http://www.mninter.net/~mfontana/pc2mid/desc.html
Some of the Allen Organs had a digital system where the tone quality was
determined by an 80-column punched computer card, but these were high-end
instruments, not really home organs. (Someone over on the Electronic
Organ List hacked this system, and determined just how the cards were
supposed to be punched in order to produce a certain sound)
> > One last note: Wendy used 'Walter' to enter a men's world in music back
> > then. Women still don't enjoy parity with men in the music industry, unless
> > they are a country singer.
>
> Ermm, wasn't she actually a he, who wanted to be a she, before an
> operation? That's what I heard, anyway.
>
Did (s)he get the operation before or after getting into the music
business?
Received on Mon Jun 26 2000 - 11:12:22 BST