Personally, I'd advocate the Morris Traveller School of Music.
Students are encouraged just to trundle along at a rolling pace, avoiding all fast tunes and sudden changes of speed while learning just when to press the floor button for those subtle key alterations.
Devotees of the MT method learn how to maintain their instruments without any need to call upon parts' stockists or repair shops. The piping class, for instance, provides a wealth of information regarding the replacement of drones with sawn-off bamboo chair legs and regulators with unnecessary components of central heating systems. Qualified MT fiddlers come to learn that a tennis racquet and Stanley knife are essential accoutrements while flute players soon realize that a slipping silver ring can be quickly replaced by woven hairs plucked from an Airedale Terrier (canine not included in MT school fees).
Added to all these essential skills are the joys of learning to recognize the various fungal forms growing within one's instrument (and selecting the correct ones to ingest) while devotees depart the school knowing that the musty, slightly woody odour accompanying them is a far more valuable reward than any competitor's certificate.
you know, after watching the video, one could even say that the tune the robot played was even somewhat musical...I expected a midi type of sound, but the programmers varied teh bow speed, but some phrasing into the playing..all in all a great view of what simple bow speed can do.
They even got it doing a little bit of vibrato. I'm not sure whether that was being done mechanically - the streaming video was starting to break up in places - but I'd have thought that would be an interesting engineering problem. However, perhaps it could be done more easily by software applied directly to the sound (I understand Autotune has a vibrato function, for example).
Now I'd like to see a robot string quartet convincingly playing Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - that would show that they have indeed "arrived".
They wouldn't get into my session, that's for sure. I've heard they're really tight when it comes to buying rounds of drinks. And they're SO arrogant. Just cos they don't suffer from nerves.
A good kick in the diodes, that's what they'd get from me. Then you get accused of cruelty to androids, and that you're a life-ist pig.
Toyota school of music
Toyota school of music
An alternative to the Suzuki method perhaps?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/technology_enl_1196944566/html/1.stm
# Posted on December 6th 2007 by Feargal French
Re: Toyota school of music
I wonder if they would do an implant?
# Posted on December 6th 2007 by Sunnybear
Re: Toyota school of music
Do you think she's called Peg and lives in Bow?
# Posted on December 6th 2007 by maxF
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Here's another one playing trumpet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5akbOKGSFM
# Posted on December 6th 2007 by slainte
Re: Toyota school of music
I reckon it's Frankie Gavin dressed up.
# Posted on December 6th 2007 by lazyhound
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But slainte, they play just like....robots!
However, no noodling and they always play in tune. And so well-behaved!
# Posted on December 6th 2007 by Batlady
Re: Toyota school of music
Personally, I'd advocate the Morris Traveller School of Music.
Students are encouraged just to trundle along at a rolling pace, avoiding all fast tunes and sudden changes of speed while learning just when to press the floor button for those subtle key alterations.
Devotees of the MT method learn how to maintain their instruments without any need to call upon parts' stockists or repair shops. The piping class, for instance, provides a wealth of information regarding the replacement of drones with sawn-off bamboo chair legs and regulators with unnecessary components of central heating systems. Qualified MT fiddlers come to learn that a tennis racquet and Stanley knife are essential accoutrements while flute players soon realize that a slipping silver ring can be quickly replaced by woven hairs plucked from an Airedale Terrier (canine not included in MT school fees).
Added to all these essential skills are the joys of learning to recognize the various fungal forms growing within one's instrument (and selecting the correct ones to ingest) while devotees depart the school knowing that the musty, slightly woody odour accompanying them is a far more valuable reward than any competitor's certificate.
# Posted on December 6th 2007 by Floss the Tethers
Re: Toyota school of music
Mac, that sounds very...um...sustainable.
# Posted on December 6th 2007 by Batlady
Re: Toyota school of music
Sorry for the ad... here it is playing
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071206/ap_on_hi_te/japan_toyota_robots_7
# Posted on December 6th 2007 by leoj
Re: Toyota school of music
you know, after watching the video, one could even say that the tune the robot played was even somewhat musical...I expected a midi type of sound, but the programmers varied teh bow speed, but some phrasing into the playing..all in all a great view of what simple bow speed can do.
# Posted on December 7th 2007 by Sunnybear
Re: Toyota school of music
They even got it doing a little bit of vibrato. I'm not sure whether that was being done mechanically - the streaming video was starting to break up in places - but I'd have thought that would be an interesting engineering problem. However, perhaps it could be done more easily by software applied directly to the sound (I understand Autotune has a vibrato function, for example).
Now I'd like to see a robot string quartet convincingly playing Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - that would show that they have indeed "arrived".
# Posted on December 7th 2007 by lazyhound
Re: Toyota school of music
The music sounded fine, but I couldn't understand a word it said.
# Posted on December 7th 2007 by oldstrings
Re: Toyota school of music
They wouldn't get into my session, that's for sure. I've heard they're really tight when it comes to buying rounds of drinks. And they're SO arrogant. Just cos they don't suffer from nerves.
A good kick in the diodes, that's what they'd get from me. Then you get accused of cruelty to androids, and that you're a life-ist pig.
# Posted on December 7th 2007 by Key Maniac Lad
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Yer damn straight. Machinst scum. Feh. Life for the living. Up Ned Ludd.
# Posted on December 7th 2007 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: Toyota school of music
Send them back, I say. Back to the conveyor belt.
# Posted on December 7th 2007 by Key Maniac Lad
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Here's the fiddling robot on video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=qyPAIpXm-nU
# Posted on December 7th 2007 by camwebby
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Playing "Land of Hope and Glory"? A butcher's apron tune, that one. It wouldn't get through the door of the Blythe. Gehh...
# Posted on December 7th 2007 by Key Maniac Lad
Re: Toyota school of music
I don't fancy yours, Danny
# Posted on December 7th 2007 by maxF
Re: Toyota school of music
but it comes with real hair......
# Posted on December 7th 2007 by Key Maniac Lad