[ExI] RES: RES: guitar playing robot

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>... On Behalf Of Henrique Moraes Machado

>>...  Can the listener tell when the player (the one on the
keyboard) is having the...um... maximum musical experience?  Can he (or
possibly even she) maintain the tempo?  Does the key signature change?  What
key is best for that?  What tempo?  What rhythm?  Now that I think about it,
the idea is so obvious it must have been done before, a long time ago.
Perhaps that is how we got jazz to start with:
someone was playing Bach or Beethoven and had an idea.
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>...Now THAT I would like to see. 

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Hmmm, I am not sure I would want to *see* it exactly.

I did some historical research and discovered that this technique has been
done over 200 years ago, and it resulted in a well-known piece (of music I
mean.)  Beethoven had been composing and left the studio at the end of the
day.  His teenage son by an estranged ex-wife asked to use the piano so he
and his girlfriend could do some experimental composition.  Permission
granted, but the next day Ludwig came in and discovered the underside of his
piano was besmirched.  He was irate at this outrage of course and pounded
out Beethoven's Fifth Symphony while in a burning fury at the teen
miscreants.  

A little known fact is that unlike his other works and other classical
pieces, Beethoven's Fifth has words!  If you google on it in YouTube for
instance, you can almost hear the words being sung by Beethoven as he sang
them in full-throated furious enthusiasm.  It is the same four words, over
and over, which explains the well-known theme:  
dant dant dant daaaaaaaaa...  dant dant dant daaaaaaaa... etc.  

The words are: Son of a biiiiiiiitch...  Son of a biiiiiiitch...

This is quite understandable of course; one could scarcely blame him for his
anger.  Image if you were a well-known composer and came in to find that
revolting stuff on the underside of your piano.

spike