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Reiner Torheit
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« on: 08:39:22, 05-03-2008 »
Part digital sampler, part lightshow, and part Buzz Lightyear... meet the Tenorion.  I am sure we can look forward to these replacing laptops in the "I'm talentless personally but can afford pricey gadgets" kind of concert.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/this-gadget-rocks-the-worlds-newest-musical-instrument-791234.html

Those eager to buy something "owned by Bjork and Peter Gabriel" will be saddened to discover on the instrument's official site that it's being test-marketed in the UK only... where demand has been "so great" that there are no instruments available, although you can - ehem - buy the t-shirt (I jest not).


"Have you guessed what it is yet?"

Musical Instrument Museums around the world are eagerly finding space next to the flageolet and the sarrussophone.
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« Reply #1 on: 09:42:18, 05-03-2008 »
Yes... I've had a look at those. They're pretty useless unless you're interested in making music which has a constant metronomic pulse, which of course thousands of people are. Describing it as an "instrument" is a bit rich, especially in the same breath as saying it's so easy to "play" (ie. to enter sounds into an ongoing repeating sequence) - anything whose technique can be perfected in a few hours can hardly be called an instrument in my book, and I speak as a talentless person who has appeared on stage numerous times with a laptop.
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« Reply #2 on: 10:00:59, 05-03-2008 »
Quote from: richard barrett on 09:42:18, 05-03-2008
a talentless person who has appeared on stage numerous times with a laptop.

Come to think of it, so have I Wink
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« Reply #3 on: 12:10:53, 05-03-2008 »
Following a link in the Indy, here is some stuff on YouTube in which two Japanese girls "play" the Tenorion.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=thetenorions

Anyone who remembers the "l/h chord" settings of the Casio Keyboard will recognise this kind of "performance".
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« Reply #4 on: 12:32:25, 05-03-2008 »
Quote from: Reiner Torheit on 12:10:53, 05-03-2008
Following a link in the Indy, here is some stuff on YouTube in which two Japanese girls "play" the Tenorion.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=thetenorions

Anyone who remembers the "l/h chord" settings of the Casio Keyboard will recognise this kind of "performance".

Ah, but think what someone like John White might do with them, (the 'instruments', not the girls). Wink
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« Reply #5 on: 19:45:30, 24-03-2008 »
John White??

I do indeed have a circa.1980 Casio keyboard, don't know about l/h chord settings though. I do know a Japanese girl, well I did, she was actually a senior manager, she's long gone out of my life now.

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« Reply #6 on: 02:53:05, 25-03-2008 »
Quote from: John W on 19:45:30, 24-03-2008
John White??

I do indeed have a circa.1980 Casio keyboard, don't know about l/h chord settings though. I do know a Japanese girl, well I did, she was actually a senior manager, she's long gone out of my life now.

John Wright

Yes, where do they go, those people who were once the axis of our thoughts and hopes, and then disappear?  There's a whole population of them somewhere,  probably on some invisible moon or asteroid,  looking down at us and the mayhem and memories they left in their wake when they upped and left?   Perhaps on their asteroid they are playing a celestial cacophony of stylophones and tenorions??   I hope so, as it would bloody serve them right Wink  Elliptical billard-balls to the lot of them  Cry
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