Tuesday, May 29, 2007

ugly pianos for sale on ebay

"Five incredibly vile pianos worth $1.2m"
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Sunday, May 27, 2007

Pianoteq – True piano modelling

A company called Pianoteq has made a breakthrough in digital pianos — true piano modeling. This piano does not rely on samples; instead, it is a computer simulation of a piano. This has two advantages. First, it demands much less computer power than a large sample set. More intriguingly, it allows the full range of piano effects that samples cannot, including: open strings vibrating sympathetically, "catching" chords with a late pedal, "ghost" notes with sostenuto, half-pedaling, detuning of unisons, changing hammer hardness, changing inharmonicity, and so on. To find out more, click below.
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Thursday, May 24, 2007

Piano falls in Battery Street Tunnel

Traffic through Seattle's Battery Street Tunnel was briefly blocked Wednesday afternoon by a piano...
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Saturday, May 19, 2007

Twilight Zone piano story

Thanks to San French, here is a link to a Twilight Zone episode about a strange player piano.
The link is
http://tv-links.co.uk/link.do/1/106/269/3669/6243
For some reason, it only works if you paste it in your browser window. I haven't been able to make it work as a regular link.

Saturday, May 05, 2007

How to Never Lose a Thing Again

This is one of the oldest organizing truisms around, but it is probably the most important of all: a place for everything, and everything in its place.Why is it so popular? Because it works. Read below to find out how to form this habit and never lose a thing again...
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