Subject: Re: Talking piano: Sparky debate on the auditory list From: "James W. Beauchamp" <jwbeauch@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:34:12 -0500 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Bob is right, sort of. Apparently the piano sound is fed to loudspeakers on a speaker's throat, and he manipulates the sound with his vocal tract. The device was called a Sonovox, and it was used in a lot of movies and recordings. Sparky's Magic Piano was recorded in 1947. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparky%27s_Magic_Piano http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_box Thanks to Matthew McCabe for pointing this out. Still, it *was* analog filters. Jim Bob Carlyon wrote: >From: Bob Carlyon <bob.carlyon@xxxxxxxx> >Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:22:05 +0100 >Organization: Medical Research Council >To: "James W. Beauchamp" <jwbeauch@xxxxxxxx> >Subject: Re: Talking piano: Sparky debate on the auditory list >CC: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx > >You can't fool me with all your clever talk. There's a little /man/ >inside that piano, I tell you. > >James W. Beauchamp wrote: >> I have to say that Sparky's talking piano voice is a lot more >> intelligible than the other examples given. Sparky's piano >> evidentally used some kind of (analog) vocoder method. It's just >> an example of subtractive synthesis winning out over additive >> synthesis, especially when the atoms are not sine waves. >> >> Jim Beauchamp >> Univ. of Illinois >> >> Bob Carlyon wrote: >> >>> From: Bob Carlyon <bob.carlyon@xxxxxxxx> >>> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:11:37 +0100 >>> Organization: Medical Research Council >>> To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx >>> Subject: [AUDITORY] Talking piano: Sparky debate on the auditory list >>> Comments: To: Markus Noisternig <Markus.Noisternig@xxxxxxxx> >>> >>> Is it just me who was reminded of Sparky's Magic Piano? >>> >>> Check out >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3etiNLAFi0 >>> and start the video after about 3 mins 15 seconds.... >>> >>> bob >>> >>> PS. Before anyone asks, no I was /not/ around in the 1940s when this >>> came out first.... >>> >> >> PSS >> >> I was but I missed it somehow. >> >> These cuts are followed by: >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYGmerbDs-w (part 2) >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OmTgHf0Z8o (part 3) >> > >-- >Dr. Bob Carlyon >MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit >15 Chaucer Rd >Cambridge CB2 7EF