Subject: Re: Talking piano From: Tony Miller <antonio.miller@xxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 17:56:54 -0400 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Pierre- The demo is real. The Wein Modern is Venice's contemporary music festival. 3sat is German public television. Peter Ablinger, who created the MIDI controlled mechanical device that strikes the piano keys, is a well known Austrian contemporary music composer. -Tony On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Pierre Divenyi <pdivenyi@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Ani, > > Being both a pianist and a speech guy, I must express my doubts in the > acoustic veracity of the demonstration. There seem to have been sounds that > were speech-like but which I have never heard a piano utter. Sorry -- I need > more than this video to believe. > > -Pierre