Subject: Re: Talking piano: Sparky debate on the auditory list From: Bob Carlyon <bob.carlyon@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:22:05 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------050600030604080408040209 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 England Tel: +44 1223 355294 Fax: +44 1223 359062 www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/hearing --------------050600030604080408040209 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> You can't fool me with all your clever talk. There's a little <i>man</i> inside that piano, I tell you.<br> <br> <br> James W. Beauchamp wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:20091010171951.BF78B25EB@xxxxxxxx" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">From: Bob Carlyon <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bob.carlyon@xxxxxxxx"><bob.carlyon@xxxxxxxx></a> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:11:37 +0100 Organization: Medical Research Council To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx">AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx</a> Subject: [AUDITORY] Talking piano: Sparky debate on the auditory list Comments: To: Markus Noisternig <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Markus.Noisternig@xxxxxxxx"><Markus.Noisternig@xxxxxxxx></a> Is it just me who was reminded of Sparky's Magic Piano? Check out <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3etiNLAFi0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3etiNLAFi0</a> 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.... </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""><!----> PSS I was but I missed it somehow. These cuts are followed by: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYGmerbDs-w">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYGmerbDs-w</a> (part 2) <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OmTgHf0Z8o">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OmTgHf0Z8o</a> (part 3) </pre> </blockquote> <br> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Dr. Bob Carlyon MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit 15 Chaucer Rd Cambridge CB2 7EF England Tel: +44 1223 355294 Fax: +44 1223 359062 <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/hearing">www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/hearing</a> </pre> </body> </html> --------------050600030604080408040209--