Saturday, September 28, 2024

Typing Piano



We've seen typewriters used as musical instruments a few times, and while it's cool, it's not all that melodic. But now it is.  Brazilian pianist Fabricio André Bernard Di Paolo, or Lord Vinheteiro, is not only a talented musician, he has a deep knowledge of every every note on every piano key. He attached strings to his piano so that he could play it by typing on two typewriters! Now the piano is a stringed instrument. Sure, he did the attaching, but keeping track of which key goes with which note takes a lot of cognitive bandwidth. Not only that, but he is playing the melody with his left hand, and the bass rhythm with his right, because he has his back to the piano. That's somewhat akin to playing the piano from its backside, but harder because it's two typewriters.


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

That’s pretty tricky as the typewriter keys don’t move as far and the piano keys must.
Bottom line, it’s like watching Olympic athletes, just another person doing the impossible.
xoxoxoBruce

Anonymous said...

The piano was in a painful need of tuning. If a person's going to go to all the trouble of hooking up typewriters to one, he might as well tune it first, I would think. But maybe I'm just picky.