<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: Piano Fun revision</title></head><body> <div><font color="#474648"><b>For those interested in such things: http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/machines/futurist/</b></font></div> <div><font color="#474648"><b>and a quote I really like:</b></font></div> <div><font color="#474648"><b><br></b></font></div> <div><font color="#000000"> Also, the identification of the composer with the instrument builder and performer had also been unheard of since the Middle Ages, but has become a prominent feature of experimental music since the nineteen fifties.</font><br> </div> <div><font color="#474648"><b>from http://cadre.sjsu.edu/switch/sound/articles/wendt/folder6/ng632.htm</b ></font></div> <div><font color="#474648"><b><br></b></font></div> <div><font color="#474648"><b><br></b></font></div> <div><font color="#474648"><b>"Rumorarmonio" (1922)</b><br> <br> <br> Russolo seated in front of two "Rumorarmonio"<br> <br>  <br> Later versions of the Noise machines developed by Russolo in Paris included "Rumorarmonio" or "Noise Harmonium" or the "Russolo-Phone" which combined several noise machines with a rudimentary keyboard. This was presented to the Parisian public in 1929 by Varèse who planned to put the instruments in to mass production. Unfortunately the plans came to nothing and Russolo somewhat discouraged turned more and more to his painting and philosophy.<br> <br>  <br> <b>'The Enharmonic Piano'</b></font><br> <font color="#474648"><b></b></font></div> <div><font color="#474648">The Enharmonic Piano was Russolo's last experimental instrument built during his time in Paris. The instrument consisted of a series of piano strings that were tuned to sympathetically vibrate when played.</font></div> </body> </html>