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the borsalino soundtrack specifically. i adore this soundtrack (and not just the title theme), this mix of like saloon bar mechanical piano with french period shit (you'll have to forgive me, i don't have the reference points)

so, what else is like this?
what are the reference points?

― gareth, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

anyone?

― gareth, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Could it have been a dream?

― K-reg, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

seven months pass...

has nobody seen borsalino?

― gareth, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

i think it was a dream, thinking about it

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 2 December 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

eight months pass...

borsalino mp3

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 10:35 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

dont all talk at once

― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 6 December 2003 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

We're just taking our time, sir.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 6 December 2003 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

It's kind of beautiful if you imagine the seasons going by in high-speed why Gareth sits in expectation at his computer, checking daily.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 6 December 2003 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

eight months pass...

now that summer has passed, perhaps, we could turn our attention, once again, to this matter

― david acid (gareth), Sunday, 29 August 2004 22:37 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

now that summer is here again, perhaps, we could turn our attention, once again, to this matter

― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 12 March 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

now that summer is here again, perhaps, we could turn our attention, once again, to this matter

http://snow-day.blogspot.com/2006/03/this-months-thrift-store-vinyl-sharity.html

and, indeed, here is a copy of it

― terry lennox. (gareth), Monday, 19 June 2006 10:07 (eighteen years ago)

six months pass...

now that another new year is here, perhaps, we could turn our attention, once again, to this matter

― Storefront Church (688), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

i don't know what y'allz is talking about, but you should check out Colin Nancarrow. one of the early american experimentalists, all of his compositions were for player piano, and they are totally fucking bonkers. and sort of beautiful.

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Monday, 8 January 2007 23:55 (eighteen years ago)

i am teaching myself to play the can-can if that helps gareth (check back in a year)

(ps it's conlon nancarrow not colin)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

eight months pass...

i thought about this, again, perhaps you did too

― Filey Camp, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 10:43 (seventeen years ago)

The saddest thread ever.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 10:59 (seventeen years ago)

Believe it or not: player pianos are not what they seem. There is actually a little man inside hammering away at the strings. I learned this in 1983 on a field trip to a museum located on the eastern seaboard of the U.S. My friend, who was something of a "bad-ass" at the time, loitered behind our tour group, and did a little firsthand investigation. The tiny man inside apparently had a wicked rye whiskey habit, as well as a substantial collection of cartoon pr0n flipbooks.

There was also a mechanical harpsichord in the same museum, but we, or my badass friend, rather, didn't have a chance to investigate the down'n'dirty truths behind that apparatus. Suffice it to say, that, said museum still exists, and I have every intention of seeking out that tiny plucker at some point.

― dell, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 11:04 (seventeen years ago)

Maybe he's a relative of the 12 inch pianist?

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 11:10 (seventeen years ago)

I'm just saying-- there's only one man, for 88 strings to be hammering down! Mad respect! It's like playing 5 dozen "Whack-a-Mole" games at one time!

― dell, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 11:18 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

88 is a lot

― cherry blossom, Thursday, 9 July 2009 07:25 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

now that summer is here again, perhaps, we could turn our attention, once again, to this matter

― PappaWheelie V, Monday, 12 July 2010 12:47 (fourteen years ago)

five years pass...

now that five years have passed, perhaps, we could turn our attention, once again, to this matter

― scarlett bohansson (unregistered), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 03:14 (nine years ago)

The saddest thread ever.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 13:56 (nine years ago)

http://www.amazon.com/Collection-Rare-Musical-Devices-Century/dp/B005FD2GHW

No discogs entry!

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 14:50 (nine years ago)

right okay so this thread is like a history of display name changes i hadn't previously known about.

― canoon fooder (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 15:01 (nine years ago)

Not sure how relevant this is but this is a great scene from the film 'Calvaire'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1owrlQlLExY

― canoon fooder (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 15:02 (nine years ago)

Aus Segfried's album has a spooky mechanical rendition of ave maria.

My favorite tacked piano record features Meade Lux Lewis playing in a boppish mode

― bamcquern, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 15:04 (nine years ago)

The only reason why Scott Seward didnt post about those Gay 90s Village records all these years was for fear of ruining this thread's conceptual purity

http://www.discogs.com/artist/1505038-Paul-Eakins

'I Lift Up My Finger and I Say, 'Tweet Tweet'" did not disappoint: http://www.discogs.com/Paul-Eakins-More-From-The-Gay-90s-Village/release/3072494

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 15:12 (nine years ago)

ha! i do in fact have a huge collection of the gay 90's records. and other mechanical device records. and music box records. it's all wonderful.

― scott seward, Sunday, 13 December 2015 13:57 (nine years ago)

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