Uncle Weird's Fun House

Uncle Weird's Fun House

Recorded at C.E.R.L. Music Reasearch Lab, University of Illinois, 1986.

copyright (c)2010
William Schaeffer

There was a piano-like keyboard on the PLATO music system, but instrument-sounds were assigned in a "round robin manner" and they were NOT mapped to specific keys.

This was very bizarre for a keyboard player, each time a new key was pressed, the next available sound in the instrument file was assigned to the key. The result was that before you pressed a new piano key, you had no idea WHAT instrument sound would be played.

Uncle Wierd's Fun House is one of the few PLATO Music songs I played on that old keyboard. The unpredictablitiy adds beautifully to this music.

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