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More than once Voice has seen videos of elephants enjoying music. An elephant is a fairly intelligent creature. It occurred to him that an elephant or two could be trained to play a piano-like device, if it were large enough. Perhaps we could learn something of the elephant's mind, or even learn something
about the nature of music. Its keys would be designed to respond to large feet and/or trunks.
Yes. Bigger keys please.
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[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Mar 24 2019]
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What would the keys be made of? - his brothers and sisters? |
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No, of human teeth of course. |
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I think elephants would probably find a theremin a little
easier to manage. |
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They'd be good at pounding oil drums, so
percussion could be the way to go. (yes, I know the
piano is a percussion instrument too) |
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Big = slow. I'm thinking, instead of "foot-sized" keys (try
playing a piano with hands instead of fingers...), create a
keyboard that maps to the length of the trunk. An elephant's
trunk has thousands of muscles, and so huge degrees-of-
freedom. They would probably look at a human piano and go
"Pfft. Only 88 keys. Amateurs." |
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Might they not have a greater affinity with a brass instrument, such as a trumpet ? |
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If I were an elephant (which, contrary to superficial
appearances, is not the case), I'd probably prefer it if humans
would try playing infra-sound instruments. |
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Timpani is the drum they play when elephants are
walking by. Not sure who they are, but you know
what I mean. That might be cool. Hold the mallets
with
their trunks. Get a gong in there too. [+] |
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In a rare moment of practicality, use lamps projecting onto the ground, elephant foot/trunk occludes the light = a note, they will soon catch. Slightly better than using up the last of the unobtainium. |
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NB what role does the Mahout play, and what about the groupies? |
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How about a Jean Michel Jarre-style laser harp? |
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The Intercalary used to have an elephant, which he got as the result of a very ill-
advised bet. He was living in Pinner at the time, and had endless trouble with
the council over it. In the end, it turned out that there were no specific
regulations governing the keeping of elephants in Pinner per se, but Building
Regs caught him out on account of the floor loading and inadequate fire escapes.
So, he had to get rid of it (not an easy thing to do in Pinner). But while he had
it, it apparently sat or stepped on his Korg Arp Odyssey and on a Moog;
unfortunately both of these happened while he was out, so he didn't get to hear
the result. |
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He could just have moved to Elephant and
Castle? |
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Ahhh, Plegthorpe's Gambit ... he'll be in Nidd if he's not very careful ... |
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