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From: harlan@bbn.com (Harlan Feinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: piano vibrato
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Date: 10 Dec 89 02:26:32 GMT
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In article <2746@optilink.UUCP> jones@optilink.UUCP (Marvin Jones) writes:
>Also, with the proliferation of sampling synthesizers these days, there are a 
>number of excellent piano sounds available for the better machines.  It should 
>be an easy matter to add vibrato to these sounds on a good programmable 
>synthesizer.  

What I'm seeking is not an answer to how to get a piano vibrato _sound_,
but rather a sincere answer to how to do this without electronics.  Someone
told me that it was possible.  Some of the replies were amusing,
but unfortunately I got no serious answer.

--Harlan
hfeinstein@wash-vax.bbn.com