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From: Alvin@cup.portal.com (Alvin Henry White)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: MIDI and ISDN
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Date: 8 Nov 90 03:01:44 GMT
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I have been trying to collect all necessary data to be able to play a duet
using the organ at the Morman Tabernacle and the organ at St. Peter's in
Rome. I don't know if there is one at St. Peter's.  I figure if both
instruments have intelligent controllers, midi or some artificial 
intelligence, or robotics stuff, I could dial in with my yamaha portable
keyboard from home, here in Silicon Valley, California, and by using local
feedback to keep me on time, and by having the proper delays to sync the
international circuits I should be able to get simultaneous output at my
recording studios in Hollywood.  
  Any help on technical suggestions or procedural application requirements
are welcome.  When I was on my was to the White House Conference on Libraries
and Information Services in Washington, D.C. in 1979, my Greyhound Ameripass
had a 1 hour layover in Salt Lake City. I found that the Organ was only a
block away from Greyhound, and although I was just minutes late for the
last tour of the day, some kind soul in the tourist shop personally took
me up to the Tabernacle to at least see the organ.  She also gave me a little
pamphlet that told the history of that organ and how it had been upgraded and
tuned up every so many years. Sooner or later, it would seem that synthesized
speech and computer control will be added. If it comes in my lifetime, and
St. Peter's does also I may be able to do it. 
  If anyone sees the pope, ask him if he would like to hear St. Peter's
Organ speak in tongues and talk on the telephone throughout the world
while it composes and accompanies itself with background music. I have been
thinking about trying to put together a project team to modernizes some of
the organs of the world. Any volunteers, financiers, technicians, etc.

Alvin H. White, Gen. Sect.
G.O.D.S.B.R.A.I.N.
Government Online Database Systems
Bureau for Resource Allocations to Information Networks
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