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From: eaker@sunbelt.crd.ge.com (Charles E Eaker)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Info Wanted on Typewriter music
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Date: 7 Feb 91 14:59:15 GMT
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In article <7756@chorus.fr> mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski) writes:
>In article <1991Feb5.212609.4371@linus.mitre.org>, jeff@retina.mitre.org (Jeff Graber) writes:
>%% 
>%% I am looking for the name and composer of a piece of music
>%% that included a typewriter in it.  It was very popular in
>%% the late fifties, early sixties.  It may have been called
>%% the typewriter symphony or something.  If you know anything 
>%% about it please reply.
>
>Let me guess... Spike Jones? :-)

No, it wasn't Spike Jones. I can hear snatches of the piece including
the ringing of the bell at the end of the line. As I recall it was
written by a "semi-serious" American composer, but I can't remember
the name of the piece or its composer.

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