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From: tmm@sdd.hp.com (Tim McDonough)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Info Wanted on Typewriter music
Message-ID: <1991Feb07.165832.2912@sdd.hp.com>
Date: 7 Feb 91 16:58:32 GMT
References: <16530@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
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In article <16530@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> eaker@sunbelt.crd.ge.com (Charles E Eaker) writes:
>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.

Wasn't there a piece named "The Typewriter" By Leroy Anderson?!?

                            -Tim
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