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From: mark@apple.UUCP (Mark Lentczner)
Newsgroups: net.music.synth
Subject: Re: Laurie Anderson
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Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 13:45:24 EST
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Yes, I saw Laurie Anderson on Friday and the new violin is definitly
not the old tape violin.  I didn't see it do anything that indicated
that it was MIDI at all, my guess is normal (or close to normal) strings
each with it's own pickup and pitch extractor.  This based on the
observations that: a) the sound lasted slightly longer than the bowing
on hard bowing, hence string still vibrating, b) the resultant sound
had that pitch extractor type warble to it and what sounded like a
pluse train (from the string itself?) added to it c) different sounds
were on different strings.

actually, I missed the tape violin, since it did much more than this
new instrument does (perhaps she just got it - still working with it).

-mark