Post AxXQ5vev04LLr9b4tM by RangerRick@redwombat.social
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 (DIR) Post #AxXPU3BeYxnGCRqYIC by foone@digipres.club
       2025-08-25T19:27:16Z
       
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       bad idea: full length isa card with strings and solenoids.the strings are pulled taught, and the solenoids pluck the strings. real music inside your IBM PC 5150
       
 (DIR) Post #AxXPxa0zaWDKPbwONk by johnefrancis@cosocial.ca
       2025-08-25T19:32:31Z
       
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       @foone it would need some sort of cast iron frame, like a piano.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxXQ1isiZ3If4N2ufI by olsner@social.vivaldi.net
       2025-08-25T19:32:39Z
       
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       @foone finally we could have PIO as in Plucked I/O.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxXQ5vev04LLr9b4tM by RangerRick@redwombat.social
       2025-08-25T19:33:40Z
       
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       @foone cursed, it's ONLY used when the "harp" general midi instrument is played, in all other ways it's just a normal SoundBlaster card
       
 (DIR) Post #AxXQdvvSVy6wWtY3Ky by SonnyBonds@mastodon.gamedev.place
       2025-08-25T19:40:14Z
       
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       @foone Where's the bad part?
       
 (DIR) Post #AxXRc2U1GNgEF4NGVM by steckschwein_6502@mastodon.social
       2025-08-25T19:51:06Z
       
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       @foone or organ type pipes and a blower and solenoids controlling airflow
       
 (DIR) Post #AxXU3M6gbvdUpZc6gS by IrrationalMethod@social.coop
       2025-08-25T20:17:53Z
       
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       @foone PS/2-iano.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxXVWZOGOynYNgKUgy by etchedpixels@mastodon.social
       2025-08-25T20:34:44Z
       
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       @foone And a valve amplifier on a second card ?
       
 (DIR) Post #AxYIQIccjFzGOJgaw4 by jarkman@chaos.social
       2025-08-26T05:42:45Z
       
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       @foone Excellent plan. You could also look at clock gongs for the lower frequencies.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxYdiviiCQvTtzG6a0 by WellsiteGeo@masto.ai
       2025-08-26T09:41:24Z
       
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       @foone So far, nobody has considered the problems of adequately reproducing Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture, scored for a battery of cannons.OTOH, "letting the smoke out" is something semiconductor users are quite good at.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxYnG9VgqgrboZ5IPY by jered@metasocial.com
       2025-08-26T11:28:16Z
       
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       @foone needs tiny servos, too, so it can be tuned without opening the case. Then you can write self-tuning software by adding a mic to the PC.