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Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 03, 2015
Category: Music | Performance Art | Appliances | 1930s

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANaL80AsKVM

Posted by S. Norman on 03/03/15 at 08:29 AM

Hungry Invents the Typewriter!

Why was UK sucking up to Hungry in '37?

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 03/03/15 at 10:51 AM

A different perspective on typewriter music: the selectric piano that my friends' art-rock band invented.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDVKxkiMZTo

Posted by Matt on 03/03/15 at 12:07 PM

Hey, S., that's what crossed my mind when I saw this Pathe clip. Ernie Kovacs wrote a skit for his television program where office furniture and fixtures were choreographed to a soundtrack. This was in the early to mid 1950's.

Matt - The idea of hooking an IBM Selectric to a piano is inspired.

Posted by KDP on 03/03/15 at 02:28 PM

Hmm ... maybe I could use Hungarian ladies to write my comments instead of monkeys. Are they willing to work for peanuts?

Posted by Cougar Allen on 03/06/15 at 09:54 PM

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