From: detritus@ix.netcom.com   
      
   Phil Allison wrote:   
      
   > "Lord Valve"   
   > > Patrick Turner wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> nobody had anything electrical,   
   > >> ( except for a few rich bastards in the royal court in Vienna   
   > >> where Mozart recorded his music.   
   > >   
   > > To my knowledge, Mozart never recorded jack shit - there was nothing to   
   > > do it with in the late 1700s. If you mean by "recording" that he wrote it   
   > > out   
   > > on staff paper with a pen, sure.   
   >   
   > ** Mozart pre-dated even the player piano by about 100 years.   
   >   
   > That said, his phenomenal popularity suggests that had iPods been available   
   > in 1780, young Wolfgang " tinkling the ivories" would been top of the pops   
   > with all the damsels of the day.   
   >   
   > Just like " boy bands "  are now ...   
   >   
   > ....  Phil   
      
   ....   
      
   They did, however, have "music box"-like instruments   
   of several varieties, including plucked strings, tines,   
   and even organs...but they were driven by metal drums   
   with projections on them, and the music had to be   
   hardware programmed by the dudes who built them.   
   Not at all a recording, but a type of primitive mechanical   
   reproduction.   
      
   As far as damsels went, young Wolfgang was reputed   
   to have been quite successful. Quite.  ;-)   
      
   Lord Valve   
   Musician   
      
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