Giant Steps (as played by a robot)

[Mike Shefrin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjONQNUU8Fg

[Joe Casey]

OH boy wait until they set up a steel on it.

[Mike Shefrin]

It's of course mechanically possible to build a robot programmed to play a pedal steel guitar with pedals, knee levers,and even a sliding bar, etc.The feeling, sensitivity and emotions of steel playing by a human could not be duplicated by a machine no matter how refined the apparatus was.It still would be hilarious to see such a contraption.<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Mike Shefrin on 10 September 2006 at 09:04 PM.]</p></FONT>

[Les Anderson]

I jam with fellow who plays about as mechanical as that. He plays an acceptable tabbed piece; however, as soon as you take his tab book away from him, he is totally lost.

Maybe a steel guitar could be played by a mechanical devise but, a steel guitar is nothing without that human emotion in control of the picks and the bar.

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<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Les Anderson on 11 September 2006 at 09:55 AM.]</p></FONT>

[Stephan Miller]

http://www.michalevy.com/gs_download.html

Click on "Giant Steps", then "Watch Movie". On-screen count-up ends at 98.

[Mike Shefrin]

Awesome!

[Ray Minich]

Too mechanical, highly automated, sterile, and rigid. Kinda like a player piano, no "feeling"...
Neat robot though... maybe it could be taught to deal cards....

[Richard Sevigny]

I could listen to the robot, but it was too strange to watch.

Without a groove behind it, it does sound pretty sterile, and without accompaniment you don't get a real feel for the tonal centre.

Compared to the animated version, the robot just sounds flat.