[Lord Valve]

Phil Allison wrote:

"Lord Valve"
Patrick Turner wrote:

nobody had anything electrical,
( except for a few rich *******s in the royal court in Vienna
where Mozart recorded his music.

To my knowledge, Mozart never recorded jack **** - 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