Dehumanization in Player Piano

Recent trends, ideas and techniques have helped to promote social mechanization. There is an ATM to replace the window of the bank, and the robot works at almost all the automobile company's assembly line. And computers are increasingly being incorporated into our daily lives. People slowly, but definitely, replace my machine and artificial "workers". Kurt Vonnegut foresaw the mechanized movement of the 1950 's and responded to social inhumanization by his novel "Piano".

My grandfather stared at a place I could not go anywhere. "Do not forget that you are just a piano player in a small room You can not listen to all the music except your voice so grinding hell and all the other pianos, Please sell it to firewood.

The performer's piano is neither an electric piano, an electric piano nor a digital piano. The difference between these instruments is how to make sound. The performer's piano is an acoustic piano, and it plays a sound by hitting the piano string. Electrical or electronic components are limited to movement of keys or hammers imitating the movement of a person, and electrically amplified audio has no sound.

Playing the piano is an improved piano of "self-playing". The keyboard of the piano moves according to the pattern punched by the unwinding reel. Unlike the music synthesizer, the instrument itself actually sounds, the keyboard moves up and down and plays the piano that hits the string. Like the opponent, you can also manually play the player's piano. When the scroll bar passes through the instrument, the movement of that key creates the illusion that invisible players are playing instruments. Vonnegut shows that even the simplest activities such as teaching how to play the piano in his spare time using the piano as a metaphor are replaced with machines rather than people. In the early days of this book, Ed Prominus, a member of Paul Proteus' s Future Ghost Shirt Association, was playing the piano by hand.

The most striking thing about the performer 's piano is that it works. It is not the first automatic instrument, but it is best known for a combination of mechanical automation and almost anywhere piano, bringing the prospect of 'music without music' to the cultural awareness of the early 20th century. Front line For this reason, the player's piano can be regarded as a sign of a paradigm shift in technology, and the rise of the personal computer and the accompanying digitization process realized the transition at the turn of the 21st century. This instrument is an essential symbol of advances in technology, its inhumane threats and efforts toward newly discovered power.