The Shining and Player Piano

Shining and player piano shining are horror novels written by Stephen King in 1977, player piano is a science fiction novel created by Kurt Von Negut in 1952. It is a fictitious thing after the Third World War. These books are two completely different kinds, horror and SF, but there are some similarities. They have some minor similarities in the configuration, but the difference between time and location is obvious.

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.

Its original shape is a pianola, and in 1897 an American engineer E. S got a patent. For your information, the player's piano is a cabinet called "piano player" placed in front of a normal piano, with wooden "fingers" protruding from the keyboard. In the cabinet, the paper roll passes through the tracking bar. The tracking bar escapes air through the pneumatic device. After that, the mechanism of this cabinet was incorporated into the body of the piano. Lever and pedals in front of cabinets and speakers control rhythm, volume, other dynamics and accent. The pump foot pedal for activating the pneumatic system is under the piano.