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more about #sheetmusic UniComp: PBS had a commercial years ago where birds on wires inspired a musician. This is a rip off I say! more » albokay: birds are now more talented than most rappers. more » mykalt45: Major fail. If birds were really composing, they'd show a bass or treble cliff and the timing like 4/4 or 3/4 and tell us the beats per minute. Until ... more » bnetter12: Very interesting. more » quantumbits: Heh. This put a smile on my face. Thanks. more » Andrew Champion: The same concept has been used in a minute-long interude on PBS stations for years. more » Sneaky Walrus: Wonderfully cute idea, though, it's no phenomenon, there's no space for the birds to be a low F, A, C, or high E, and sharps and flats aren't existent... more » Slippy: Nooooooo!: "You see, this here song is in the key of Pigeon Minor" more » Sean Scrooby Grube: I wonder what the melody sounds like if you convert the blood drops from OJ's murders. more » Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected: Not all the music is beautiful. more » philibuster: This would be good if you're at an opera and you have a libretto or score for an orchestra. Otherwise, pretty much useless, as others have noted. more » syedagmalali: Probably not the best sheet music reader out there, but an excellent feature for the Kindle to have. So you're saying that those wall-to-wall law tex... more » frigg: As a musician, this is GREAT!!! Sheet music is increasingly hard to get. If the library is legitimate, this would get me running, not walking, to t... more » bosskev: CAUTION! Do Not Read Further Unless You Like to Groan at Stupendously Bad Puns.•••YOU'VE BEEN WARNED••• My instrumental talents are so ba... more » TalKeaton: Every Puzzle Has an Answer!: I think the ideal way to do this would be if the Kindle had a microphone and could tell when you reached the end of the page, then turning it. Which w... more » Hiphopopotamus: This needs some sort of auto-scrolling to it... but I would definitely be into this if they sold some guitar tabs in this format. more » OMG! Ponies!: But I love my hardbound law textbooks. They render any bookcase completely immovable with their weight. Not only that, they are an excellent (albeit ... more » Margatron: This is only good if your sheet music is one sheet long. But as any other classical musicians know, sheet music is in sheets so you can tape five of ... more » 32ndnote: Being a pianist/violinist, I can actually see how this is a decent idea. I don't like that you can only see one page at a time, but hitting a button i... more » waaronw: Rig up a foot switch (or other) for changing the pages and I could see some musicians jumping on this. more » -
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This Clip is Proof That Birds Are Secretly Composers
A normal person sees these birds perched on electrical wires and worries about getting crapped on. Jarbas Agnel looks at them and sees musical notes. Maybe he's smarter than the rest of us because the melody is utterly oh-so-sweet-that-I-could-doze-off-right-now. More » -
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Sheet Music for Amazon Kindle DX Gets Rid of the, Um, Sheet
Good idea or terrible idea? Sheet music on the Kindle. The catalog has 20,000 titles and they're cheap, about $3. Or you can always read a bunch of law textbooks. Fun! [Amazon via Gadget Lab] More »
