Ghost Piano

[Graziana Getz]

Iam a carpenter in Vermont, US and was recently hired to do some work on a large, 200 year-old house in downtown Montpelier. The client had just bought the house and wanted to do some sprucing up before moving their family in. I was thrilled to find 90 percent of the original woodwork in great shape and even found some pressed leather wainscoting in pristine condition. Even more exciting was the antique upright piano that they had already moved in (not original to the house). I had been wanting to sample a piano for months after finding out about this community and this was the perfect opportunity. I got permission to stay after work the following day and do the recording in an otherwise empty house. Being downtown (albeit a town of 7,000 people) the recording took over an hour as many takes were thwarted by passing cars or barking dogs or screaming children.

With just a touch of reverb, this ghost comes to life! I am a junkie for aged slightly out of tune pianos, and this one hits the mark for me. There are some noises with some samples, but you can adjust the sound a bit with the knobs/GUI. Personally I don't mind the imperfections, they bring character and life to this piano. Composing soft and slow songs with this piano is so inspiring!

Intimate, ghosty, vibey, there is something special in this library. Lets go and find it! I think interface is really good for quick and great results , not many options but all make sense. Tape loop is the best for me. This sound will definitely end up on my new album :

This is a wonderful little character piano. Simply built and lightweight, and useable for an at-home piano that hasn't been tuned or maintained, possibly gives off the feeling of being recorded on at-home equipment due to the high levels of noise. I don't mind the noise, I welcome it.

There's something satisfying about the noisy sustain just going Poof! And disappearing at the end of a long chord, and this piano scratches that itch - even if I have to supplement it to get there. Thanks Andrew! :)

The actual sound of this piano is really great. It has that old fashioned chorus type sound thats really pleasing and wistful. The transient hits of the keys also sound great, sharp and defined without being bright or clicky. As others have said this is insanely noisy though. Sometimes i like a bit of noise in my instruments but this one is just too much. Not to mention once mixing and mastering is done to any track with this in it its only going to make the noise louder and brighter. I would absolutely love to hear this noise reduced and maybe more deeply sampled too

I simply love this kind of sound signature when it comes to pianos. The slightly sharp attack combined with the darker tone feels very appealing to me, and indeed it matches the "ghostly" aesthetic, especially if you pump up the reverb.

With that said, it would greatly benefit from some noise reduction, especially in the left channel, because at times the white noise creates an unbalanced signal that might not even fit a lo-fi type of production. The release trigger samples also have some noise in them, but these are fully controllable so you don't have to deal with that anyway. I'd love to see an update!

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The Piano Ghost haunts a piano of the old school and curses people through the song Fr Elise, stating that they will die if they hear the song four times. He can accomplish this by making his victims hear his song through various objects, even ones that could not normally play the song. The ghost can also imitate other people's voices. Momoko, being possessed by Kayako, sealed him inside a metronome.

I created a soft synth track. I plotted all the notes using piano roll. Then I created another soft synth track but the notes from the first track appear in the piano roll for the 2nd track in a dimmed sort of ghost guise. What's more, if I accidentally select a ghost note and delete it, it is deleted from the first track. Any ideas how to stop this happening?

This happens when you've got more than one track showing in the PRV. Notes that aren't on the active track are greyed out to stop accidental editing, but there so you can line your current edits up with notes on other tracks.

You can choose / see which tracks are being shown/editing by looking at the PRV Track Pane:

All my life I sighed, after the piano I left behind, when we had to change our residence. At the age of 60, I gave myself a present: a Casio piano PX160. I was very happy when I bought it. Exactly one month after the warranty expired, it broke. From the official Service they told me that it is an old model and they can no longer find parts. When I bought it, the sellers told me it was the last model. Who should I believe?

A note sings by itself, without touching the key. After singing alone, the key becomes non-functional (it no longer makes any sound). The service changed the 3 boards with contacts under the keys. It cost me a quarter of the piano`s price. It lasted half a year and broke down again: the same symptom. And after another month, the key didn't work at all. That note is dead.

After this operation, the keyboard worked perfectly for a while without problems (so I didn't destroy the carbon film), until the note was heard again without pressing the key, after which the key became useless (it didn't make any sound). I closed the piano, turned it on again, it started working without problems and after a few hours the defect occurred again.

This happened before taking the piano to Casio service. At the service they replaced the 3 boards with contacts under the keys. It ran for a few months without problems, after which the defect reappeared and a few months later that note died completely. Only now I can think that the contact is no longer made under the flap. These days I am busy with other things, but next week I want to open the piano again.

Another specialist consulted by phone told me that there is no way it could be from the main processor. If it were from the processor, all E notes from all 7 ranges should have the same problems. That may be so?

I am sure that at some time the defect will appear again. He did so many times. Every time I turn it off, it somehow resets and after I turn it on again, it works ok until the ghost appears. Sometimes after two hours, sometimes after two weeks. But it appears.

OK, disconnecting and reconnecting could also be from false soldering (not only from broken traces); which means that I should redo all the solders. This will only happen after I remove the motherboard.

I still have a problem: from the point of view of reliability, the first parts of an electronic assembly to be destroyed are in order: the capacitors, the fuses, then the semiconductors (including integrated circuits), then the resistors... the cables are in last place. Am I so unlucky that a cable breaks right at me? These days I'm opening it and I'll see... after I finish what I started last week... I haven't finished the work yet and I don't like to tackle several things at once.

I moved on to the next step: I started measuring voltages on the keys contacts; at those two keys with problems, in direct current, the voltage was lower. I also measured in alternating current: the white key (tone) had lower voltage; the black key (semitone) had an almost ok voltage, a little lower (10%).

Next, I measured in direct current to the ground: on the keys with the problem the voltage was lower, but at the same time it was also lower on the other two keys, between the two with the problem. So I had 4 keys with lower voltage.

Next, I saw in an older diagram of an PX130 (I couldn't find a service book for my, PX160), that on the motherboard, where the keyboard contacts enters, there are some capacitors and resistors, placed in a matrix. I started measuring the voltages on the capacitors there: In continuous voltages: almost all capacitors had the same voltage at the terminals, except for two. I imagined that I had found the defect and in that moment I checked the keyboard: the two keys with problems were working!!!!

Abraham Hoffman of Reseda writes that the house was built in 1910 by Rollin Lane, a Redlands financier and orange grower, and that Lane and his wife were very staunch and benevolent Hollywood citizens; but he implies that they did not have seven daughters.

Art Dowling of Manhattan Beach suggests that Irma is either a computer that has instant access to hundreds of tapes or, more likely, a person in another room who plays a piano wired to the one in the public chamber.

I received a call from Steve Meringoff in New York, co-owner of both the old Broadway Building, on the southwest corner, and the Taft Building, on the southeast corner, inviting me to visit his Hollywood offices and find out what is happening.

Once I got inside the Taft Building I saw that it was undergoing a thorough restoration. The white marble lobby gleamed. The old chandeliers were back. The false ceiling in the vestibule had been removed to reveal the original Renaissance coffered ceiling. On the upper floors, the walls were pristine white and the old marble panels had been cleared of their yellow stain.

M & S is on the eighth floor. Rob Langer, vice president for commercial leasing, and January Garabedian, vice president, operations, were expecting me. They were both young, attractive, enthusiastic. Bill Welsh, the dedicated president of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, was visiting.

Langer and Garabedian assured me that the Taft Building, now known as the Hollywood Taft Building, was 70% leased, and the old Broadway Building across the street, renamed the Hollywood and Vine Plaza, was 100% leased, or just about.

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