Video: Cacophonic typewriter doubles as piano

See, we knew those check writers in NYC had something brilliant in mind when dropping a cool million on typewriters this week! As the tale goes, they've contracted one Fabien Cappello to modify each and every one into a 'Typing The Sound' concept, which bangs away at letters whilst making all sorts of racket. Unfortunately, there aren't any how-to details to be found (nor any real proof that a pianist isn't behind this guy fooling us all... nor any truth to the aforesaid tale), but the video past the break is still worth a gander. Honest.

[Via MAKE]

Typing Sound from Long Tran on Vimeo.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 18th 2009 1:25AM]

Neat.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 18th 2009 1:27AM]

It's quite funny.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 18th 2009 1:27AM]

Why?

[HarZens Posted Jul 18th 2009 1:56AM]

I see an old man pretty happy with it...

so... why not? :)

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 18th 2009 1:28AM]

how long before someone performs "The Typewriter" on this thing?

[CJ Posted Jul 18th 2009 8:07AM]

How long before Phillip Glass creates an entire album using only typewriters?

They'll probably happen simultaneously.

[unfunk Posted Jul 18th 2009 10:50AM]

@CJ: Krzysztof Penderecki already used typewriters in Fluorescences For Orchestra... back in 1960. :)

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 18th 2009 1:31AM]

It's about time I see something like this

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 18th 2009 1:55AM]

old fashion but amazing however I prefer the traditional sound

[Swordrune10 Posted Jul 18th 2009 2:09AM]

im pretty sure i'd throw that thing out the window in mid-paragraph...

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 18th 2009 3:18AM]

Fun, but is there really any use to it?

[Wwhat Posted Jul 18th 2009 7:53PM]

Mean to show off his hat.

[adrianomelette Posted Jul 18th 2009 4:02AM]

no way! i wonder what my name sounds like!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 18th 2009 6:07AM]

Next step: making it more musical, perhaps by assigning notes from the same scale to the keys of a digraph, maybe using a fifth for "er" or a third for "ck," for example.

[James Posted Jul 18th 2009 6:33AM]

I wonder what would be spelled out if you were to play some Beethoven on this thing. Maybe a secret message from the past? Any conspiracy theorists want to break from disputing the moon landing and 9-11 and give it a shot?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 18th 2009 12:41PM]

This migrane inducing website seems to have this set up.

http://www.aqwertian.com/download.asp

[CosmicSquirt Posted Jul 18th 2009 4:40PM]

Regina Spektor must have been behind this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPMIXk-ipT0

[CosmicSquirt Posted Jul 18th 2009 4:41PM]

Regina Spektor has something to do with this, I'm sure...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPMIXk-ipT0

[CosmicSquirt Posted Jul 18th 2009 4:41PM]

Anyone see Regina Spektor's video for 'Eet?'

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 18th 2009 4:51PM]

A band in Greensboro, NC did this a couple years ago, WITHOUT any laptops!!! Go analog gadgets!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gylEJcBzVmk

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 18th 2009 8:12PM]

now, if only there was one that played the theme to "Murder She Wrote", one note at a time as you press each key.

c'mon. we need this in our world.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 20th 2009 1:50AM]

waste of time... but somehow vaguely interesting.