Election 2020

[Bob Butler 54]

(10-08-2020, 09:56 AM)David Horn Wrote: When you pull out all the stops, you play everything at once.  Isn't that Trump in the last debate?  Did it take ... at all?

Meaningless rambling...

Back in my organ days, I used to occasionally pull all the stops on a Hammond just for fun.  The result was not the best of all possible voices, but each stop was on key or a harmonic and still required you to hit a note key.  Given the right notes, what came out was OK.

Some of the stops are effectively harmony voices.  They play a rational fraction of an active high or low.  Someone with malice could pull only harmony voices on one hand, only melody voices on the other, and you would get a fairly convoluted multi key mess.

On a modern keyboard, if you routed a keyboard to a bunch of synthesized voices, you could press one note key and hear a trumpet, a violin, a chorus, a kazoo, a steel drum, etc, all respond with the same note at the same time.  Most of my synthesizers can imitate more instruments than they can play notes.  You might ask so many voices to play that the poor computer couldn't generate the result.

Trump in the last debate?  It was more like he didn't want anybody playing an organ piece and was disruptive enough to only allow something else.  Hitting a bunch of note keys with no attempt to organize it into a song might be a better analogue to what he did.  Picture a three year old at a cathedral organ being thrilled to make noise, except he thought to up the volume pedal before moving up to the keys.  If the moderator silences the candidates during the other guy's turn to speak the problem could be eliminated.  

I don't know if that would suit Trump though.  It would allow Biden to put out his message.  I would be hard to not respond, problematic if he did.  While it will be hard for Trump to avoid an offered stage, it wouldn't surprise me if his plan to avoid a rational debate and hold one of his super spreader rallies sticks.