Tom Piggott Lost ARP Tapes
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- After finding a box of Umatic Tapes, d'ARP set out to restore what turned into a treasure trove of vintage footage from television stations as well as workshops given at various colleges and universities demonstrating the ARP synthesizers when they were brand new.
This video features ARPostle Tom Piggott, demonstrating the ARP 2600 and ARP Odyssey.
Tom Piggott is an educator, musician and co-author of several books, including Learning Music with Synthesizers, co-authored with Alan R Pearlman and David Friend.
Thank you so much for this. Even if it’s not a perfect transfer, it’s amazing to see these machines being demonstrated at a time when they were new to the world and still mysterious to so many. I have the 2600FS and Odyssey from Korg as well as an original Avatar. I love my ARP instruments!
Thanks for keeping the love alive! We are excited by the fact that these were discovered.
this indeed is a fascinating video clip! I wish more of todays videos about synthesizers had that enthusiasm and talent! That guy must have been the grandfather of Alex Ball…
This is magical! It's mind-boggling how Tom is somehow able to play three synths at the same time, with both hands and changing sounds on the fly on one synth, whilst playing another. Crazy. Love it.
Glad you love it. He is still making magic on synthesizers and teaching a new generation of musicians!
He's playing the Solina String Machine. The sounds are all presets he activates with the flip of a tab. My first synth was an ARP AXXE, so I have a soft spot for ARP history.
I had an ARP Odyssey, back then, and have a 2600 now.
This is way cool! Thanks for posting.
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The guys in Hampshire Music wouldn't let me touch the 2600, even when I bought an ARP AXXE from them. They let me play the PolyMoog, but not the 2600. I'm all Moog, Oberheim and Sequential Circuits now.
The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia had all these ARPs on display and for hands on use. I was in heaven when I played them back in 1973-4.
This is so cool! I'm a member. I wonder if they still have them in their collection?
@@skaneverdies I wish, but after 1976 they disappeared.
We are so lucky to have this footage at all. What a charming fellow! A natural at the synth and as a presenter.
Tom did much more work as a presenter after this. And the Teac 3340 was quite the handy machine at the time.
Tom is a life-time educator and teaches even today!
... also feel very fortunate to have the Learning Music with Synthesizers book.
what a rare gem find...and had NO idea there were aftertouch keybeds in early 70s, thanks for posting this
I would love to spiral back into this era. So many forks in the road I'd love to take part in. There is so much grace in the voice of the presenter. Truly looking forward to the future with joy. We're here and the facsimile isn't so great. An addiction more than a freedom. I love playing with synths, but sometimes wonder what can of worms lay around the mountain. If you know what I mean.
Back in the mid to late 70's our local PBS station aired a program similar to this. It wasn't so much a demonstration as it was a instrumental performance of then popular songs. This may be the guy, but it's been a while. I know he used ARP synths and maybe even had a 2500 in addition to the Odyssey and 2600 I recorded it on a cheap eight track cartridge recorder and I used to listen to it a lot. I still have the tape somewhere, but I don't have a an eight track player. Hoping you have more of this!
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I can tell by some of the video dropouts that this material was originally in color, but the videotape has probably degraded too much to retain the color signal enough to be played.
Great memories Tom. Love the old Teac.
Fantastic. Out of all my keyboards, my absolute favourite and the one I keep going back to is the ARP Odyssey. The 2600 is amazing too.
Couldn't agree more!
Trying to mimmick an existing (wind or string) instrument is one thing. I prefer the synthesizer being its own thing. Though phased strings are one of my favorite kind of sounds as S&H when it seems to get out of control for a bit 😅
Great to see the innovation that went into synthesizers in the 70's that made them (more) affordable. Many great brands back then and ARP was one of them 🤠
We think so, too (that ARP was a great brand!)
Killer demo!!
tony banks played the soloist on many tracks.
I have a feeling this was a colour recording, the greys are consistent with a colour recording that has lost the colour from either copying several times or intentional recording colour to a black and white tape. If this was recolourised using one of the many tools I'm confident most of it will look quite good.
Sure... at the moment we don't have the resources, but hopefully it will happen.
@@AlanRPearlmanFoundation worth taking a look at DeOldIfy.
Yes, you see flashes of colour frames now and then.
Wonderful stuff! I got to get me one of those... suits!
What an amazing piece of history!!!!! Love this! Thank you for sharing!
The real stand-out is the Pro-Soloist. limited in control compared to the Odyssey and the 2600 but the level of expression and real musicality make up for it.
Thank you for sharing these!!!
Milestone of Music-History!!! Good, old Times... ThanX a lot, for sharing this Pearl...!!!
What a great find!
Beautiful
Spellbinding!!! What a find! Thanks so much for sharing!
Thanks for an amazing video. Would've been cool, if the audio had been panned to the center, instead of only present at the left side. 🙂
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This is fantastic. The colour might be recoverable from the original Umatic tape, BTW. Some old-time analogue video guru might help (no, I don't personally know any, alas!)
TBC might help, not sure what it was recorded on. Shot multi cam in a studio setting so could have been recorded to 3/4 inch. Possibly early 1 inch, before type C which became the standard, small chance the Sony 1/2 reel to reel, EIJA, they were mostly in schools and corporate and Black and White but they had a color model.
Cool video though
Thank you.
Thanks for the video.
Color would have been nice. A time base corrector might help?
The tape was 47 years old, and the digitizers could only extract this.We may try again if we can get funding for it.
This is so much better than nothing, but yes, it's tantalizing that the color information is there!
Admit it, you just want to see what Tom’s attire palette was that day!
Man, I've GOT to get me a suit like that!
Great! Thank you!
Very clearly explained to the layperson
Wow I didn't know they had touch-sensitive keys already back then.
It's ironic that a foundation based on Alan R. Pearlman's name couldn't find a way to send the monaural audio to both the left and right channels... 🙄
This is a 47+ year old video found on a Umatic tape discovered in a bottom of a cardboard box.
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It couldn't have been very difficult to use a Y audio cable splitter to send the monaural audio from the U-Matic videotape player to both left and right audio inputs of the video digitizing equipment so that there would be audio from both channels on this video, couldn't it? Just saying...
@@AlainHubert We don't have a U-Matic videotape player. For us to have played this could have been the ruin of the tape which was not stored in a temperature controlled or dust-free environment. This was salvaged by a company that does such restorations. We need funding to do anything complex. This is a non-profit. We are happy to receive donations.
@@AlainHubert Do you have digitizing equipment? We are always looking for volunteers to help us!
I did not even hear that. I use a plugin in my browser which fixes one-sided mono videos on youtube, among other things, like uneven levels between videos (the most annoying thing on yt) it's called Tweaks for youtube
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