Martina McBride - Wild Angels

MELOGRAF (Melograph, from Greek. Song, melody and I write; also Puanograph, Eidomusicon) - attached to fp. a device that records on paper all the music played on it in the form of signs that can be easily translated into ordinary notes. Recording is carried out on a moving paper tape, where each sound is fixed in the form of a line of various lengths and thicknesses, located in a certain. place across the width of the tape. M. allows you to record improvisations; Record on M. (before its transfer to musical notation) makes it possible to objectively judge the features of the performer’s game. Attempts to create M. were made already in the 18th century. (von Creed, c. 1745; I.F. Unger, 1752-74, and others). The first M. were purely mechanical; in later designs pneumatics and electricity found use (J. Kapantier, 1880). A peculiar M. is one of the varieties of mech. fp - Velte Mignon; It makes it possible not only to record the executable on paper tape, but also to reproduce the recorded. See also Mechanical musical instruments.