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Re: replacing the desktop metaphor (music composition)

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From: Ralph Hyre
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 1989 20:58
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In article <27265@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) writes:
>She also composes, using a music-score processor. she uses the mouse in
>one hand to place notes on staves, and the keyboard under the other to
>select which kind of note the mouse will leave.  
Why not use a real piano-style keyboard for this?  It's hard to get more
natural, unless you have no piano experience.  or a MIDI guitar, or
anything MIDI interfaceable that you can easily attach to most
computers.  For editing, it should be sufficient to point at the
note with the mouse and change it.
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From: ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac,comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: replacing the desktop metaphor (music composition)
Keywords: desktop metaphor, graphical interfaces, computing environments
Message-ID: <3978@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 6 Jan 89 20:58:30 GMT
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