What Is It?

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SifuPhil

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If you're over a certain age you probably know what this is.

Please don't say the answer out loud - let the rest of the class have a chance ...

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Ozarkgal said:
I have no clue, but this is a good thread. I often run across things in antique/junk stores that no one has any idea of what it's use was.
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That used to happen with me a lot. I used to be quite an antiquer - I lived in Nyack, NY, a little town on the western side of the Hudson River that at one point was known for its antique stores. I ran across things that to this day I still have no idea what they were. :eek:
 
That Guy said:
Used in music class to place a staff on the blackboard (not white board; blackboard!)
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You've got it. You and Zimmie properly deduced that this is a device that is used to draw a musical staff on a blackboard.

I remember watching my music teacher in school using one of these, and she made it look easy. She asked me to do it one day and it looked like 5 drunken snails had weaved across the board! :rolleyes:
 
R. Zimm said:
Yes but at least they were in sync!
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LOL!

At least until one of the pieces of chalk snapped, flew across the room and hit Donna Raguso square in the eye. :(

The course of True Love never did run smooth ...
~ A MidSummer Night's Dream, Act I, Scene I
 
I earned a BA in music theory in 1977 so I know those things real well. Yes, they can make some horiffic sounds on the right blackboard. You actually had to keep bending the wire holders into place and putting in new chalk or else you got only four lines or uneven spacing.
 
R. Zimm said:
I earned a BA in music theory in 1977 so I know those things real well. Yes, they can make some horiffic sounds on the right blackboard. You actually had to keep bending the wire holders into place and putting in new chalk or else you got only four lines or uneven spacing.
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I imagine the computing world has really turned many aspects of learning music theory on its ear - you can create music notation in a flash now, and play it back in any voice you want ... synthesizers that used to cost upwards of $5,000 are now outclassed by a $100 Casio keyboard ...
 
SifuPhil said:
I imagine the computing world has really turned many aspects of learning music theory on its ear - you can create music notation in a flash now, and play it back in any voice you want ... synthesizers that used to cost upwards of $5,000 are now outclassed by a $100 Casio keyboard ...
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Outlaw autotune!
 

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