File puptcrit/puptcrit.0804, message 413


Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:30:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Caro Stewart <papusi_marionete-AT-yahoo.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] The frog pianist


Not a good quality video, but good enough to notice that the keys are moving when touched by frog's fingers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRT_6whxtc0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgfa7_fLcOQ&feature=related

Watch the end of the second video, frog's left hand.

Fred, thank you so much for getting the text out!!

Caro

--------------
> 
> I've been watching and watching....
> Seems the keys are articulated.
> 
> At times the fingers seem to have individual control, and
> other times, 
> especially in the shot where the puppeteer shows, he seems
> to be just wiggling a 
> hand control. I really think it's much more than that.
> At times, when the frog is 
> 'uplifted' by the music and doesn't touch the
> keys (even though the music 
> continues) his fingers move beautifully in the air. 
> I am also intrigued by the eye movement which is totally
> unaffected by the 
> position of the head. 
> So I have to ask if the eye strings enter the head through
> the neck and then 
> up to the eyes. With the neck being, in effect, a
> 'central universal' (my 
> term) the strings passing through at that point would not
> be interfered with. 
> 
> More study needed.
> 
> Fred T.
> 
> 
> 
> > Is it my imagination or are the keys really going down
> as the frog plays?
> > 
> > Mary H.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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