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| | Player piano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The player piano was most popular in the first half of the 20th century, roughly at the same time as the acoustic gramophone. | | | A player piano is a real, acoustic piano where the sound is produced by moving the keys, which in turn cause the hammers to strike the piano strings. | | | Later developments of the reproducing piano include the use of magnetic tape rather than piano rolls to record and play back the music, and, in the case of one instrument made by Bösendorfer, computer assisted playback. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_piano
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| | Player piano |
| | The music which a player piano is to reproduce is recorded on a long rolled up piece of paper known as a piano roll[?]. | | | A player piano is a type of piano which plays music without the need for a pianist. | | | Recent developments in the instrument include the use of magnetic tape rather than piano rolls to record the music, and, in the case of one instrument made by Bosendorfer[?], computer assisted playback. |
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http://www.fastload.org/pl/Player_piano.html
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| | Piano Disc digital player piano systems |
| | Player systems are for those who would like to listen to live piano music or record music themselves. | | | PDS-128 Plus SilentDrive is a player piano system that retrofits into virtually any acoustic piano. | | | The card precisely reproduces original musical performances and allows these concerts to be played back on an acoustic piano. |
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http://www.dollarhide.com/digplayer.htm
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| | On a Roll: History of the Steinway Reproducing Piano |
| | The player piano was like a jukebox; its "discs" were the paper piano rolls. | | | The music recorded on the player piano roll reflected the changing social fabric of the day--the end of Victorian convention and the beginning of the uninhibited modern thinking and free-spending practices of the twentieth century. | | | The piano was the entertainment center in the respectable 19th century home. |
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http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/piano/onaroll2.html
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| | Player Piano an automated piano vorsetzer by dr.Godfried-Willem Raes |
| | The player piano is one of the oldest musical robots build and developed at the Logos Foundation. | | | Note that the music requires the piano to be in top condition and well tuned. | | | Velocity scaling is not linear and depends both on the type of piano and on the hammerweigth for the notes to be played. |
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http://www.logosfoundation.org/instrum_gwr/playerpiano.html
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| | Player Piano History |
| | Later, roll recording pianists used a special recording piano that marked the paper as the music was played. | | | Player pianos were expensive but families who had them enjoyed the musical talents of the best pianists of the day. | | | Reproducing piano rolls had additional punched holes along both roll edges that activate mechanisms controlling tempo, volume, expression and subtle tone, just as the recording artist played the original music. |
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http://www.amica.org/Instruments/Player_Pianos/Player_Piano_History.htm
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| | No. 692: Player Piano |
| | You prepared the piano roll by punching paper to match the sheet music. | | | Piano roll companies soon made pianos that could reproduce a pianist playing. | | | Of course piano rolls missed subtleties of attack and release. |
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http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi692.htm
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| | PLAYER PIANO REBIRTH |
| | Many of the legendard masters of the piano recorded for this instrument. | | | Unfortunately, the real player piano is still dependent upon the original paper music rolls. | | | It is quite possible that contemporary roll recutters will find these initial scan files of great help in their efforts to provide the player piano community with an ever larger library of new rolls for those preferring to operate their pianos with new recut rolls. |
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http://members.shaw.ca/smythe/rebirth.htm
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| | Player Piano and Mechanical Music Exchange |
| | Piano roll suppliers (new and used), music, MIDI | | | The Mechanical Music Digest is a discussion group for collectors, restorers and others interested in player pianos, music boxes and other mechanical music instruments. | | | This piano is looking for a home and I would like to find someone who will enjoy it as much as my family has. |
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http://mmd.foxtail.com/Exchange
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| | Complete Piano Services - Player Pianos |
| | performances to music roll, by means of special recording pianos. | | | The rolls recorded by George Gershwin, Rachmininoff and Paderewski are now available on CD or floppy disk to meet the demand from collectors and all music enthusiasts. | | | Early instruments could only play a range of 58 or 65 notes from the music roll, whereas the piano typically had 85 or 88 keys. |
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http://www.completepiano.com/SalesDept/PlayerPianos.asp
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| | The Player Piano Page - Pianola Information & Resources |
| | Famous pianists who recorded music rolls for the player piano. | | | During the first three decades of the twentieth century, a substantial number of famous pianists committed their performances to music roll, by means of special recording pianos. | | | For those who are not familiar with this instrument, it is best described simply as a self-playing piano. |
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http://www.pianola.com
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| | The Player Piano |
| | The concept of the modern player piano originated in the USA about 100 years ago. | | | The music rolls for all these machines were produced by a clever musician/technician who simply translated the printed notes of the sheet music into a series of perforations. | | | The Musical Museum is unique in its extensive collection of this type of self-acting piano, one of the most famous being the Steinway Grand Piano which once belonged to Princess Beatrice - Queen Victoria's youngest daughter. |
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http://www.musicalmuseum.co.uk/player.html
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| | The Player Piano Page |
| | Underneath every player piano is a regular piano and all pianos are tuned in the same basic manner. | | | Visit PianoSupply.com on Piano World for player piano parts, books and more. | | | Over 4-1/2 hours of great piano music in this 2 CD set! |
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http://www.pianoworld.com/player.htm
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| | Berkley Piano of San Diego, #1 in rebuilding, refinishing, cd player piano & used sales. |
| | Berkley Piano of San Diego, #1 in rebuilding, refinishing, cd player piano & used sales. | | | Russell is an expert in cd player piano conversion (factory trained and certified at both QRS(TM)—home of Pianomation—and PianoDisc). | | | and takes great pride in providing only the highest quality refinishing, rebuilding, installations of cd player systems, and tunings for top-level performance every time. |
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http://berkleypiano.com
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| | CD PLAYER PIANO SYSTEMS: Berkley Piano, San Diego : Number 1 in PlayerPiano Conversion |
| | Russell Berkley has been installing player piano systems in fine pianos since 1982, with over 500 successful piano conversions completed to date. | | | Berkley Piano, Inc. sells, moves and installs all the latest models of new cd player piano systems. | | | If you have a piano you’d like to have converted, or have any questions about cd player piano systems, call Berkley Piano, Inc. at |
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http://berkleypiano.com/cd_player_pianos.html
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| | "This is a piano bar, and a piano bar, by definition, has a piano. | | | TITLE: Player Piano AUTHORS: Punk and Sabine CATEGORY: D/C RATING: PG ARCHIVE: Take it and even maybe let us know where: Punk: (punkm@earthling.net) and Sabine: (sabine101@juno.com) SUMMARY: The combo went back to New York. | | | Casey jerked a thumb toward the piano tuner, or maybe the piano. |
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http://www.grapefruithead.com/ourboys/sabine/piano.txt
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| | PLAYER PIANO MECHANISMS, REPRINTS, SERVICE MANUALS, REBUILDING MANUALS, TUBING DIAGRAMS & TECHNICAL LITERATURE |
| | Can be distinguished from other reproducing pianos by the tracker bar: All openings are the same size and have a pair of staggered tracking holes to read the edges of the music roll. | | | Tubing schematic for the Recordo expression made by the Starr Piano Co. | | | Coinola advertising poster, 18" X 24", showing the "orchestrion cabinet" which was rolled in front of an ordinary piano to utilize the keyboard. |
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http://www.buysecure.com/playercare/reprints.html
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| | Player Piano Parts Page |
| | The non-player aspects of a piano are not | | | Can be used to cover the back of some upright pianos | | | Paper Tape to repair the end and edges of player piano rolls-- |
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http://www.stevespianoservice.com/player.htm
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| | Orange Coast Piano, new player pianos, old player pianos, antique pianos and musical instruments, new pianos, rebuilt ... |
| | We combine 50 years of piano rebuilding experience to provide you with an accurate estimate of the cost of restoration your piano based on facts, not by guesswork or approximation. | | | Orange Coast Piano, new player pianos, old player pianos, antique pianos and musical instruments, new pianos, rebuilt pianos, restored pianos,refinished pianos | | | Buy - Sell - Trade - New - Used - Antique Pianos - Vintage Pianos - Upright Pianos - Grand Pianos - Studio Pianos - Mini Pianos |
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http://www.playerpianos.com/index.html
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| | Pianomation Piano Player Controller |
| | This is the choice if you want no control boxes to be seen on your piano. | | | Every Petine has Record capabilities, NetPiano Playback capability, Compact Flash Type II capability, Flash Upgrade Capability, MP3 playback, Control from data dial,Turn Key Plug and Play,Plays QRS CD’s and most other player piano files. | | | The Best in Piano Player Systems, Pianos, and Music Software |
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http://www.qrsmusic.com/pianomation/pmm_systems.htm
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| | Piano Rebuilding & Player Restoration for Less |
| | Visit QRS, the music roll and electronic player mechanism people. | | | Click here for detailed photo records of the piano rebuilding going on in the shop now and in the recent past. | | | Specializing in the Rebuilding of Steinway, Mason and Hamlin, Knabe, Baldwin, Chickering Pianos, and many more piano brands. |
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http://www.pianorestoring.com
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| | Gabe's Player Piano Page |
| | Today, there are artists composing music and arrangements specifically for the player piano. | | | Most pianos are no longer made to this standard. | | | He also has several Real Audio recordings of his player on his web site. |
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http://www.gabesplayerpianos.org/Mindspring
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| | Player Piano Restoration |
| | Player piano rolls are readily available from a company in Buffalo, New York - QRS Music Technologies, Inc. - in a wide variety of styles of music, from the old-fashioned to the most modern music, and their titles are being updated all the time. | | | We restore player pianos from all over the US, and can arrange for shipping of your piano to our restoration facilities and back to your home as part of the package. | | | Many of our customers who have old player pianos would like to have them restored, but may hesitate because their player rolls are old, or may have been misplaced years ago. |
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http://www.accutonepiano.com/player_piano_restoration.htm
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| | Bucks County Piano - PianoDisc Player Pianos, Kurzweil Player System, Story and Clark |
| | Even on the piano that you bought last year and absolutely love. | | | You can make the piano in your home into a digital player piano system with full orchestrations and live vocals! | | | The full system of playback, symphony through built-in speaker, and the full record capability on floppy disk. |
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http://www.buckscountypiano.com/player.htm
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| | Ragtime Nickelodeons, Calliopes and Player Pianos Home Page |
| | Our 52 piece acoustic MIDI orchestras with congas, agogos, timbales, claves, guiros, bongos, Vibra slap, drums, crash cymbals, etc. Player piano and nickelodeons, carousel organs, bandorgans, calliopes, preassembled kits or ready to play. | | | It is a MIDI Zm-AbCDEGJKPS with guitar, banjo, bass synth, pipes, glock, piano, accordion, Steel Drum and drums. | | | Plays 47 percussion instruments with Bass Guitar, Guitar, Banjo, Flute Pipes, Accordion, Bells and Piano. |
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http://www.ragtimewest.com
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| | 67. Maintaining player pianos |
| | Another option is to trash all of the player works, and use the piano as a regular piano only. | | | Be sure you don't trash any of the parts of the regular piano. | | | I do not pretend that I can solve all your player piano problems. |
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http://www.stevespianoservice.com/67-plyer.htm
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| | Holiday Player Piano Musical - Mr. Christmas |
| | Holiday Player Piano a Musical Tribute to Americana | | | Elaborate hinged windows in the top and bottom of the piano keep the song cylinders visible and add authenticity | | | Indulge your fascination with this witty music box version of an American classic! |
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http://www.collectiblestoday.com/ct/product/prdid-1601187001.jsp
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| | QRS Playola Portable Digital Player Piano |
| | Only 32"H x 10"W x 12"D. Piano solos or orchestrated use. | | | CD prices range from $25.00 (Piano Solos) to $55.00 (orchestrated & VCR "Sing-Along" tapes). | | | Will fit any 88 note grand, spinet or upright piano. |
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http://www.pianosupply.com/playola
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| | MPR: Conlon Nancarrow: Otherworldly Compositions for Player Piano |
| | It's an instrument that seems to fit better in pizza parlors and shoot-'em-up saloons in old Westerns than in serious classical music: the player piano. | | | Radio Feature "Freed from worrying about whether performers could actually perform the music, Nancarrow developed a body of work that is like no other." | | | MPR: Conlon Nancarrow: Otherworldly Compositions for Player Piano |
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http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/199710/29_bakera_nancarrow
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| | DC System & Player Piano |
| | I measured the back of one of these pianos and it is not deep enough for those tanks. | | | But could easily be fitted in the back, with a back cover. | | | Alan Barnard Salem, Missouri I have the exact problem, also in an Aeolian "Duo-Art" (gimme a break!) piano. |
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http://www.ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech/2005-May/173395.html
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| | KURT VONNEGUT: Peter J. Reed on ''Player Piano'' |
| | The title derives from the fact that the player piano, with its key-punched paper rolls displacing the pianist, is one of the earliest applications of automation. | | | Grab your very own copy of Player Piano from Amazon.com. | | | Player Piano, Vonnegut's first published novel, enjoyed a mixed success, the original Scribners edition being followed within two years by the 1953 Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club edition and a Bantam paperback with a new title, Utopia 14, in 1954. |
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http://www.vonnegutweb.com/playerpiano/pp_peterjreed.html
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| | Naples Piano Company Redirect |
| | Please call (239) 404-8007 or (941) 320-0000 for information on pianos, repairs, restoration, tunings, and more. | | | You should be automatically redirected to the new location. |
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http://www.playerpiano.us
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| | PianoDisc |
| | This option lets you record your piano performances via PianoDisc's patented TFT (Touch Film Technology), an exclusive system that faithfully captures every element of your original performance. | | | There is no description available for this item. |
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http://www.pianodisc.com
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| | Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut - Microsoft Reader eBook |
| | What is maybe most interesting about Player Piano is its scathingly clever take on the future, which looks and sounds an awful lot like the smug, "progressive" present. | | | Kurt Vonnegut's first novel Player Piano, published in 1952, heralded the beginning of one of the most diverting and provocative adventures in modern American fiction. | | | Vonnegut went on to write novels that perhaps had greater formal skill and technique, but Player Piano is a tour de force of imaginative insight into modern life and a shrewd satire of American progress. |
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| | The Player Piano (Web)Ring |
| | Specifically created for All Websites that have something to do with those marvelous mechanical music makers known lovingly as Player Pianos. | | | The Player Piano (web)Ring was initiated on September 10, 1998 by | | | Hosted by Player-Care: Click Here for all your Player Piano Needs |
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http://www.player-care.com/the_ring.html
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| | Player Piano, Mechanical Music, Automatic Musical Instruments |
| | A collection of info on player piano's and mechanical musical instruments by Michael Waters | | | We also have a new section on the Power Roll which is an interface between your player piano and your computer. | | | If your looking for some information on anything about player piano's (pianola's) or Automatic Musical Instruments then this page is a good place to start. |
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http://www.waterex.com.au/player
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| | Amazon.ca: Player Piano: Books |
| | They seem always to stay one step ahead of the "machines." At least so far. | | | Therefore, the world of Player Piano didn't really "grab" me. I can't see it happening. | | | Buy Player Piano with Welcome to the Monkey House today! |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385333781
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| | Player Piano Restorations Illustrated Home Page |
| | All sound content on this site is powered by Real Audio.If you do not have a Real Audio player installed | | | This site is dedicated to all people interested in the restoration of Antique Player Pianos. | | | On the following pages you will see restoration projects I have been involved with. |
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| | The Piano Player (2002) |
| | The Piano Player - Brennende Seelen vergessen nie (Germany) (DVD title) | | | Tagline: A deadly hit to erase the past. | | | Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for The Piano Player (2002) |
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293509
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| | MMD Archives: Player-Care "850+ Player Piano Makes & Makers" |
| | When I hear about a piano maker that isn't on the list, I go out of my way to find out as much as I can about the piano and the player system that is installed in the instrument. | | | Hi All, Back when I started the "850+ Player Piano Makes and Makers" listing at Player-Care.com, I asked Durrell Armstrong, the owner of Player Piano Co., if he objected to me using his listing as a starting point. | | | MMD Archives: Player-Care "850+ Player Piano Makes and Makers" |
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http://mmd.foxtail.com/Archives/Digests/200306/2003.06.07.09.html
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| | PIANO |
| | a piano parts source (w/player) for trade accounts only | | | OR NEED SOME PART, PLEASE GO list any spare player actions you have or find an action for an empty case. |
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http://www.geocities.com/tybeeclark/piano.htm
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| | Funbrain.com The Piano Player |
| | For each note shown, click on the correct key on the virtual piano. | | | Click on the difficulty level you wish to play to begin. |
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http://www.funbrain.com/funbrain/notes
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| | Amazon.com: Player Piano: Books: Kurt Vonnegut |
| | When "Player Piano" first begins, the reader is presented with an alternate reality of the 1950s/1960s in America, who has just fought the "Last War" and where the common masses are subsidized by the federal government and all industry has been centralized and streamlined by a massive bureaucracy. | | | The test for a great novel is the test of time and how well it retains its relevancy. | | | The new factories are fully automated through a conglomeration of vacuum tubes, wiring, and machines. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385333781?v=glance
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