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Player Piano
99% Invisible
The Future of Music
In the 1950s, Americans were drunk on the post-war promise of consumer technology. Music like Scott's just didn't exist in the mainstream, but he was sneaking it in there through commercials. He saw his machines as a way to push the envelope and thought that because the sounds they made were new, they'd catch the ear. In a weird historical twist, one of the ways he had financed all of this experimentation was by selling his early hits to Warner Bros.
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