# The talent level of the individual Beatles

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-talent-level-of-the-individual-beatles/694000>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 25, 2014, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-talent-level-of-the-individual-beatles/694000 "2014-07-25T05:58:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-talent-level-of-the-individual-beatles/694000/81 "2014-08-01T18:34:21Z")

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> [@Octarine](#):
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> Well, that and all us Beatles fans need excuses to have long, detailed conversations about them. We’re finally running out of topics, dammit! 😉

Not a bad ratio, though - 6 years in the limelight fueling 44 years (and counting) of long, detailed conversations.

Must’ve been because they were a really mediocre band. 😃

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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2014, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-talent-level-of-the-individual-beatles/694000/82 "2014-08-02T04:56:54Z")

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> [@Learjeff](#):
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> The software and hardware both have existed for quite a while now. Listen to “Gershwin Plays Gershwin” for example. The player piano doesn’t rate because it doesn’t play dynamics: all notes are the same volume. You can, using a pedal, adjust the overall force, but it applies to all notes being played at the time. The very name of the “pianoforte” is due to its ability to play soft and loud, to control dynamics, which previous keyboard instruments did not have.

We have a rolmonica - a harmonica that plays using a scroll. You just blow through it, it does the notes. My father in law bought it in the 1930s. We took it to Antiques Roadshow - the music, still in very good shape much of it still with packaging, is more valuable than the instrument.

[Youtube demo of one being played.](http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB0QtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DQ2c9IFClFKc&ei=nW7cU53nJoueyASI64DQAw&usg=AFQjCNGjBCrXXhJdc64xtyt0WrC1bKNo7g&sig2=hLirceLTcgwz0zk6uUl2Uw&bvm=bv.72197243,d.aWw)

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