Tom Piggott Lost ARP Tapes

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After finding a box of Umatic Tapes, d'ARP set out to restore what turned into a treasure trove of vintage footage from television stations as well as workshops given at various colleges and universities demonstrating the ARP synthesizers when they were brand new.
This video features ARPostle Tom Piggott, demonstrating the ARP 2600 and ARP Odyssey.
Tom Piggott is an educator, musician and co-author of several books, including Learning Music with Synthesizers, co-authored with Alan R Pearlman and David Friend.

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@tihinter Год назад

this indeed is a fascinating video clip! I wish more of todays videos about synthesizers had that enthusiasm and talent! That guy must have been the grandfather of Alex Ball…

@Oxix52 6 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for this. Even if it’s not a perfect transfer, it’s amazing to see these machines being demonstrated at a time when they were new to the world and still mysterious to so many. I have the 2600FS and Odyssey from Korg as well as an original Avatar. I love my ARP instruments!

@AlanRPearlmanFoundation 2 месяца назад

Thanks for keeping the love alive! We are excited by the fact that these were discovered.

@cate8096 Год назад

This is magical! It's mind-boggling how Tom is somehow able to play three synths at the same time, with both hands and changing sounds on the fly on one synth, whilst playing another. Crazy. Love it.

@AlanRPearlmanFoundation Год назад

Glad you love it. He is still making magic on synthesizers and teaching a new generation of musicians!

@performtransform 9 месяцев назад

He's playing the Solina String Machine. The sounds are all presets he activates with the flip of a tab. My first synth was an ARP AXXE, so I have a soft spot for ARP history.

@TheScreamingFrog916 Год назад

I had an ARP Odyssey, back then, and have a 2600 now. This is way cool! Thanks for posting.

@AlanRPearlmanFoundation Год назад

You're welcome! Please subscribe to our page ... we will have more coming!

@performtransform 9 месяцев назад

The guys in Hampshire Music wouldn't let me touch the 2600, even when I bought an ARP AXXE from them. They let me play the PolyMoog, but not the 2600. I'm all Moog, Oberheim and Sequential Circuits now.

@SRV2013 Год назад

The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia had all these ARPs on display and for hands on use. I was in heaven when I played them back in 1973-4.

@skaneverdies Год назад

This is so cool! I'm a member. I wonder if they still have them in their collection?

@SRV2013 Год назад

@@skaneverdies I wish, but after 1976 they disappeared.

@paulallen8777 Месяц назад

Fantastic. Out of all my keyboards, my absolute favourite and the one I keep going back to is the ARP Odyssey. The 2600 is amazing too.

@AlanRPearlmanFoundation Месяц назад

Couldn't agree more!

@iskandertime747 Год назад

We are so lucky to have this footage at all. What a charming fellow! A natural at the synth and as a presenter.

@BruceCichowlas Год назад

Tom did much more work as a presenter after this. And the Teac 3340 was quite the handy machine at the time.

@AlanRPearlmanFoundation Месяц назад

Tom is a life-time educator and teaches even today!

@SanderAnderon Год назад

what a rare gem find...and had NO idea there were aftertouch keybeds in early 70s, thanks for posting this

@cate8096 Год назад

... also feel very fortunate to have the Learning Music with Synthesizers book.

@saladdays180s9 Год назад

I would love to spiral back into this era. So many forks in the road I'd love to take part in. There is so much grace in the voice of the presenter. Truly looking forward to the future with joy. We're here and the facsimile isn't so great. An addiction more than a freedom. I love playing with synths, but sometimes wonder what can of worms lay around the mountain. If you know what I mean.

@AlainHubert 3 месяца назад

I can tell by some of the video dropouts that this material was originally in color, but the videotape has probably degraded too much to retain the color signal enough to be played.

@wrsinger45 Год назад

Great memories Tom. Love the old Teac.

@user-jy3io4iz2p 3 месяца назад

Trying to mimmick an existing (wind or string) instrument is one thing. I prefer the synthesizer being its own thing. Though phased strings are one of my favorite kind of sounds as S&H when it seems to get out of control for a bit 😅 Great to see the innovation that went into synthesizers in the 70's that made them (more) affordable. Many great brands back then and ARP was one of them 🤠

@AlanRPearlmanFoundation 2 месяца назад

We think so, too (that ARP was a great brand!)

@paulschilling2996 Год назад

Killer demo!!

@Kae6502 Год назад

Back in the mid to late 70's our local PBS station aired a program similar to this. It wasn't so much a demonstration as it was a instrumental performance of then popular songs. This may be the guy, but it's been a while. I know he used ARP synths and maybe even had a 2500 in addition to the Odyssey and 2600 I recorded it on a cheap eight track cartridge recorder and I used to listen to it a lot. I still have the tape somewhere, but I don't have a an eight track player. Hoping you have more of this!

@AlanRPearlmanFoundation Год назад

Hi Kae! Please contact me... dina@alanrpearlmanfoundation.org

@davidvanpelt802 Год назад

What an amazing piece of history!!!!! Love this! Thank you for sharing!

@phlattgetit Год назад

The real stand-out is the Pro-Soloist. limited in control compared to the Odyssey and the 2600 but the level of expression and real musicality make up for it.

@MediaWest Год назад

tony banks played the soloist on many tracks.

@DJGollum64 Год назад

Milestone of Music-History!!! Good, old Times... ThanX a lot, for sharing this Pearl...!!!

@AndyVonal Год назад

Wonderful stuff! I got to get me one of those... suits!

@sawsquaresinetube Год назад

Thank you for sharing these!!!

@thebreathalyzer Год назад

Spellbinding!!! What a find! Thanks so much for sharing!

@jamesdefrancesco7765 Год назад

What a great find!

@dennis8196 Год назад

I have a feeling this was a colour recording, the greys are consistent with a colour recording that has lost the colour from either copying several times or intentional recording colour to a black and white tape. If this was recolourised using one of the many tools I'm confident most of it will look quite good.

@AlanRPearlmanFoundation Год назад

Sure... at the moment we don't have the resources, but hopefully it will happen.

@dennis8196 Год назад

@@AlanRPearlmanFoundation worth taking a look at DeOldIfy.

@Andronicus2007 Год назад

Yes, you see flashes of colour frames now and then.

@Dolores5000 Год назад

Beautiful

@d42kn355 Год назад

Thank you for the Upload!

@AlanRPearlmanFoundation Год назад

You're welcome! Please like our channel and spread the word!

@synth-o-rama Год назад

Thanks for an amazing video. Would've been cool, if the audio had been panned to the center, instead of only present at the left side. 🙂

@MaEasy_official Год назад

Great! Thank you!

@OudeisEimi Год назад

This is fantastic. The colour might be recoverable from the original Umatic tape, BTW. Some old-time analogue video guru might help (no, I don't personally know any, alas!)

@brianglock3099 Год назад

TBC might help, not sure what it was recorded on. Shot multi cam in a studio setting so could have been recorded to 3/4 inch. Possibly early 1 inch, before type C which became the standard, small chance the Sony 1/2 reel to reel, EIJA, they were mostly in schools and corporate and Black and White but they had a color model. Cool video though

@AlanRPearlmanFoundation Год назад

Thank you.

@dxutube Год назад

Very clearly explained to the layperson

@Klaw_ Год назад

Thanks for the video. Color would have been nice. A time base corrector might help?

@AlanRPearlmanFoundation Год назад

The tape was 47 years old, and the digitizers could only extract this.We may try again if we can get funding for it.

@skaneverdies Год назад

This is so much better than nothing, but yes, it's tantalizing that the color information is there!

@Mudge07 Год назад

Admit it, you just want to see what Tom’s attire palette was that day!

@exerciserelax8719 Год назад

Wow I didn't know they had touch-sensitive keys already back then.

@sawsquaresinetube Год назад

👏👏👏

@AlainHubert Год назад

It's ironic that a foundation based on Alan R. Pearlman's name couldn't find a way to send the monaural audio to both the left and right channels... 🙄

@AlanRPearlmanFoundation Год назад

This is a 47+ year old video found on a Umatic tape discovered in a bottom of a cardboard box.

@AlainHubert Год назад

@@AlanRPearlmanFoundation It couldn't have been very difficult to use a Y audio cable splitter to send the monaural audio from the U-Matic videotape player to both left and right audio inputs of the video digitizing equipment so that there would be audio from both channels on this video, couldn't it? Just saying...

@AlanRPearlmanFoundation Год назад

@@AlainHubert We don't have a U-Matic videotape player. For us to have played this could have been the ruin of the tape which was not stored in a temperature controlled or dust-free environment. This was salvaged by a company that does such restorations. We need funding to do anything complex. This is a non-profit. We are happy to receive donations.

@AlanRPearlmanFoundation Год назад

@@AlainHubert Do you have digitizing equipment? We are always looking for volunteers to help us!

@couchcamperTM Год назад

I did not even hear that. I use a plugin in my browser which fixes one-sided mono videos on youtube, among other things, like uneven levels between videos (the most annoying thing on yt) it's called Tweaks for youtube