Wow, that's really cool! I wish I could pay one lol.IHaveAName wrote: ↑Fri Mar 11, 2022 4:10 pmDangerousNoodle wrote: ↑Wed Mar 09, 2022 9:22 pmI just read this whole thread! This is very interesting, but I have one question. Would it be possible to actually play the siren with that keyboard? Or is it just for composing? (I am a piano enthusiast and playing a siren sounds so cool!)
If you're talking about this keyboard, yes. The keyboard was used to manually operate the dampers, live. This was especially used every day for the Marumitsu Department Store in downtown Sendai during the 9PM blast of 'This Road'.
The reference of "the sound of sendai" relates to the Marumitsu Department Store's music siren in downtown Sendai City in Miyagi prefecture. At some point, Marumitsu merged with some other stores and formed Sakurano department store. In 2017, the Sendai store was shut down due to low funds, but it still stands today.Jonas Clark wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 11:40 pmIt was said that these were on the Marumitsu store, nothing was known about the difference in the seeming two different units pictured, and it was said "the sound of Sendai" was gone forever.