[quote name=\'byrd62\' date=\'Mar 29 2004, 05:37 PM\'] I might have heard a sound clip or two from TPiR's early days, in which the show's famous "bell sequence" rang a bit slower as a "live sound effect" than it does today as a keyboard-generated effect. [/quote]
Didn't we discuss this previously, or is this an acid flashback, flashback, flashback, flashback, flashback, flashback...?
No doubt you did hear what you think you heard. For most of the Price's run the various audio techs controlling sfx would fire the "ping" using his/her thumb on a plunger switch similar to the little round call bell you'd have to summon the nurse at many hospitals.
The rapid fire series of repeating "pings" used to denote many wins would have your thumb cramping by the end of the show. Most of the techs I saw accomplished the rapidly repeating "pings" at various speeds by holding the plunger switch upside down in their fist and rapidly banging it on the table ;-)
Yes, the glamor is all on the living room side. ;-)
Randy
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