Comments on: Sheet music for the Mario "coin" sound

By: allenmcbride

allenmcbride — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 03:08:00 +0000

Good to know; thanks!

By: Andrea

Andrea — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:25:00 +0000

Should’a known it’d be a perfect fourth.

By: IndexMe

IndexMe — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:26:00 +0000

Secret code if played backwards?

By: D

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:42:00 +0000

A great notification sound on the phone.

By: 42isall

42isall — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:18:00 +0000

Five is right out.

By: Brian S.

Brian S. — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:57:00 +0000

Three notes is enemy action.

By: Paul Renault

Paul Renault — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:21:00 +0000

If you play one note, it’s fair dealing. But two notes..it’s copyright infringement, eh?

By: Ivan Antonov

Ivan Antonov — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:47:00 +0000

By: ldobe

ldobe — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:31:00 +0000

Sheet music is to an MP3 as SVG is to a JPEG.

Can you slow down a recording of Adagio for Strings to 16% it’s original speed while still keeping true to the instrumental sound? I should think not, even with today’s best, most compute intensive algorithms. But an orchestra composed of analog human brains and a bunch of wood, metal and catgut can manage it with the sheet music just fine. Of course they’ll probably suffer some fatigue, but that’s only natural.

Sheet music is INFINITE fidelity. It just requires the instruments and people to make that infinite fidelity audible.

By: spoonfish

spoonfish — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:17:00 +0000

Mike Batt, I believe, and if I remember right it was all PR puffery…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-11964995

By: awjt

awjt — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:10:00 +0000

Well. Glad THAT’S settled.

By: Jeff Scherr

Jeff Scherr — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 23:24:00 +0000

woopsie

By: Wayne Dyer

Wayne Dyer — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 20:24:00 +0000

Or if you used the interval in the same manner. (also not a lawyer)

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 19:50:00 +0000

If we think of it in terms of number of times their compositions have been played, based solely on this one piece, Koji Kondo is quite possibly the most successful composer mankind has ever known.

By: allenmcbride

allenmcbride — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:28:00 +0000

This is interesting. I vaguely remember years ago reading about a rock band that included a take-off on John Cage’s 4’33″ on an album (titled a different time length, I think), and credited Cage as co-songwriter. If I recall correctly, Cage’s estate asked for royalties, and the band had to pay, but only because they had credited Cage… I seem to recall that all agreed that the idea of a silent musical piece in itself was not copyrightable, and yet the particular piece of art 4’33″ was. So maybe this would be the same situation… like Nintendo isn’t trying to copyright the melody itself, but rather the piece of art as a whole. So you could play a fourth and sell it but couldn’t play a fourth and say “this is the Mario coin sound” and sell that without paying royalties. Of course, not a lawyer; could be way off here.

By: xzzy

xzzy — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:52:00 +0000

Not going to lie, I actually googled for this a few years back and used it. I needed a coin sound for a game I was working on, but didn’t want to actually rip off a sample of Nintendo’s game. So as I was digging around to find what kind of sound wave was used to make the noise, I came across the sheet music too.

I did pick different notes, just because. But the interval was the same. :D

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:42:00 +0000

The second definition for the term and the one I use more often:

conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy; “an accurate reproduction”

I’m guessing that’s what they mean.

By: Pat R x 2

Pat R x 2 — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:28:00 +0000

If an ascending fourth can be copyrighted, most of us composers are well and truly screwed. Help us here, Cory…

By: Larry Rubinow

Larry Rubinow — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:28:00 +0000

Holy deja vu. http://boingboing.net/2012/10/09/sheet-music-for-super-mario-br.html

By: Jason Horowitz

Jason Horowitz — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:04:00 +0000

And I always thought the first note was a pick-up. Guess I was wrong all these years….

By: theophrastvs

theophrastvs — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:53:00 +0000

thankgness they have that explicit bass rest or else we’d default to a snazzy boogiewoogie with our restless left hand (syndrome)

By: brendan kiefer

brendan kiefer — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:39:00 +0000

How can sheet music be high-fidelity?

By: mzed

mzed — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:26:00 +0000

ZOMG, thank you! This has been eluding me for years.