Snape's iPod (was: Staff's Activities (was:Re: Snape's Speech patterns)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 142533

> Owning a piano then points to a music enjoyment and distribution 
> model of pre-recorded times, back when people learned the hits from 
> the latest opera, or the big new symphony, by playing it four-hands.  
> Or maybe he's just a junk collector? :)  We *do* know there is 
> wizarding radio, of course. This could be a more primary model of 
> distribution of music, as it was in the early part of the 20th 
> century--especially before longer playing record formats came out.  
> You could listen to an entire symphony on broadcast that would take 
> many 33s to fit in.
> 
Pippin:
What about music boxes? There used to be quite elaborate ones with
interchangeable discs that played the latest tunes. 
"There was a musical box that emitted a faintly sinister, tinkling tune
when wound, and they all found themselves becoming curiously 
weak and sleepy,  until Ginny had the sense to slam the lid shut;"
--OOP ch6

Slughorn's piano might have been enchanted to play itself (I was going
to mention the harp in SS/PS but it only plays itself in the movie.)
However, Ginny's greeting card sings screechily in PoA and the
suits of armor have been enchanted to sing carols. 

It seems like the WW may be bigger on sound reproducing rather than  
recording. They also have amplification with the sonorus spell.

Also, though we haven't heard of live bands performing at places
like the Three Broomsticks, there's no reason why they couldn't.
The Veela do their dance to music at the QWC, so that's another venue.
Too bad Harry was too bewitched by the dancing to notice anything
about where the music was coming from.

Pippin