novaburst
Senior Member
They called it the piano scam
Yeah I too tend to see the tender side of it, almost movingOr a true love story. Regardless, its quite an amazing story isn't it?
I don't see the scam.
1. In 2001, I recorded an album using a piano accordion that was tuned like a button box, and played it much like how a diatonic button box player would perform, except I sneaked in a couple things that can't be played on a diatonic button box, just for fun. I released it under a pseudonym and created a whole website to go with it complete a family biography, photos, schedule of fictitious venues and cities, fictitious band members, and everything else. Everyone in the industry fell for it. Over a thousand copies of the CD sold.
2. Around 2007, I created a cheesy song using the auto-accompaniment of a cheap keyboard and released it under the pseudonym of a farmer husband and wife duo. The song lyrics lightheartedly poked fun at all the rural, two-piece husband & wife duos who actually use keyboard auto-accompaniment to perform in the polka band circuit, much to the chagrin of polka bands. I made about 150 copies, drove down to Davenport, IA, and mailed them out to polka radio stations and bandleaders all over the country. I was officially "busted" when one polka bandleader who fell for the gag was in my studio recording, and found a copy of the song's lyrics I had accidentally left sitting in the vocal booth. The song didn't actually take off, however, until I re-released it on another CD a few years later. Now there are several bands around the country that play it. Everyone now knows it was my song, but no one knows who the vocalists are. That information can never be revealed.
You have to watch the whole video. In a nutshell, he took a pianist's recording, copied the audio from it, and released it as a new recording under his wife's name. She and "her" music became very popular as a result.
It absolutely is. It's direct theft of someone else's workSo is that a bad thing?
It absolutely is. It's direct theft of someone else's work