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Karaoke - entertainment, which consists in non-professional singing using an electronic device that allows you to sing to pre-recorded music (phonogram); also the device itself.

Making a studio recording without a vocal part is as old as recording itself. Many professional and amateur artists perform in conditions where full-fledged live musical accompaniment is impossible for technical or financial reasons. In these cases, performers resort to "karaoke" (not to be confused with a phonogram containing both musical accompaniment and vocal recording).

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Karoke

1960s: the creation of audiovisual recorders In 1961-66, the American television channel NBC launched a karaoke-like series "Sing with Mitch" featuring Mitch Miller and his choir. A line with the lyrics of the songs being performed was broadcast at the bottom of the screen so that viewers could sing along to the choir while watching the program. Choral singing, which has existed since people learned to sing, has changed a lot with the advent of new technology. In the late 60s and early 70s, recorded audio material began to dominate music recording, making it much easier for musicians and singers to tour and perform. In no small measure, this was influenced by the advent of the tape recorder and tapes, which best met the desire of artists to have a convenient format that would allow you to quickly and easily duplicate music.

Simultaneously, since 1967, a massive influx of Filipino musicians to Japan began. In an effort to keep their costs as low as possible, Filipinos have been successful in finding technical solutions that would allow them to earn a good income without much cost. They used "backing tracks" recorded on tape cassettes, which became very popular in the Philippines in the late 60s and early 80s. Especially popular "minus music" was here in the late 60s - early 709s, called "multiplex music". Usually instrumental versions were available on cassettes with such music, both without vocals and with a vocal part. Backing tracks may have influenced the creation of more complex systems in Japan, which are now called karaoke machines.

Born in 1940, Daisuke Inue has always loved music and has been determined to become a musician since childhood. He played the drums in the school band, but he never learned to read music: he just memorized the tunes and practiced until he beat his hands. After school, Daisuke joined a touring band, but after a few years he realized that he had no musical talent. Returning to his native Kobe, he began to earn extra money in an ensemble that played in the evenings in a bar, then the visitors just had a fashion to go on stage and sing to live music.

One day in 1969, one of the regular customers, a local businessman, approached the musician. He explained that he had business meetings in another city, which, according to the accepted tradition, would end in a bar - singing to the music: "Daisuke, your group knows my voice well. Could you record a musical accompaniment for me?" His wish was embodied in the form of a reel of tape, and a few days later the businessman returned delighted with a request to record a few more songs.

It was then that Daisuke came up with the idea of a device that would allow playing musical accompaniment for vocals. He turned to the DENKO company, which, on his order, assembled several Juke 8 machines, consisting of a microphone, an amplifier, an eight-track tape recorder and a coin acceptor. The music machine, designed for bars, appeared on the market in 1971 and gradually won the sympathy of visitors.

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Daisuke Inue with Juke 8

The new invention was named "karaoke", after a famous incident twenty years earlier. In 1952, the performance of one of the famous theater groups in Osaka was on the verge of failure due to the strike of the orchestra. It was not possible to find a replacement for the musicians, and the impresario called Matsuda Electronics with a request to provide sound reproducing equipment. A company representative, while installing equipment in the theater, looked into the orchestra pit and said: "Music is playing, but the orchestra pit is empty!" "Empty Orchestra", in Japanese "kara okesutura", has become an abbreviated "karaoke".

Daisuke Inue did not patent his invention because he did not believe in its success. On the other hand, this is precisely what caused its widest distribution. And in 2004, Daisuke Inue received the Ignobel Peace Prize with the wording "for inventing a completely new way for people to learn to be tolerant of each other."

It is said that this was the first and only occasion in the history of this playful award when the audience stood up and greeted the laureate with a standing ovation in all seriousness.

Author: S.Apresov

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