[neverhart]

I'm playing keyboards for the third time in Chess, and I'm wondering if anybody has any insight into what keyboards the score is written for? Specifically, I'm playing the 2nd and 3rd books, and there are what look to be Program/Patch info in the upper left corner. The diagram is a circle, with a line bisecting it horizontally, and one number in the top hemisphere, and another in the lower. Someone has suggested maybe they reference two keyboards, or a split, with one split/keyboard playing the top number patch, and the other the lower?

The time the show was written kinda suggests to me maybe a DX7 IIFD, but that's just a guess, and I have no idea what boards were available/popular in Europe/UK at that time. There are no resources to figure out what the diagrams mean, and only occasionally a "Strings" or "Harp" notation.

This is all pretty academic, and I have sounds that work, I'm just interested in the etymology of the books and have found no resources online.

[Yossarian]

That is some question you have there Neverhart. My advice is to ask the good looking clarinet player you have in the pit to help you. He is good for all sorts of worldly advice from how to rake the perfect zen garden (go in circles) to how to get those bullies to stop picking on your kids at school (you cut one real bad and the rest will leave you alone) and even the right keyboard sounds. I would have to say that a clarinet player in the pit is worth an entire brass section.

[jkurzynski]

I have no idea but the clarinet player is pretty hot.