DG =Dave Gorman DH = Dan Haythorn L = Laurie

S = Stuart V = Voice

DG: And, hello to you also. and hello to you. Hello, and welcome to Genius: a show all about you and your ideas. If you think you might be a genius we can give you the chance to prove it: all you have to do is email us with your cleverest notion. We invite the people with the most potential to join us and it's here that we work out once and for all who really is a genius.

OK Stuart, let's see what you make of our final idea tonight. It comes from Dan Haythorn from North West London.

DH: Dear Genius, imagine hooking a piano keyboard up to a choir, so that each key caused a different chorister to sing that note. Someone playing the keyboard would then be essentially playing a choir. I've never seen this done before, and I would really like to.

DG: Would this, this choir … a person in the choir, a chorister, is that note. That's what they represent.

DH: Yeah, well each, note would, um, be assigned to a different chorister, so someone would be middle C, someone would be C sharp etcetera, the length and breadth of the keyboard. And, you press that key - it would prompt them to sing that note.

DG: But it's not something an ordinary musician could ever own?

DH: No you couldn't have it at home, really no, not unless … not unless you happen to live with a choir of some sort.

DG: We obviously, we thought about doing it, in the studio and Thorin, our prop man, made an artist's impression of how he imagined it would look. He's imagining wires with lights from each key, to the choir, and we thought it was worthy of investigation so we have had a piano rigged up to lots of little candle lights. So if … if we can bring that in first of all …

Now just in case anyone thinks that this is just like a rehearsed thing and that this machine doesn't work, I think we're the perfect people to prove that this is … this is real. OK, you can see we've got the white keys, the black keys that correlate precisely with the white keys and the black keys on this piano. You don't mind if we do this, do you Laurie?

L: Ah, no.

DG: OK. After all we built it, I think we should. Just hit anything you like at random, a kind of …

What has he ever done to you?

And, well I think that you should maybe give it a go Laurie … you're the man who knows.

L: Mm, yeah. Any particular style?

DG: I think we should go classical.

L: Something classical, OK.

DG: Now apart from making Dan's dream come true, is this idea - Dan Haythorn and his piano choir - genius or not?

S: I think it's only begun to realise its potential. It's genius.

V: Genius.

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