Article: ROLL OVER, BEETHOVEN, AND LISTEN TO THE HIGH-TECH NEWS STUDENTS HAVE MUSIC COMPOSITION IN THE PALMS OF THEIR HANDS.(News)

Byline: RUTH SCHUBERTP-I reporter

ELLENSBURG -- The three students stood together, all madly tapping away on the screens of their Palm.

From a distance, it would have been easy to assume that they were enthusiastically entering phone numbers or setting up a meeting.

Actually, they were making music.

The compositions played last week by these students included a Space Age composition called "Palms Up" and a quartet called "Palming Around," both created by Central Washington University graduate students specifically for the hand-held digital device.

"I can safely say none of the pieces you heard today would ever have ...

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