So, despite not really knowing how to play the piano and not knowing how to read or write music, Cicoria got himself a piano and promptly began to play everything he heard in his head.

In many sources you can find that sliders claimed as actual heads but a slider itself is not a head it's a wing which helps read and write elements fly under the platter's surface.

A simulated three dimensional thin film head field was utilized in the write process and a giant-magnetoresistive (GMR) head was used in the read process.