Tag: Organ
Willem Breuker barrel organ stuff
Programmable mini pin organ for kids
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Doubts have been expressed re my capacity to sing over the bloody thing. Here at 02:00 is Claude Reboul on the Place Beaubourg demonstrating that this is not a problem: About a decade ago Claude recorded his greatest hits album, L’organiste barbare, which is in similar mode and unfortunately doesn’t seem to be available anywhere…
Wikipedia it say 1967 Lunchconcert voor drie Amsterdamse draaiorgels 1968 Music for Han Bennink voor draaiorgel 1969 Preparation to voting voor draaiorgel 1970 Een dagje ouder voor klein draaiorgel I thought off the top of my bonce that he’d done stuff for mixed ensembles, but neither this nor that is on UTube. His normal style…
Here: Gloggomobil by Naef toys of Switzerland is based on the principle of the barrel organ and helps to introduce a child to the world of music. Designed by Herbert Bahli. When the black pegs are pushed into the holes on the drum and the simple turning mechanism is set in motion, melodies can be…
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/09/17/chocolate-steampunk.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tClY79wSr_0
And it’s not for sale.
Well, donated by interested Zimbabwean Maoists. I also found an old M-Audio Radium 49 which seems to do MIDI input on Vista, so now I have to decide which tunes to do first. A Wesley Willis tribute seems in order. Has anyone got transcriptions of his texts or of Casio keyboard riffs? I guess the…
Rather than mucking around with Gumstix and stuff, the excellent Christian Blanchard runs his Orgautomatix from MIDI data and a MIDI reader on a Palm (pic here of the setup). Old Palms go for a tenner and the Z22 is around 70 quid at the moment. IttyMidi does a package including an old Palm (only…
A couple of things found (a Topsy, for example, “runs for 7 hours on a 12 volt 30 AH battery“): http://www.mark-ju.net/bike_ride/equipment/charger.htm charges stack of 6Vs For about the same weight as a generator setup, you could get a solar charger that works whether you are pedaling or not. Batteries.com has one that weighs .28 pounds…
La Java Viennoise played at Les Primitifs du Futur: That looks like Fay Lovsky on musical saw, and yes, that is Robert Crumb in the background. You are going to do something by Ms Lovsky, asks S. Well, of course. I tend to prefer what I imagine are her B-sides, and unfortunately they don’t seem…
Great tunes, great doggerel, small simians