The House on the Rock
By Allen Miller, forwarded by Kerr Jamieson
Jody,
This posting to PIPORG-L might be of interest to Automatic list subscribers.
Kerr.
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> Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 12:53:00 UTC
> From: "(Allen Miller)" <a.miller2@GENIE.GEIS.COM>
> Subject: Re: House on the Rock
>
> While I have only seen HOR in photos, it has a Z-tronics relay, so I decided
> to look it up in the files. The relay purchased (and installed on
> "something") would have played an organ of 5m/56rk plus 7 tuned percussions.
> Something MUST have played at one time because they later bought a "Magic
> Tuner" hand-held remote key-playing device.
>
> The photos appear to be completely bogus, however, especially a complete
> chest of umpteen ranks of flue pipes mounted "en-chamade."
>
> During the assembly of all the musical instruments and the organ, Alex
> Jordan, creator of HOR, purchased one of the 8 rare remaining Austin
> Premiere Quadruplex Players from Bill Petty of Ft. Defiance, VA. Bill then
> had the Austin Quadruplex Roll Perforater. The sale included one each of
> every roll in the Austin Library. Since I acquired the roll perforater at
> that same time, I spent about a week making copies of all the rolls.
> Something just seemed "amiss" about the entire deal, so I elected to keep
> all the master rolls and to give Jordan the copies along with the player.
>
> It is my understanding that the player was never connected, but was "gussied
> up" (Dave Junchen's words) to look as though it was twice as big, and
> included in the visual display. I was always disturbed that this one of so
> few remaining Austin players was basically taken out of service.
>
> It appears as though the original intent was OK but that as the "fantasy"
> grew it became impossible to maintain. From the photos, I would guess that
> nothing in the collection was left intact.
>
> The people who worked on the organ are no longer either with us or in the
> business, and the last correspondence was in 1981.
>
> I have a copy of that coffee-table book, Jim, and it sure is a case of
> Ripley's "Believe-It-Or-Not."
>
> Allen
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