Re: Electronic barrel-organs
By Claus Kucher, forwarded by Robbie Rhodes
Here's Claus Kucher's reply to my first message to him. Jody asked that we CC: the group, and what appears below may be of general interest.
>
> Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 23:30:24 +0200
> To: rhodes@foxtail.com (Robbie Rhodes)
> From: dick@via.at (Claus Kucher)
> Subject: Hallo aus Wien (very cold and rainy now)
>
>
>
> Hello Robbie,
>
> Thank you for your quick answer.
>
> In Vienna there is now an European meeting called "MEMUSI 95" (from
> "MEchanische MUSIk") - so called "Werkelmaenner" (Viennese phrase - there
> is no feminin equivalent) playing their Drehorgeln and Leierkaesten
> (... you can find infos and pictures in
>
> --->>> http://www.rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~engler/carousel.html
>
> and also cross-references to other organizations)
>
> The organizator of this meeting, Wolfgang Geissler and his friends, are
> doing it the 13th time in the "Boehmischer Prater" and also have a museum
> for Drehorgeln there; instruments are controlled by "Stachelwalze",
> perorated medium and EPROM.
>
> As a part-time member of "Schule des Wienerliedes" (school of viennese
> songs) in Wolfgang's - not Alice's restaurant - of course called "Zum
> Werkelmann" - I made a performance of my MIDI-Karaoke arrangement of
> Viennese songs - and so I got a new friend.
>
> Wolfgang and other people, which have Drehorgeln with software in EPROMs,
> asked me for arrangement of Viennese and Austrian-Volksmusik, they could not
> get from a german company "Hofbauer / Goettingen".
>
> And now I have read the contents of 6 EPROMs and want to find out, what is
> the underlying structure of what byte is controlling what pipe. Of course,
> if there is time when the MEMUSI-meeting is finished by the end of this
> week, I will come close with Wolfgang, and together we will try to find
> out a way of controlling his kind of Drehorgel, I hope without re-inventing
> the wheel.
>
> Maybe you are interested and can help in this non-commercial project.
>
> What about the idea to control a Drehorgel directly by MIDI?
>
> Thank you for given information.
>
> > Deleika Drehorgelbau GmbH
> > Frankenstrasse 7
> > D-74219 Moeckmuehl-Zuettlingen
> > tel: 06928/3434 fax: /4434
>
> I will contact them in the next few days and if there is something for you I
> will let you know.
>
> Also thank you for your hint to the
>
> > automatic-music digest moderated by Jody Kravitz
>
> As an attachment you can find files DJAZZ.MID and DJAZZ.LYR, try and enjoy.
>
> Servus!
>
> Claus
>
Others of you may want to comment on Claus' questions. Jody tells me that Claus is now signed up to this group. I've snipped off the MIDI files, as they I'm not sure if Claus wants them shared with the world.
-- Robbie Rhodes Friday 01 Sept, 6:30 pm.
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[ Editor's Note:
[ For those of you that have WWW access, the URL listed above:
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[ http://www.rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~engler/carousel.html
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[ points to (amongst other things) carousel and band organ pictures
[ that are wonderful. There are many other carousel resources including
[ some "sound bites" that I don't have the setup (yet) to play.
[
[ Enjoy!
[
[ Jody
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