[ A professor of music psychology read about Horst Mohr's roll reader
 [ and computer system in an article in the German journal, "Keyboards,"
 [ and invited Horst to speak at the Colloquium Evening lecture series
 [ at the music college in Wuerzburg. -- Robbie

On, Monday, Feb. 24th, I demonstrated my "Electronic Ampico A" at the
Musikhochschule Wuerzburg.  The audience was about forty listeners: a
handful of professors and some students from the Hochschule and also
from the university of Wuerzburg.

I told the people there about the pneumatic player pianos, from
the beginning of the century until the end of the 20's, and I played
an Ampico A roll directly in the spoolbox of my emulator system
("Liebesleid", played by Rachmaninoff).

I also played some Midi file recordings on their Disklavier grand and on
my synthesizers.  The Rachmaninoff Prelude impressed them, although I am
not yet fully contented with the decrescendo in the fast middle part.
But I am just working it out.  I told them about MMD, Wayne Stahnke,
Robbie and Jody, so don't be surprised if somebody mails you from
Wuerzburg.

In the GSM Journal of October, 1994, I wrote an article about Alistair
Riddell's Meta-Action, and Dr. Hocker wrote a portrait of him.  Riddell
made interesting measurements of hammer speed and the power needed for
solenoid driving.

For the demographics:

Horst Mohr, born December 14, 1930, in Duesseldorf.  In 1945 he put
little brass chains on the strings of his piano, to the sudden surprise
of his lady piano teacher, and from there kept on with all that nonsense
until today.  Some articles about his electronic music projects are even
in serious Computer Journals.  ;-)

Horst Mohr
Koelnerstr.49 51515 Kuerten 02268/1561
mohr@nemeter.dinoco.DE