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Raffin Concert Organ in Erlangen
By Robbie Rhodes

MMD member Ingmar Krause sent us a photo image of the organ which his family, "Erlanger Drehorgeltrio", operates in Erlangen, Germany. It's a beautiful medium-size Drehorgel (hurdy-gurdy) made by the Raffin company. It plays a music roll of only 20 keys, but it's full of pipes. Ingmar admits it's "a bit big for 20 key, but that's why it is called 'Konzert'".

The photograph shows the instrument when it had 67 pipes; since then it has been expanded to 70. The specification is 

  11 Bourdon         *
  11 second Bourdon  *
  11 Violine         *
  11 Clarinette      *
  11 Piccolo         *
   6  Accompaniment
   3  Basses
   3  Bassoon-Basses *

   * = Registers (= registerable)
 The photo image is about 70kbytes (706x667 pixels); Jody has placed it in the foxtail archives at

   ftp://ftp.foxtail.com/pub/mechanical-music/misc/InKKO.jpg

Ingmar said that he hopes the photograph will make me "more enchanted to arrange music for this scale :) "

( I feel enchantment flowing over me now...! ;-)

Robbie Rhodes

(Message sent Thu 20 Mar 1997, 03:56:45 GMT, from time zone GMT-0800.)

Key Words in Subject:  Concert, Erlangen, Organ, Raffin
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