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Mozart Compositions for Player Organs
By Dan Wilson

Claus Kucher wrote:

> In the "Classical MIDI Archives" - section 'Mozart' - I found the
> following pieces from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart especially written for
> organ machines:
>
>    Andante fuer Orgelwalze, KV 616 (H.Heldstab)
>  { Andante for organ cylinder }
>      "http://www.prs.net//m/8/kv616.mid"
>
>    Ein Stück fuer Orgelwerk in einer Uhr, KV 594 + KV 608 (F.Raborn)
>  { A piece for action of an organ in a clock }
>      "http://www.prs.net/m/7/wamk594.mid"
>      "http://www.prs.net/m/7/wamk608.mid"

K608 is I think called a "Fantasy for Mechanical Clock Organ" in English.
There was an 88-note roll of it made by QRS for Rex Lawson's Perforetur
series.  Sooner or later this will be available from Universal Music
Rolls (Mike Boyd) at Rye.  Lasts about 9 minutes.  I believe the original
clock had a spiral barrel to accommodate this.

Note to Robbie: I see we're getting umlauts now.  Do these French
accents come through too ?  [ -snip snip-  Yes, but see the following ]
That's what my Windows character map gives me here.

Dan Wilson

 [ Editors note:
 [
 [ Yes and no, ja-ein, oui et non !  Last night I neglected changing
 [ the special German characters to their two-letter equivalents, and the
 [ result was "bounce" messages from ISPs who complain whenever 8-bit
 [ ASCII is sent to them.  I happened to edit last night on the PC, using
 [ the DOS standard character set, and the text from Claus was displayed
 [ entirely correctly by DOS.
 [
 [ _However,_ it is pure _garbage_ on my Macintosh tonight!  All
 [ correspondents writing e-mail letters with special foreign characters
 [ must use either Mime encoding or Hypertext html to assure correct
 [ delivery to recipients.  The receiving end must also be prepared for
 [ Mime or Hypertext. This way any language can be sent to any computer,
 [ even Chinese ideograms!
 [
 [ Sadly, the ancient Unix system used for the Digest hasn't Mime, and
 [ so for now we use just the 7-bit "low ascii" character set, and we
 [ apologize for the spelling compromises in non-English words.
 [
 [ -- R@bb^&    ;-)


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