>[ Jody will have a web site ready for music roll scales in a few days.
>[ When the Typ Limonaire, the "Big One" is finished I hope you will
>[ send us a photo which we can place at the MMD web site.  Will you
>[ be in the photo, Ingmar, turning the crank?  :-)    -- Robbie

Well, I could make a special photo from the backside, which is normally
not very interesting for postcards, ;-)  but for us, the technicians,
it is!  If it makes you happy, I can act like turning the crank, but
WOW it's heavy!  I never made more than 14 double sides of a book, and
had to finish!  (And I have to turn with both hands if I want to do
so!)

It normally runs by a motor (220V).  Lately we got a motor that can
be regulated, but the regulator is in our 48er.  Still looking for
battery-running motors that do their job for at least 5 hours, can be
regulated in speed, too, and not being too expensive, and not having
too much weight.  (In the last two points I'm also thinking of the
batteries.)

We also would like to run it by solar power; there's enough space on
the roofs of the trailers, but solar-cells are expensive, too.

greetings by(e) InK -- Ingmar Krause

ERlanger drehORGEL-Trio, Familie Krause, erorgelt@erlangen.franken.de

 [ I thought that the street organs in Holland, performing for money,
 [ were required to be turned by hand.  But I saw the wonderful big
 [ "Julius" in Maastricht, powered by a very quiet 4-stroke-cycle
 [ gasoline engine.  I sat on the sidewalk, 3 meters from the organ,
 [ and the engine noise was barely audible.
 [
 [ The solar-powered electric race cars consume, and produce, 1 kilowatt
 [ electric power.  1 horsepower at the axle propels the vehicles at
 [ about 65 kph (40 mph).  On the top of your trailer there is a surface
 [ area equal to the race car, probably even more.  But you need a big
 [ battery to operate after sundown !  -- Robbie