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Hi. Did any of you hear about the Melodicon? This is a small electric
mechanical musical instrument with chimes (11 hammers on brass bars),
very simple, with a very delightful sound, built in Germany in around
the nineteen-seventies. It plays two Christmas melodies. I can send
two pictures if interested : nimal.jean@wanadoo.fr
I just found one but, unfortunately, this one is badly out of tune!
Does anyone know the scale of this instrument? I wish you (each and
all of you) a Merry Christmas.
Jean Nimal
France
[ Found at http://www.dolmetsch.com/defsm1.htm :
[ Melodicon -- an instrument, invented by Peter Riffelsen
[ of Copenhagen (1800), in which tuning forks are struck
[ by means of keys.
[ -- Robbie
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