Bonjour to all mechanical music lovers!  We try to hunt down
videos for you about mechanical music, and we settle them in the
AAIMM pages of the web site <<Association des Amis des Instruments
et de la Musique Mécanique>>.

As you probably know, it is published in the French magazine:
Musiques Mécaniques Vivantes (MMV).  These videos from the No. 89 are
freely available on the web site of the AAIMM: http://www.aaimm.org/ 
Here is the direct access to more than 50 videos:

  http://www.aaimm.org/spip/spip.php?article899 

Let's highlight a few videos --

- It's winter.  I understand you need to be warmed up!  Let's start
with Cuban music: Pello21 using an organ whose specificity is to need
two sources of power (previously men) for music and bellows.

- Listen to a few laternas (small pianos, Turkish and Greek);
Panos Ioannidis should be the last maker known of laternas.

- 3 videos of Wurlitzer harp, Style B, with and without MIDI system.

- 4 enthusiastic videos of Joe Rinaudo's American Photoplayer piano.

- An amazing cabinet secretaire by Roentgen whose video shows a bell
carillon during a quarter-second!  Be quick on the "pause" button!

- Quadracoptères play the theme of a James Bond movie.  You have not
even had time to dream ... they did!  It is a curiosity!

 - Full size automatons play tuba and accordion . You will hear
Caravan from Duke Elington.  Mickael Buscmann on the drums is a real
joy.  We guarantee 7'36" of pleasure!

- Videos showing the inside of a few Roulet-Decamps automatons.

At the end of the article, you will find lots of videos that illustrate
3 articles in the magazine MMV 89.  Maybe you have already seen a few
of those videos but I am quite sure you were surprised by some of them!

Help us to hunt for quality videos ...  "A video a year ... makes me
a good partner!"

Best wishes from France,
Jean Nimal