[ Ref. "18-note Movements For New Song Arrangements",
 [ by John Grant, in 18.07.30 MMDigest ]

I purchased one of these 20-note movements when traveling through
Germany -- a very well-built musical movement.  The cards are easy
to punch as the notes are printed on the supplied cards.  The tone
is nice when properly mounted in some sort of music box.

The downside of this movement is that there are _no_ duplicate
(repeated) teeth, i.e., there is only one tooth per given note.
Since this movement uses star-wheels to pluck the teeth, the shortest
distance between repeated notes (on the punched paper) is about 1/4"
-- the distance between the spokes of the star-wheel.  I found this
out after punching my first card and not hearing repeated notes.

What this means is that if you have any repeated notes, the minimum
spacing per smallest "beat" would be roughly 1/4".  This makes for
a very long card strip.  I punched "Ding Dong Merrily On High".
I had to tape enough cards together to make a strip approximately
six feet long!  For paper I used card stock.  To lay out the notes,
I used Midiboek and Noteur programs, both by Piet Paardekam.

The musical results, however, are wonderful.

Jim Quashnock

 [ MMD articles about the Sankyo 18- and 20-note movements are at
 [    http://www.mmdigest.com/Archives/KWIC/S/sankyo.html 
 [
 [ "Noteur" and "Midiboek" by Piet Paardekam are available at
 [ http://draaiorgelweb.nl/software/ 
 [ http://www.draaiorgelweb.nl/software/notdwen.htm 
 [   Noteur - download page
 [ http://www.mmdigest.com/Archives/Digests/201807/2018.07.03.01.html 
 [   Midiboek10 for Windows, By Wiel Geraats
 [
 [ -- Robbie