| Author | Message | ||
     Wolfridgerider |
I do know I would like to see one in action and get a class on how it works Enjoy | ||
| Zac4mac |
I'm gonna guess that the holes in the paper let air thru to the "pipes". Turning the handcrank runs the paper transport and a compressor to blow the air. Notice how he seems to crank harder on the strong notes. Also looked like a "volume" control above the paper that might open/close the compressor output. Cool machine , however it works.. now I'll look it up on Wiki and see if I'm close.  Z Can't find one like that, all the barrel organs I find use a... barrel. like a music box. Seems like a mechanical lever, like a player piano would be rough on the paper... (Message edited by zac4mac on January 09, 2016) | ||
| 86129squids |
  I've never seen anything like it either, thanks for sharing! I'm guessing that it's basically a mini version of a calliope, found on many steamships back in the day... they would play the instrument as they approached a port of call to announce to everyone around that the ship was coming in, and commerce would ensue. Wonder what it takes to work up all that sheet music!?! Fascinating. | ||
| Tootal |
I think you called it. Very cool. The paper looks like a large version of the tape feeds we used on old CNC machines! | ||
| 86129squids |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliope_(music) | ||
| Greg_e |
I guess you guys have never seen a player piano before https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_piano When I was young our family went to one of the last places in this country that made the paper rolls, we bought a couple for our piano while we were there. The really cool part was watching the performer play the cutting piano to make the master roll. | ||
| 86129squids |
The hospital where my sis works has a digital player piano in the lobby, very cool. "The really cool part was watching the performer play the cutting piano to make the master roll." I bet! I've always loved player pianos, hard to find nowadays. FINALLY just bothered to do Youtube on my "smart" TV, very cool to hear that through the hi-fi. Probably opened a Pandora's box for boredom though... | ||
| Ourdee |
I've wound up with quite a few friends that can play piano. Always amazes me to watch and listen. One of my nephews plays a pedal powered organ that has leaky bellows. Music is spot on but looks like he is running a marathon while playing. | ||
| 86129squids |
RD- I'm pushing 50 and never learned to play anything, but have been told that I've got an octave and a half reach, with my big MC hands. Always wanted to become a jazz drummer, but one has to be really fit for that... Kenny Kirkland. Chick Corea. Bill Evans. George Winston. Dave Grusin. Did a tribute to Gershwin that everyone should own. Cyrus Chestnut. Diana Krall... Only piano. I've accumulated a TON of folks I really love to listen to and deeply admire for their music. Maybe this year I should try to play at least as well as I type. | ||
| Henshao |
I hate this so much. Smooth Criminal has been stuck in my head ever since Moonwalker on Sega Genesis and now the Amish Smooth Criminal will be stuck in my head forever! Hah, that was one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time. That guy must have the arm of Hephaestus under his shirt. | ||
| Court |
Cyrus Chestnut | ||
| Nuts4mc |
86129....An Evening with Dave Grusin...Memphis Stomp (great!) if you like good jazz piano with the American Song book in mind...check out Beegie Adair, The Real Thing Live... | ||
| 86129squids |
Yeah Court- if you or anyone into jazz gets a chance to see him, GO! I'm down here in E. TN, not a hotbed for jazz action, but NYC and Kansas City surely are. Chestnut plays like nobody else, and surrounds himself with the best of the new generation players. I've got at least 3 of his CD's... "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is my fave. He revisits many of the Vince Guaraldi tunes for the Peanuts specials we all know and love, adds in some other choice Christmas songs, and some GREAT cameos throughout. Strunz and Farah doing "Fur Elise" will make your hair stand on end, and Vanessa Williams with the Harlem Boy's Choir is awesome, plus Manhattan Transfer, and so on... Court, that one's out of print, but should be easy to track down. GET IT. It's good enough to listen to all year round. Another CD of his has him playing a couple of tunes with Anita Baker, she sings "Summertime" and "My Favorite Things" better than anyone else I've heard. | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
My sister has been into steam traction engines since her teens & still is. She & I used to crew on the engines of people we knew at the local steam rallies. I used to help out a guy called Steve Neville who owned an engineering firm but his passion was "Lord Lascelles" (you can google it) which is a Burrell showmans engine. Every year he'd be at the Cambridge midsummer fair with it & a vintage galloper merry-go-round which had an organ built in the middle of it, I became sort of DJ on the organ swapping the books, with marches like "Blaze Away" to "Take the A train". The "books" were about 2' x 1' made of thick card with punched holes & folded zigzag fashion on the long side. I got pretty good at switching them & also knowing which tunes were long enough for me to scamper across the moving merry-go-round and up onto the engine to throw a few shovels of coal in the firebox. Whenever I hear a fairground organ or similar I get that unique smell of coalsmoke & steam & I'm transported back across the decades. | ||
| Court |
I see Cyrus Chestnut fairly often. I have two funny stories . . . . one from each of the last two meetings. I like to do "rooms" . . . . basically parlors in people's houses. One of my favorites is on the block where Miles Davis lived. Just like years and years ago . . . guys like Cyrus and Johnny O'Neal come wandering in late at night and put on the wildest shows you can imagine. It's reminiscent of a time gone by with some of the spectators in Zoot suits and some in tuxedos I ofter go with the tux as a simple sign of respect. These guys were amazing then. They are amazing now. If you need reassurance that time has robbed of us nothing check out Emmet Cohen and Benny Benack. Oh yeah . . . remind me to tell you the stories sometime. :-) | ||
| 86129squids |
Found this today, relevant to the OP: | ||
| Henshao |
Freaking amazing machine. Weak song choice. | ||
| 86129squids |
I kinda thought the same thing... gonna try to remember to look up the vid on my smart TV and get the audio piped through the hi-fi. What I love the most about the contraption is it was designed with a 3D build program, and it looks almost completely handmade. | ||
| Figorvonbuellingham |
My old lady has an organ that's kind of like a barrel. | ||
| 86129squids |
Man, that's a little too wide. Send her back to the cooper. |
