From cold war to flame war (was: Re: Time to chime re: tube synth

[Rick Jansen]

In message <85256818.00509508.00 at galaxy.support.stream.com> you write:
> 
> An artist friend of mine who was going through a Leonardo da Vinci 
> phase asked me if I ever considered building a musical machine made 
> of wooden cogs, one that could be driven by wind or water.  I thought 
> he was insane for asking me that, but now I think it's pretty funny.

Well, such machines exist, exactly as you described, and are used every 
day still, here in the Amsterdam streets:

  http://home-1.worldonline.nl/~marenghi/index2.htm
  http://www.psy.vu.nl/homes/johan/orgels/draaiorgel/orgelbouwdag.uk.html
  http://home.wxs.nl/~schulhan/orgel.html

Rick Jansen
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