Klarinet Archive - Posting 000438.txt from 2003/11

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Geographic insularism
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 15:19:24 -0500

At 11:05 AM 11/27/2003 -0800, Dan Leeson wrote:
>Mark Gresham wrote an interesting piece about the various geographic
>perspectives of America.
>
>I have nothing to add except to point out that a very large (and
>absolutely delightful) public collection of musical instruments is kept in
>Pine Bluff, Arkansas about 40 miles south of the Little Rock. I visted it
>last summer and found it worth the trip (though I really went to visit the
>grave of an aunt).

There is (or at least WAS 20 years ago) a Musical Museum in the little
backwater upstate New York town of Deansboro. It is home to a collection
of mostly mechanical instruments, Regina music boxes, nickelodeon pianos,
and the like, including the amazing Mills Violano. This device plays (in
one model anyway) TWO violins with piano accompaniment by means of punched
paper rolls and more mechanical linkages and solenoids than you can
imagine, plus an ingenious system of WEIGHTS to keep constant tuning
tension on the strings. Back when I was stationed in Rome, New York with
the Air Force, I made annual pilgrimages there.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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