Crazy mechanical music machine

A Weber Maesto Orchestrion at Siegfried's Mechanical Music Museum in Rudesheim, Germany

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[arikreg]

is it MIDI ?



[ZuperKlown]

@arikreg no, MIDI didn't exist until 1982

[esroberto1]

That thing would be playing CONSTANTLY if I had it.

[fairorgan]

No, it's '12th Street Rag'  composed in 1914 by Euday Bowman.

[Thijsie92]

@protoborg Not a calliope, this is an orchestrion. Calliopes are a completely different type of instrument and are generally played by hand.

[protoborg]

@arikreg This is a calliope. It is a VERY old design for what essentially boils down to an overly elaborate player piano. I'm amazed the OP found what appears to be an original calliope.

[FurHusky]

In The Netherlands we have one of these things on every mayor street. old men with ratteling coin boxes ask for small donations while they play this device called a 'Draai Orgel', freely translated to 'Spinning Organ' ;3

[mmmpok]

In the Netherlands we have this thing on the street. We call it an draaiorgel!

With a horse this machine is move down the streets on saterdays.

[1joeyaustria]

@echodelta9 No technology can catch this sound yet. Just listen to a street organ on cd and than hear it live...

[nicerubberboot]

@arikreg The information for the funktion are wholes in an paper reel, like the first computers. The funktion is pneumatik only a small motor exist for the mechanical movement. It´s a air- mechnical midi :-)

[jrw6137]

i saw it live and have to say OMG if i could afford the parts i´d build one

[echodelta9]

Awesome instrument but unlistenable sound. Broken technology. Consumer cameras can't handle any louder sound than talking.