JACKSON PLAYED BY ROBOT BAND

THE DECAP ROBOT BAND PLAYS JACKSON, FROM THE LAKE MICHIGAN CHAPTER OF MBSI www.mbsi.org

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[irkibby]

I wish we could go back to a simpler day when automaton like this were the bees knees- people care too much about computers now

says me (21yrs old...)

[ampicoab]

If you haven't joined a group already, why not do so?  The Player Piano Group (PPG), Musical Box Society International (MBSI), or Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors' Association(AMICA). All have web sites, but then that involves computers. Oh, well. I belong to two of the above and have attended PPG functions in the UK. It is all great fun and computers aren't required.

[Rainmanxxl1967]

Don´t be fooled, the robots aren´t really playing:its a ten voices registered concert organ powered by compressed air and driven by a reel of punched out note stripes like a small barrel organ only bigger until 200 pipes and more are possible. These music automata atracted the crowd at dance halls at the third decade of the last century. Handcranked examples of concert and streetorgans you can sometimes hear on funfairs and at market places around the netherlands. The one here is made by DECAP.

[ampicoab]

No pipes in this machine. Unlike older organs, this one uses a Hammond electric organ. The accordion actually plays and the drummer Robot plays the drums, wood block and cymbal.

The program is the old style book music with holes like a player piano roll.

[pheonex1]

they arent really playing.. thats just gay

[ampicoab]

The drummer is really playing. With his hands he plays snare drum or wood block. One foot plays the bass drum, the other foot the hi-hat.

[MyMorningJacket619]

Looks like a lame Chuck E Cheese Birthday party

[flashhacker328]

only the drummer is playing anything

[KawhackitaRag]

@flashhacker328 The accordion is also really playing, although the organbuilder took the easy way out here and gave the keyboard "hand" of the robot as many "fingers" as there are keys on the accordion! (Oh well, at least that means you never hear the accordionist hit a wrong note!). I think the whole idea is really clever.

[irkibby]

@SeeburgMusic I love you.

[erikals2]

@StinsonOrganGroupie I agree with u, only wish I had one but it would take up one whole wall of my bedroom - plus it would annoy the neighbours :(

[erikals2]

@ampicoab and there's holes in the book music that control the middle robot going up/down?

[mortierfreak]

@robotbetty9

if you fancy buying one of these I can tell you they are still being made by Decap Antwerpen(they have one for sale actually)

[robotbetty9]

I love robot bands! --Robot Betty9

[wurly164]

@SeeburgMusic Well said

[SeeburgMusic]

@91Eric23 Let's put it this way, son... it's SO lame that your white trash ass will never be able to afford one on your septic tank truck driver's salary, that is even if you could find one for sale. That's about how lame it is. I hope this note didn't interrupt you while you were busy fixing a flat on your mobile home and drankin those canned Natty Lights. Jesus Christ.

[StinsonOrganGroupie]

This is a fantastic music machine. I think that Don Stinson should make copies of these. Wouldn't it be great to see one of these at an organ rally playing modern music. A good start has been the addition of accordions to some new Stinson band organs. 

[anglerfly]

@irkibby u should be a coaa member