American Queen steam calliope
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Beautiful Ohio and a beautiful sound.Thank you!
3 years ago 6
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Excellent!
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Oh dear, I should've realized that duh. It's set up like the Delta Queen.
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@pianomanthree16 I'll have to look it up,if I still have it.I usually read them and then have a buddy who is still working for the towboat company I did to take them to hand off to towboat crews so they'd have newer reading material.It should be in the September month issues if I am correct about that time frame. Somehow,I don't think it'd be possible to play "Innagaddadavita" or "Stairway to Heaven" on a calliope.Might be fun to try but I know very little about actually playing music.
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That's cool. Yes, the steampunk music types definitely need to talk to this man.
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I sure wouldn't suggest handing them such an antique and telling them to mod away! No, they need to build one from scratch, or from other existing (non-priceless, non-antique) parts.
According to pianomanthree16 (few posts down), a guy named Dave Morecraft of Peru, Indiana still builds them. He could build one for a steampunk band.
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@SailorBarsoom They don't build things, they destroy priceless antiques.
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My mom's granpap made one of these out of car horns and hubcaps. She said he played in a whorehouse in Salt Lake City. The place was owned by the church and so the cops never busted it.
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Am I seeing this correctly? Why isnt there any steam coming out of the highest whistles when you hit them?
cleannewyork 9 months ago
@cleannewyork The manifold that Dave Morecraft built for this calliope is horseshoe-shaped, and the the whistles are arranged diatonic-opposing. This means that, starting in the middle of the manifold, each successively higher pitch is placed on the opposite side. So one octave would look like this: C' A# G# F# E D C, C# D# F G A B (with the lowest note, C, in the middle).
pianomanthree16 9 months ago
@cleannewyork In other words, every-other "highest whistle" is out of view on the other side of the manifold. Only about half the whistles are visible in this video, the starboard side of the manifold.
pianomanthree16 9 months ago
My most recent "Waterways Journal" has a very informative article on calliopes and the people who played them. 44 kesy meant that some notes couldn't be played so the player had to think about what to play next.
doughesson 1 year ago
@doughesson Which WWJ issue had the article, and who was the author? I'm a steam calliope researcher (alluded to in my other videos) and I'm amazed this one fell under my radar!
pianomanthree16 10 months ago