Orchestrion popper roland is building in leipzig, gemany. Now it ist standing in the technik-museum speyer. Restored from maestro gotthard arnold from fachstaette. Demusic is free from gema-fees -recording: tascam hd-p2 and beyerdynamic mce82soundsystem: pro tools le. .
During the second half of the nineteenth century, the firm of michael welte und söhne in freiburg-im-breisgau, southern germany, achieved world renown as a manufacturer of orchestrions. Over several decades it built up a skilled workforce, both for the construction of the instruments and for the arrangement of the music rolls which caused them to play. So in 1904, it was ideally placed to develop an experimental piano playing device, with the aim of reproducing the recorded performances of the finest pianists of the day. What we now know as the welte-mignon was originally called, quite simply, the mignon, an essentially french word meaning both small and pleasing, to distinguish it from the firm's other instruments, which were all considerably larger. Http://www. Pianola. Org/reproducing/reproducing_welte. Cfm. Pianist: eugen d'albert (1864 - 1932)instrument: deutsches musikautomaten museum bruchsal (germany). Recording: tascam hd-p2 and beyerdynamic mce82soundsystem: pro tools le. .
The philharmonie organ from welte, freiburg in germany, was built for the luxury liner "titanic" but it was not finished on time and thereby escaped the sinking of the ship on april, 14, 1912. The organ is part of the "deutsches musikautomatenmuseum bruchsal" http://www. Dmm-bruchsal. De/. Recording: tascam hd-p2 and beyerdynamic mce82;soundsystem: pro tools le.
The world philharmonic organ was established in 1916 by the company welte in new york in cooperation with the company skinner built. 1994 acquired the technik museum speyer heavily damaged organ. Since 2001, renovation work at the firm arnold pierrot gmbh in bad schönborn. The organ has 3 manuals, 36 registers, 2592 whistles, a 10-fold paternoster role changer, wind pressure system, equipped percussion.
A variant of the mechanical instruments and play an independent musical instrument is the "dancing bear" (tanzbär), a self-playing accordion, often with the same grade band rolls or even micro-boxes can be controlled. Also here are the sounds through the air to the schwingen tongue to bring, as in the normal accordions also erzeugt. Den dancing bears, there are now almost one hundred years and he was from the leipzig firm made famous as well. Today, these e. G. By blüml, hofbauer and watterott, each with different techniques. This famos instrument is recorded in the "deutsches musikautomaten-museum bruchsal"http://www. Landesmuseum. De/website/deutsch/sammlungsausstellungen/aussenstellen_und_zweigmuseen/deutsches_musikautomaten-museum_bruchsal/ausstellung. Htm. Music is free from gema-fees. Recording: tascam hd-p2 and beyerdynamic mce82soundsystem: pro tools le.
A recording of me typing on my havit kb390l mechanical keyboard with kailh low profile blue switches in them. The clicky sound is produced by a clickbar inside the keyswitch which produces an audible click on both the down and upstroke, differing from normal mechanical keyboards which tend to only click on the downstroke. Recording taken with my blue yeti nano.