Legislation re electric-aided bikes
An interesting post from Pascal. From the doc to which he links I learn
European legislation stipulates that only pedelecs “which are equipped with an auxiliary electric motor having a maximum continuous rated power of 0,25 kW, of which the output is progressively reduced and finally cut off as the vehicle reaches a speed of 25 [...]
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Massive cock
Here, in a magical photo by John Robertson. It would be interesting to know which Morris group it belongs to.
We’ve been thinking about cockerel costumes rather like a pantomime horse, large enough to be split into two, large enough to fit a river, a mountain and a wolf (or three children dressed as them) into [...]
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Skinning an organ as a triptych
Mockups from Ancient to Modern
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Carlos Borbolla (1902 – 1990), Cuban dance organ impresario and piano composer
I just found a piece by Miriam Ruiz Pérez in the Cuban national socialist regime’s magazine, La Jiribilla. Apparently Borbolla was born in Manzanillo of a merchant family which made money from the hire, construction and repair of dance organs. As he moved into the business following musical studies in France, he began to replace [...]
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Voice amplifiers
Choosing between expensive and quiet aerobics-style headset+waistband amp and cheap and noisy headset+waistband megaphone.
- 2 comments, including Gigaphone Portable Mega…: Gigaphone Portable Megaphone the best, cheap offer, loud, women children suitable
Catalan animatronics, inc the Turk's head on Barcelona cathedral organ
Working out how to implement two autonomous psychotic dwarf robots.
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Barcelona's Mr Camper Bike is coming for lunch
Here’s another one, Kevin Cyr. The thought of cycling that in even the mildest of winds is quite terrifying. European transport bikes are horrendously expensive and have lots of useless pijo features. How would I go about importing and converting a Chinese transport bike?
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Pierre Charial – combines organ with improvisation
Stuff with Sylvie Courvoisier
In de gecomponeerde muziek is al vaker gebruik gemaakt van mechanisch voortgebrachte klanken. Willem Breuker heeft voor draaiorgels geschreven, Ligeti (wiens werk Charial meermalen heeft uitgevoerd) voor metronomen en speeldozen, Conlon Nancarrow voor pianola’s. Vooral aan de laatste moet je denken als de Fransman de lieflijke tonen van de orgelpijpen opeenstapelt in [...]
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First show – tribute to Restif de la Bretonne / Nouvel Abelard
Based round French motif I’ve been working on -> final barrel organ/box of tricks spec. Adult and kiddies version, with songs, instruments, farting, film etc.
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Willem Breuker barrel organ stuff
Wikipedia it say
1967 Lunchconcert voor drie Amsterdamse draaiorgels
1968 Music for Han Bennink voor draaiorgel
1969 Preparation to voting voor draaiorgel
1970 Een dagje ouder voor klein draaiorgel
I thought off the top of my bonce that he’d done stuff for mixed ensembles, but neither this nor that is on UTube. His normal style is fine, however:
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Bikes
- ‘t Mannetje
- Bakfiets en meer
- Bakfiets.nl
- BikeFix transport bikes
- Christiania
- CM custom builds
- CM links page
- Cycles Maximus, Bath
- Monty Bikes
- Rinky-Dink
- Vélo Mondial
- Velorution
- VeloVision
- Wikipedia freight bicycle
Builders
- Alan Pell
- Castlewood
- Church organ builders and accessory suppliers
- Dutch DIY group
- Godfried-Willem Raes
- Jäger und Brommer
- John Smith Topsy 3
- Laukhuff
- List of builders @ Melvin Wright
- Melvyn Wright
- Nick Williams
- Organ Workshop
- Schlemmer
Building techniques
- Adding MIDI system to existing organ
- Amateur Organ Builders Group
- Cool description of making flute clock
- Dutch DIY group
- Hobby Draaiorgel
- Johan’s orgels
- L’orgue automatique
- Roel Sinke
Community
- British Organ Grinders Association
- Dansorgels
- Draaiorgel info
- Dutch DIY group
- MechaMusica
- Mechanical Music Digest
- Organ Preservation Society
- Symphonion
DIY
Electrics
Link pages
MIDI
Music
Players
Vendors
More stuff
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Shorts
Wardrobe challenges: how to stick a wolf up a chicken's arse
Is this the way forward?
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Cart powered organ
odin.fr. Title: Annie et Artus avec un prototype de 36 Anches Odin. How do you swap the transmission from organ to drive bicycle?
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On this day
Barcelona
Josep Pla, in Palafrugell and thereabouts
- Sorry, nothing doing today.
