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Yes, yes a photo please! Om -----Original Message----- From: Ztars'R'Us <harvey@cts.com> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Date: Thursday, October 19, 2000 9:50 AM Subject: Re: mechanical looping instruments (was singing bowls) >related to this topic which someone may find interesting. Sorry if it's not: > >We built a pair of instruments as museum exhibits (toys) that consisted of >a cylinder about 2' x 6"D that oerated like a programmable music box. >Holes >were drilled in 15 columns (rings), 24 holes per column. Pegs could be >inserted by the users at any location. Each column related to a note(s) >and >because of the fixed rotational rate of the cylinder, the tempo was fixed >with 24 beats available per measure. I set up the 15 notes in various >scales, pentatonic and such, to avoid annoying children with too much >chromaticity. This way it's easy to create interesting melodies without >any >knowlege of music. The user sets up the pegs where the want and then >presses a button to make the "OrchestraRoller" rotate. I also added a >button that when pressed would add in a harmonized note in another voice. >I >think we put a Yamaha DB50 card inside one unit and A Roland SCD-15 in the >other. The thing rocked on a drum patch. > >The intention of the exhibit was to demonstrate basic musical elements to >children: rhythm, pitch, melody, harmony. One of these is in San Diego and >the other is in Texas somewhere, I believe. >Really a contraption. I'll hunt around for a foto. >tnx, harvey > >At 04:43 AM 10/19/00 -0300, you wrote: >> >> >>>Anyway, I am very curious about what is happening, and sorry if this >>>thread is wearing thin for some of you. I find the singing bowls >>>fascinating and fun, and it is my nature to try and figure out how >>>things work, especially sound >> >>oh, we are here to learn. >> >>Isnt the bowl the oldest looping instrument? >>As your hand makes a looping movement it creates a drawn... >>Well you can achieve this with a cat, too :-) >> >>Rich: >> >>>This discussion made me think of what a bowl would sound like and >>>what frequencies could be generated by making some sort of pneumatic >>>device that would hold the bowl (small suction cup at the bottom?), >>>and spin a dowel around the lip, and you could vary the speed of >>>rotation, and the pressure applied to the bowl. >> >>sure, we can make a lot of mechanically looping instruments still. >>A painter friend suggested to make an endless rainmaker: >>A circular tube on a bycicle wheel, maybe wind driven. >>In the tube there are stones or rice and the walls are fitted with >>varying tongues so it keeps changing sound while it turns... you can >>nearly compose like for a music box, but its still much more >>irregular and softer sounding... >>-- >> >> >> ---> http://Matthias.Grob.org >> >> >> >http://www.starrlabs.com >