Re: Metheny - The Orchestrion Tour

[bill bigrig <billbigrig@yahoo.com>]

Howdy,
 Go to "THE HOUSE ON THE ROCK"!!! North of Dodgeville , Wisconsin. You 
will see A BUNCH of REAL orchestrions. They run the mechanisms, but roll a 
tape of what they would sound like if someone had the time to keep ALL the 
instruments in tune. It really is a sight to behold. a whole mechanical 
orchestra, controlled pneumatically,(I believe they used steam power back 
in the day) all running with the music playing along. There is 4 or 5 of 
them there. Along with tons of other oddities. It is really worth the 
journey. I don't know of any place else that has all these things. Along 
with a bunch of other strange mechanical music machines.
Rig

--- On Thu, 1/7/10, james fowler <twostroke@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: james fowler <twostroke@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Metheny - The Orchestrion Tour
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Date: Thursday, January 7, 2010, 7:05 PM
> didn't zappa already do this, at least
> as far as automating everything?  jazz from hell is all
> synclavier.  anyhow, to me it sounds like pmg played by
> robots.
> 
> - jim
> 
>