[dorkbotdc-blabber] Dorkbotalba

[Alberto Gaitán]

This was forwarded by our fearless leader, Douglas Repetto!


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This is a really fun project from dorkbot in Scotland. They've largely 
coordinated it on their blabber list. It's a lot of fun to lurk on all 
of the blabber lists and watch what everyone is cooking up!

douglas


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Subject: [dorkbotalba-blabber] WaldFlöte
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:31:01 +0100
From: Nick Woolley
To: secret mailing list for dorkbot-overlords

Greetings, ye Mighty.

We of the dorkbotalba chapter have been quietly labouring in the dank
rafters of The Forest Café, Edinburgh - once the Edinburgh
Congregational Church, now an anarchic hippie heaven.

We discovered an abandoned 16-foot, 19th century pipe organ, and built a
MIDI-controlled robotic player for it, from a box of solenoids and
copious strips of gaffer tape. Now, the church mice dance again - to Van
Halen's "Jump!"

We call it WaldFlöte, or "Forest Flute", after one of the organ stops.
More details and videos here:

  http://dorkbot.noodlefactory.co.uk/wiki/WaldFlöte

It does need more work - only one keyboard so far - but now it's running
we're looking for further avenues to pursue.  What *is* a MIDI
controlled pipe organ good for, and what good tunes can we give it?

Suggestions invited...