[dorkbotdc-blabber] Dorkbotalba

[Thomas Edwards]

They should alllow people to upload and play MIDI files over the Web!

-Thomas

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Alberto Gaitán
<alberto.gaitan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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> -------- Original Message --------
> 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...
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