Haha, got a laugh out of that one. Thanks for passing it along.<br><br>Jonah<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Alberto Gaitán <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alberto.gaitan@gmail.com">alberto.gaitan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">This was forwarded by our fearless leader, Douglas Repetto!<br>
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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!<br>
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Subject: [dorkbotalba-blabber] WaldFlöte<br>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:31:01 +0100<br>
From: Nick Woolley<br>
To: secret mailing list for dorkbot-overlords<br>
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Greetings, ye Mighty.<br>
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We of the dorkbotalba chapter have been quietly labouring in the dank<br>
rafters of The Forest Café, Edinburgh - once the Edinburgh<br>
Congregational Church, now an anarchic hippie heaven.<br>
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We discovered an abandoned 16-foot, 19th century pipe organ, and built a<br>
MIDI-controlled robotic player for it, from a box of solenoids and<br>
copious strips of gaffer tape. Now, the church mice dance again - to Van<br>
Halen's "Jump!"<br>
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We call it WaldFlöte, or "Forest Flute", after one of the organ stops.<br>
More details and videos here:<br>
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<a href="http://dorkbot.noodlefactory.co.uk/wiki/WaldFl%C3%B6te" target="_blank">http://dorkbot.noodlefactory.co.uk/wiki/WaldFlöte</a><br>
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It does need more work - only one keyboard so far - but now it's running<br>
we're looking for further avenues to pursue. What *is* a MIDI<br>
controlled pipe organ good for, and what good tunes can we give it?<br>
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Suggestions invited...<br>
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.......dorkbot dc: people doing strange things with electricity.........<br>
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