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Scale of "Melodicon" Self-Playing Glockenspiel
By Jean Nimal

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Hi.  Did any of you hear about the Melodicon?  This is a small electric
mechanical musical instrument with chimes (11 hammers on brass bars),
very simple, with a very delightful sound, built in Germany in around
the nineteen-seventies.  It plays two Christmas melodies.  I can send
two pictures if interested : nimal.jean@wanadoo.fr

I just found one but, unfortunately, this one is badly out of tune!
Does anyone know the scale of this instrument?  I wish you (each and
all of you) a Merry Christmas.

Jean Nimal
France

 [ Found at http://www.dolmetsch.com/defsm1.htm :
 [ Melodicon -- an instrument, invented by Peter Riffelsen
 [ of Copenhagen (1800), in which tuning forks are struck
 [ by means of keys.
 [ -- Robbie


(Message sent Sat 23 Dec 2006, 16:19:15 GMT, from time zone GMT+0100.)

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