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The Moebius Roll
By Philippe Rouillé

In Digest 970110 Robbie Rhodes wrote :

>[ I once flipped the Ampico roll of "Turkey in the Straw", inverting
>[ the notes bass-to-treble; the tune was actually (more-or-less)
>[ recognizable!

May I suggest to try a roll converted into a Moebius strip?

I know there is a score of music which can be put upside down and play the same thing : probably by Mozart (or J. S. Bach ?). If anyone could find the exact reference, I should be very grateful to him (or her).

It is different from a mirror canon or a crab canon (inversus), which may be read without turning materially the score upside down.

Philippe Rouille
(Paris, France)
rouille@cnam.fr
http://www.cnam.fr/museum/musica_mecanica/

[ A music teacher brought his "fiddle" (a Guarnerius!) to class and
[ performed a Mozart canon for us. The manuscript is intended to
[ lie on a horizontal music table, with the teacher and student
[ standing in opposition. Since we had no one to play the student's
[ part the teacher played both parts of the canon simultaneously! (He
[ was formerly the Concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony.) -- Robbie

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