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Dear Friend of the mechanical music,

My name is Lenuta Chirita and I am conservator at the "Stefan Procopiu"
Science and Technique Museum in Iasi, Romania, a unit of the "Moldova"
national museum complex housed in the Palace of Culture.

This autumn I will organize an International Festival of Mechanical
Music at Iasi, and I want to know some information about the hydraulic
organ in the collection of the museum, which we know nothing about.

The inscription on the boiler is undecipherable.  We presume that it
had been made in Austria or Germany at the end of 19th century.  I wish
for some information about the hydraulic organ: history and constructor
firms.  If anyone has that kind of information please send me an email
at <palatis@mail.dntis.ro>  Thank you.

Yours sincerely
Lenuta Chirita

P.S.  We have pleasure to invite you to the 2nd edition of
International Festival of Mechanical Music,  8-10 September 2000
in Iasi.

 [ Mrs. Chirita also sent a nice drawing of the hydraulic organ,
 [ which I will place at http://mmd.foxtail.com/Pictures.
 [
 [ Two cylindrical barrels, such as might be used for boiling
 [ clothing, are nested.  The tiny organ sits atop the inner
 [ inverted barrel which floats on the water, and as the organ
 [ sinks slowly the counterweight cord turns the pinned cylinder
 [ inside the organ.  The water barrel is only 30 cm (12") diameter
 [ and 80 cm (32") tall.  The little organ measures 22x20x18 cm
 [ (about 9x10x7 inches).
 [
 [ See the web site of the Romanian national museum complex at
 [ http://home.dntis.ro/~palatis/uk/index.htm  (in English).
 [ -- Robbie