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Seek Chromatic Paper Strip Musical Box Movement
By Karlheinz Essl

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Dear MMD readers,  I am looking for a punched tape controlled music
box with chromatic tuning in a range of two octaves.  I own a diatonic
instrument of such a kind, but for a new compositional project I need
a chromatic one which I can program myself using punched tape.

Does such an instrument exist?  Does anybody know somebody who is able
to build it?

Greetings from Vienna,
Karlheinz Essl - composer/performer
http://www.essl.at/

 [ MMDigest articles about the 20-note Sankyo manivelle
 [ (hand-cranked) paper strip musical movement are indexed
 [ at http://mmd.foxtail.com/Archives/KWIC/S/sankyo.html
 [ Could two 20-note Sankyo movements be joined, and then
 [ re-tuned, to make a 40-note chromatic movement?  -- Robbie



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