Rev. Robert Linnstaedt writes about his hand-punched manivelle. I have a rather
similar item. This is the "SANKYO Computer Music." A modern, streamlined plastic
case (with a Scots tartan top design!) and card strips 2 3/4 x 16 1/3 inches,
some pre-programmed and others blank for self-arrangement. The cards are  marked
"Punch'n'play fun." Not an antique but a nice curio. And it isn't a manivelle,
but driven by a small electric motor. Unlike Robert's apparatus it wasn't
reduced to $450. From memory it was $5 at a garage sale . . .

Tippoo's Tiger is indeed in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Interesting to read that it may have been worked on by the great organ-building
Willis family. However in recent years it was restored by Arthur Ord-Hume.
Twenty years ago I asked him what it sounded like. "Bloody awful!" he replied. I
asked if he'd had the sounds analysed by an expert Indian musicologist. Yes, he
had. And how did the expert think it sounded, I asked. "Bloody awful!" again was
the reply.

I read a definition of a musicologist the other day. "Someone who can read music
but can't hear it."

michael woolf¶
new zealand