Hi All,  Well it is still hot and dry here!  My lawn customers are
dropping me like a bad habit!  I would like to thank those of you
who wrote me about yesterdays postings.  Today I have some more web
potpourri.

Site one: How to Build a portative organ.  In a parallel universe there
is a man who thinks like me!  He built a portative organ and now he is
selling his book about building the organ on the Internet.  A portative
organ is a small organ that is placed on the lap (Stop laughing, Robbie
and Jody!), pumped with one hand and played with the other.  This is a
small site but check out the sample pages of his book!

  http://fox.nstn.ca/~swan/portative.html

Site Two: The Theatre Pipe Organ Page.  It is possible I listed this
one in the past, but you see I am old and with this heat my mind has
gone.  This site has MIDI files that emulate a theatre pipe organ and
a band organ.

  http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Chamber/2175/

Site Three: Hurdy Gurdy.  This site explains the hurdy-gurdy.  The link
below will bring you in at the Hurdy Gurdy site.

  http://web.mountain.net/~cbiel/html/HurdyPage.html

Site Four: A set of circuits some useful for producing strange sound
effects.  This is not a Mechanical Site but the circuits can be made
to emulate mechanical devices.

  http://www.uoguelph.ca/~antoon/circ/circuits.htm

Till next time, cruise the sites, and Stay CooooL!

John Conrad Kleinbauer

 [ Oh, I wouldn't laugh, John.  Once I laughed at a piper who
 [ was doing about the same motions with the Celtic pipes.
 [ He almost presented me with a blackened eye!  ;)  -- Robbie