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Final Chord Transposed in "Lohengrin Potpourri"
By John Phillips

Hello MMD.  Does anybody besides me have a copy of the U.S. Universal
65-note roll No. 62617, Lohengrin Potpourri, by R. Wagner?  Even less
likely, has anyone actually played it?

The final tune of my copy is "Here Comes the Bride" and then there is
a series of chords that winds everything up.  It all comes to an end
on a long chord that sounds just right .  But then ... there is another
last chord which is the previous one moved a semitone towards the treble.
It sounds quite bizarre, and must have sounded that way to a previous
owner, who has pencilled a very emphatic musical pause symbol next to
the penultimate chord and drawn a line across the roll at the end of
this chord and then written "block" against the questionable final
chord.

I agree with this unknown person but I wonder how a complete chord with
about eight notes in it could get transposed as neatly as is evident
here.  Any comments, anyone?

John Phillips in Hobart, Tasmania


(Message sent Wed 25 May 2005, 07:35:04 GMT, from time zone GMT+1000.)

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