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Who Hooked Up a Laptop to a 1930s Dance Hall Machine?

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Re: Who Hooked Up a Laptop to a 1930s Dance Hall Machine?

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In Phoenix, the Musical Instrument Museum has "Apollonia" on display which is similarly powered by a computer, you can see it mounted next to the machine in the header image on the page in their website: https://mim.org/mechanical-music-gallery/

I didn't want to be too nosy but based on what I saw when I went last year it looks like it's running Windows 90-something with an ancient interface but clearly it works for their purposes! They use it to demo the machine several times a day.

Re: Who Hooked Up a Laptop to a 1930s Dance Hall Machine?

#12
For some reason, this reminded me of the Japanese "Music Sirens" that were made mimicking the sound production methods of the wartime air raid sirens. If you are in Oita, you can hear one of the few instruments still active every day at 10am when the Tokiwa store opens: https://www.airraidsirens.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26999
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