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Title: Florida Tech Solar-Powered Band Organ Concept


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Florida TechSolar-PoweredBand Organ Concept
The Mighty Stinson 2000M-2 MIDI Concert Band
Organ Example Sold for 135,000 for export
  • by Frank R. Leslie,
  • Adjunct Professor, DMES
  • Florida Tech904/2008

2
Background/History
  • While a calliope is identified with circuses,
    Indiana University has one that is used at sports
    events and parades
  • Florida Tech students might construct a band
    organ as a Capstone Project to show the
    integration of science, engineering, and fine arts

Circus calliope, lithograph by Gibson Co.,
1872.
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Introduction
  • Florida Tech has been introducing courses that
    express our motto of High Tech with a Human
    Touch
  • The Music Department can bridge the engineering
    disciplines with some development of an automated
    band organ to play at various events
  • An keyboardist can play it manually
  • Other MIDI-output instruments could play it
  • A computer can play it automatically
  • An auxiliary power source of solar modules can
    provide air pressure and power for actuation
    outside

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Performance Venues
  • Florida Tech has occasional events where students
    playing this organ or the computer automatically
    playing it would be interesting and unique
  • Building dedications
  • Parades for the university, high schools, or city
    events
  • Performance concerts
  • Presidents Picnic
  • Outdoor city events
  • Retirement home shows
  • And many more

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Band Organ vs. Calliope
  • Band organs date from
  • Basically pipe organs, but often expanded to
    include piano, bells, drums, violins, horns,
    chimes, etc., primarily in theater organs
  • Also called festival or fair organs
  • Calliopes are high-pressure steam-powered
    patented 1855 by Joshua Stoddard in New York and
    demonstrated on a train
  • Early steamboats had calliopes to alert a town of
    their arrival
  • Newer versions use compressed air and have less
    range (usually under 1 mile)
  • These are one rank organs one set of whistles

Calliope on the Minnie-Ha-Ha, a stern-wheeler on
Lake George, NY
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Indiana Universitys 1924 Calliope
  • Indiana University plays this steam calliope at
    various events!
  • Shouldnt Florida Tech have one, too?
  • This is direct from steam whistles to sound
  • The range is typically about three miles on a
    quiet day
  • The original Boom Car
  • Too loud for within Melbourne!

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Modern Calliope Example
  • Kitch Greenhouse Steam Calliope at the Ohio
    Historical Society - July, 2006

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Band Organ Example
http//www.freewebs.com/mechanicalorgangallery/gds
f2004.htm
  • Mobile fairground organ and a small horn organ

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Music Playing and Control
  • Keyboards (some 25 to 44 notes) control solenoids
    that open a valve to sound a note, strike a drum,
    triangle, or chime, etc.
  • Early units were derived from Jacquard
    fabric-weaving loom control and used pin drive,
    perforated cards , and later, paper piano rolls
  • Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) is
    now used in new and upgraded bandorgans
  • Conversion from other formats exist and
    MIDI-to-discrete translators can drive solenoid
    actuators with direct current to blow pipes or
    beat drums, etc.

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Music Composition
  • The solenoid valve operation can move quickly,
    and fast music can be performed at normal tempi
  • Music composition software can read MIDI inputs
    from a keyboard or other instrument for
    modification and adaptation for driving the
    instrument
  • A MIDI-output guitar could drive the bandorgan!
  • When the final MIDI file is sent to the band
    organ, it plays automatically as directed by the
    composition orchestration

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Psychological Planning
  • The instrument can impress the audience with
    music not normally associated with circus
    compositions
  • Classical, rock, jazz, popular, bluegrass, etc.
  • The visual design of the pipes for stereo (not
    symmetry) and exterior façade embellishments
  • Two-sided vs. one-sided display (parade trailer
    or fixed full width for against a wall) design
    possible for show flexibility
  • An emotional appeal comes from hearing the unique
    sounds and seeing moving parts as it plays

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Design and Construction Skills, Etc.
  • Engineering Systems
  • Dr. ? and 1 student
  • System design
  • School of Business
  • Dr. ? and 1 student
  • Cost management and schedule
  • Computer Engineering
  • Dr. ? and 2 students
  • MIDI interfaces
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Dr. ? and 2 students
  • Controls and power
  • Façade Art
  • Dr. ?, (C. F?) and 2 students
  • Mechanical Engrg
  • Dr. ? and 2 students
  • Case and mountings trailer tuning
  • Musical Dept
  • Dr. Younkin and 2 students
  • MIDI compositions/organist
  • Physics Dept
  • Dr. ? and 2 students
  • Pipe/percussion design pneumatics
  • Psychology
  • Dr. B? and 1 student
  • Visual/auditory impact design

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System Architecture
  • Keyboard permits manually played recitals
  • MIDI interpreter converts .mid files into
    discrete pipe/percussion actuator signals at 12
    volts d.c.
  • Pipes and percussion provide wide sonic variety
  • Power supply provides sufficient drive for all
    instruments at once
  • Case supports all other components and allows
    moving to a trailer, room, or storage
  • Exterior façade decoration provides visual
    interest and nostalgia
  • Florida Tech and space themed

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Band Organ System Diagram
2 Pipe Rank(s)(24/rank?)
45?
Solar Modules
Air Manifold 12Vdc Valves
Low PressureBlower
12Vdc
Percussion
ChargeController
6
MIDI Files
MIDIDecoder
NotebookPC Computer
13.8 V _at_ 2A
DisplayLighting
12 V Deep-CycleBattery
Piano RollPlayer/Reader
120V Inverter
MIDISoftwareComposer
LinePower Supply
120Vacindoors
Two-SectionCase
1 or 2Keyboard(s)
  • Block diagram

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Budgetary Estimate for Initial Build
Budget Bogey Number   6,000 Bogey plus 30 Margin 7,800
    Totals Comments Notes
Case, Main   298.00 Two-piece 76"H OA x 120"W total x 24" D 1
Cases, Wings   130.00 Two-piece 48"H x 30"W x 18" D 1
Façade   324.00 Six pieces 1/2" plywood textiles 1
MIDI Devices   1,389.00 includes notebook computer 1
Electrical/Air Supply   681.30 low pressure 1
Software   100.00 MIDI S/W, etc. 1
Pipes   216.00 two ranks flutes 1, 2
Percussion   141.00 bass and snare drums plus xylophone 1
Misc   42.00 hardware 1
Labor   900.00 Extent is TBD volunteers? 1
Trailer, Parade/Moving   725.00 utility trailer, basic low-side 3
Lighting   24.00 LED highlighting 3
Solar Power   670.00 optional for parades and other outdoors events 3
Trips   190.00 purchase trips to Sanford FL at RMR 1, 8
Presentation/Publicity   170.00 optional, (?) 3
Main Budget Total   6,000.30 with 30 margin 7,800.39
Main Budget Margin   -0.30 is under budget -0.39
With Donated Labor   5,100.30 volunteer or student project work reduces cost  
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Conclusion
  • Creation of this instrument provides a lasting
    tribute to interdisciplinary teamwork across the
    multiple colleges displayed at university events
  • Periodically, the band organ would be presented
    in local parades and for demonstration at schools
    to stimulate students in pursuing careers in
    arts, sciences, and engineering
  • The system provides an example of how fine art,
    science, and engineering can be blended in a
    unique, entertaining display for public
    entertainment --- High Tech with a Human
    Touch!

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  • Questions or Comments?

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Band Organ Demonstrations, Etc.
  • Solar powered carousel http//www.youtube.com/watc
    h?v5XSshVv5VGk
  • Band organ http//www.youtube.com/watch?vD6bFo5MR
    GQk
  • Hand built Band organ http//www.youtube.com/watch
    ?v4vPg9QjyC-c
  • Band Organ Flutes http//www.youtube.com/watch?vm
    9CgKMrVZCofeaturerelated
  • Bandorgan Ghost Riders http//www.youtube.com/watc
    h?vvEnQ4FsThosNR1
  • Card-reader band organ http//www.youtube.com/watc
    h?vCTwDQCUdp08featurerelated
  • http//mama.indstate.edu/users/nizrael/midis/bigto
    p.mid
  • Organ http//www.youtube.com/watch?vhKDJ6Z_stvgf
    eaturerelated
  • http//www.youtube.com/watch?v9ITZkuqDiBc
  • Organ playing basics http//www.youtube.com/watch?
    vy4-GSlqyYzsfeaturerelated
  • Childs piano http//www.youtube.com/watch?vy81Zu
    9AJlGk
  • http//www.theatreorgans.com/walnuthill/eugenehaye
    k.htm
  • http//www.popsci.com/video/2007-11/breakdown-sing
    ing-tesla-coils
  • MIDIs http//mama.indstate.edu/users/nizrael/midi
    s/

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References
  • www.robertsmusicalrestorations.com
    http//www.bandorganmusic.com/music/sound/Rescueof
    MadamLaura.mpg
  • http//www.doyleintl.com/
  • http//www.stinsonbandorgans.com/
  • http//www.doyleintl.com/band_organ_music_midi_lib
    rary.htm
  • http//www.doyleintl.com/band_organ_pot_10mmd.htm
  • http//www.doyleintl.com/links.htm
  • http//www.doyleintl.com/band_organ_pot_11powerofm
    md.htm
  • http//www.doyleintl.com/band_organ_pot_hme_bopp.h
    tm
  • http//www.theotherpages.org/poems/amv13_3.html
    by Kaliyope Yell Vachel Lindsey
  • http//www.steamboats.org/forum/showthread.php?t9
    16 David Morecroft, calliope builder, Peru,
    Indiana
  • http//www.youtube.com/v/34OXeV_ZrqQhlen Band
    organ Kit Carson Fairground, CO
  • http//www.youtube.com/results?search_queryorgan
    pipesearch_type
  • Tuning http//www.mmdigest.com/Archives/KWIC/T/tu
    ning.html
  • PVC Pipes http//rpartos.org/
  • http//rpartos.org/calliope.html
  • Building http//www.carousels.com/wyman/wympt1.ht
    m
  • http//www.carousels.com/
  • Calliola Project http//www.carousels.com/caliola
    /

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Misc. Websites
  • Organists Guild http//www.spokaneago.org/Februar
    y.pdf
  • Australian Mechanical Organs http//homepage.mac.
    com/ozorgans/
  • http//www.freewebs.com/mechanicalorgangallery/
  • http//www.freewebs.com/mechanicalorgangallery/org
    anfestivaldingles.htm
  • http//www.freewebs.com/mechanicalorgangallery/gds
    f2007.htm
  • http//ago-spacecoast.tripod.com/id6.html
  • http//www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topi
    c55076
  • http//www.fops.org/
  • http//www.staugustine.com/directory/visit/239038.
    shtml Lightner Museum

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Band Organ Construction
  • Busker Organ http//www.ringsurf.com/ring_browser
    .php?id225038
  • Busker Organ http//www.ringsurf.com/ring_browser
    .php?id225043
  • http//www.google.com/search?sourceidnavclientie
    UTF-8rlsGGLD,GGLD2004-07,GGLDenqPVCpipeor
    gan
  • https//mailman.rice.edu/pipermail/childmus/2003-J
    uly/000366.html
  • http//www.geocities.com/hilobayatos/PalaceOrgan3.
    html
  • http//www.oldcrows.net/patchell/OddMusic/OddMusi
    calInstruments.html
  • http//www.rwgiangiulio.com/construction/bcabinet2
    /
  • http//www.youtube.com/watch?v1Ish78C0fek
  • http//www.logosfoundation.org/instrum_gwr/puff/pu
    ff_pvcpipes.html
  • http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairground_organ
  • http//nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/bodinew/Pages/Overview
    .html
  • http//nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/bodinew/Pages/SoundPro
    duction.html
  • http//nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/bodinew/Pages/Pipes.ht
    ml
  • http//nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/bodinew/Pages/MorePipe
    Info.html
  • http//www.apoba.com/PlanningSpaceForPipeOrgans_Wo
    rd95.doc
  • http//diyapason.com/sitemap.aspx
  • http//www.sentex.net/mwandel/organ/organ.html
  • http//home.earthlink.net/anelsen/organ.htm

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Band Organ Pipeworks, Etc.
  • 2x bourdon celeste, 2x violin celeste on melody
    with tremulant, stopped cello accompaniment,
    4', 8', extra 16' stopped on bass also a
    glockenspiel bass drum, cymbal snare drum.
  • Stopped Diapason 8,    Flute 4,   Principal 2,
  •  Stopped Diapason 8,   Principal 4,   Chimney
    Flute 4,   Fifteenth2,   SesquialteraII 
  • Manual I 1 Open Diapason8  2 Clarabella8  3 Princi
    pal 4  4 Nazard2 2/3 5 Fifteenth2  6 Tierce1 3/5 i
     Manual II to Manual I         Manual II
    7 Stopped Diapason 8  8 Salicional8  9 Chimney
    Flute 4  10 Flageolet2  11 Oboe8    Tremulant to
    manuals        Pedal12 Sub Bass16  ii Manual I to
    Pedal    iii Manual II to Pedal  
  • Manual Stopped Diapason 8   Principal4   Chimney
    Flute 4   Twelfth2  2/3   Fifteenth2 
  • Sydney Town Hall 64' stop http//www.ohta.org.au/c
    onfs/Sydney/SYDNEYTOWNHALL.html
  • http//www.arts.ufl.edu/organ/organ_specifications
    .shtml

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Calliope Poem by Vachel Lindsey
  • The correct pronunciation of the word 'calliope'
    has always been disputed some proponents claim
    it should be pronounced 'cal-eye-oh-pee', after
    the Greek muse, while others claim that
    'cal-ly-ope' is correct. A nineteenth century
    magazine, Reedys Mirror, attempted to settle the
    dispute by publishing this rhyme1
  • Proud folk stare after me,
  • Call me Calliope
  • Tooting joy, tooting hope,
  • I am the calliope.
  • After The Kalliope Yell, by Vachel Lindsey, 1913

http//www.jmww.150m.com/Lindsay.html
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The Kallyope Yell by Vachel Lindsey
  • The Kallyope Yell
  • Loudly and rapidly with a leader, College yell
    fashion
  • I
  • Proud men
  • Eternally
  • Go about,
  • Slander me,
  • Call me the "Calliope."
  • Sizz . . . . .
  • Fizz . . . . .
  • II
  • I am the Gutter Dream,
  • Tune-maker, born of steam,
  • Tooting joy, tooting hope.
  • I am the Kallyope,
  • Car called the Kallyope.
  • Willy willy willy wah hoo!
  • See the flags snow-white tent,
  • See the bear and elephant,
  • III
  • Born of mobs, born of steam,
  • Listen to my golden dream,
  • Listen to my golden dream,
  • Listen to my G-O-L-D-E-N D-R-E-A-M!
  • Whoop whoop whoop whoop gtb?whoop!
  • I will blow the proud folk low,
  • Humanize the dour and slow,
  • I will shake the proud folk down,
  • (Listen to the lion roar!)
  • Popcorn crowds shall rule the town --
  • Willy willy willy wah hoo!
  • Steam shall work melodiously,
  • Brotherhood increase.
  • You'll see the world and all it holds
  • For fifty cents apiece.
  • Willy willy willy wah hoo!
  • Every day a circus day.
  • What?

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The Kallyope Yell by Vachel Lindsey, 2
  • IV
  • Every soul
  • Resident
  • In the earth's one circus tent!
  • Every man a trapeze king
  • Then a pleased spectator there.
  • On the benches! In the ring!
  • While the neighbours gawk and stare
  • And the cheering rolls along.
  • Almost every day a race
  • When the merry starting gong
  • Rings, each chariot on the line,
  • Every driver fit and fine
  • With the steel-spring Roman grace.
  • Almost every day a dream,
  • Almost every day a dream.
  • Every girl,
  • Maid or wife,
  • Wild with music,
  • V
  • I am the Kallyope, Kallyope, Kallyope,
  • Tooting hope, tooting hope, tooting hope, tooting
    hope
  • Shaking window-pane and door
  • With a crashing cosmic tune,
  • With the war-cry of the spheres,
  • Rhythm of the roar of noon,
  • Rhythm of Niagara's roar,
  • Voicing planet, star and moon,
  • Shrieking of the better years.
  • Prophet-singers will arise,
  • Prophets coming after me,
  • Sing my song in softer guise
  • With more delicate surprise
  • I am but the pioneer
  • Voice of the Democracy
  • I am the gutter-dream,
  • I am the golden dream,
  • Singing science, singing steam.
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