Hupfeld Excelsior-Pan orchestrion plays “The Doll Dance” (close-up on music roll with annotations) скачать в хорошем качестве

Hupfeld Excelsior-Pan orchestrion plays “The Doll Dance” (close-up on music roll with annotations)

The Hupfeld Excelsior-Pan orchestrion plays “The Doll Dance” (1927), Pan roll # 90884. This orchestrion is arguably among the most enchanting and sophisticated ever built. I wanted to capture a performance of this machine with a close-up on the music roll because I have a very special interest in the Pan orchestrions, and, for a machine such as this with so many capabilities, I was curious to see exactly what it’s doing over the course of a song. The Pan roll format uses a lot of multiplexing (where combinations of holes can perform different functions than each hole on its own) to achieve all this. Hupfeld made six regular models of Pan instruments, listed here in ascending order of size and complexity: Model 0 (none still exist) Kino-Pan (one still exists) Model I (one still exists, plus one replica) Model II (none still exist) Model III (one still exists, plus one replica made with some original Hupfeld parts) Model IV (none still exist) And then there is the one-of-a-kind Excelsior-Pan, which seems to be like a Model IV but with the addition of the Bourdon, Vox Humana, and accordions, though the accordions were likely added by a dealer after the instrument left the factory. (The accordions are enabled by a manual switch, and they are not turned on in this performance.) The Excelsior-Pan was commissioned around 1924 for the Dutch hotel and cafe De Postzegel and was completed around 1926. It is currently at the Nethercutt collection in Sylmar, California. I did my best to decode the registration and multiplexing correctly from the music roll, but the complexity of the format makes it no easy task, so there might be an error here and there.