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Gale Force Drummer is a type of outdoor automata that plays a drum kit as the wind blows harder.
Here's how it works:
There are a number of simple wooden figures that carry out actions in response to the wind driving a propellor blade, connected by a simple crank to a moving component. (like
a saw of or an axe) (see link)
Gale Force Drummer takes this principle of harvesting wind power, but uses it to drive a much more complex figure that plays a mini drum kit. On a calm day the figure taps out a simple regular beat, but as the wind increases, more gears are engaged in response to sets of secondary propellors being activated.
These cause the figure to make additional arm and body movements striking more drums and cymbals, until a mad full blown drum solo is acheived in the event of a gale force wind.
Kits can be fully customised to include congas and other "ethnic" drums, and the gear box controls adjusted accordingly to play a nice samba during the blowing of a warm wind.
Delux version features a double kit, such as used by Ginger Baker. (the figure looks like him too)
Simple figure powered by the wind
https://www.instruc...d-Chopper-Windmill/
[xenzag, Feb 15 2019]
The Maestro
https://thekidshoul...ooner-exploratorium
[xenzag, Feb 15 2019]
Chanson d'automne
https://en.wikipedi...i/Chanson_d'automne
Paul Verlaine [8th of 7, Feb 15 2019]
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How do the secondary props decide when to engage
or disengage? Inertia clutches? |
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Add in a walking arrangement like the Straandbeest
and you could do a windy day parade. |
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The engineers say 'yes' to all of the above. |
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It would be much better if it could play an array of violins, particularly in a summer storm in early June. <link> |
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There's nothing to prevent the same principle
powering different instruments. I just thought of
the wildness of a storm being the perfect driving
force for a long crashing drum solo. |
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A Strandbeest for drums! Excellent! :) |
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Somewhere in the world, there must be someone called Gale
Force |
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A quick search reveals a Gail Force, which appears
to be a trashy film. |
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" I don't believe this, it's practically a porno " says Gail Force in the first few seconds of the film. Trashy is perhaps not the most appropriate adjective - it appears to be from the previous century, and may be from the golden age of porn when the fun was all in pretending to take the plot seriously. |
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Actually, it depends what I'd eaten the night before |
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