Folded cardboard book-music “Parade of the Elves” (“Heinzelmännchens Wachtparade”)
Folded cardboard book-music “Parade of the Elves” (“Heinzelmännchens Wachtparade”)
Frankfurt am Main
The 1980s
Heinrich Voigt Orgelbau
Cardboard; perforation
Handwritten inscription on the cover: “Heinzelmännchens Wachtparade/Begin”
The cardboard book-music features perforation of fifty-two tracks of round holes – the encoded record of a sequence of control actions for a musical instrument to reproduce the melody of the scherzo march “Parade of the Elves” (“Heinzelmännchens Wachtparade”) by the German composer Kurt Noack (1893–1945).
Musical instrument: fairground organ 662/ММП
1180ММП662/TP