Talk:Musical fountain

Business offers/2 sections
who offers software and hardware that responds to the music automatically without being choregraphed or programmed????? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.60.226.152 (talk) 06:05, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I do not think that this is the proper place to make publicity or business.
 * Returning to the subject: would it be a good idea to split this article into 2 sections, namely
 * chiming fountains that were built before 1900 and operated without electricity
 * musical fountains that use electricity?
 * Mazarin07 00:06, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Delete sections?
Much of this entry reads like a shameless advertisement, particularly the "later fountains" section and Waltzing Water section:

"Waltzing Waters' newest shows are, due to the precision water and lighting effects and the lightning-fast response of the pumps, known by the trademarked term "Liquid Fireworks", and video clips available from their website demonstrate as much. They also provide "Classic" fountains and "Simplicity" fountains, which offer progressively less effects for smaller budgets. Show sizes range from thirty feet up to massive units the length of a football field. Custom shows have been built in separated segments, turned around a gentle corner, even bent sharply into a "U". Waltzing Waters recently purchased the aging Dancing Waters, and has begun renting "Classic" series fountains."

Delete these sections? -Genmaicha, June 2008

needs rewrite/review
this article, while having a nice intro, soon delves into odd publicity speak. Lots of good information but it seems to have been written from a marketing background. Anyone want to take a stab at it (like the WET section first) SpikeJones (talk) 22:11, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Non-Musical but lit fountains
What about fountains which aren't necessarily musical but feature lasers/lights?--Crossmr (talk) 04:30, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

They count as musical fountains as well. Valerius Myotis (talk) 20:04, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Carles Buigas
I believe the architect and engineer Carles Buigas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carles_Buigas) deserves mention in this article. His "Magical Fountain" of 1929 at Barcelona was an awesome achievement at the time and it's still very impressive nowadays. Asiga (talk) 08:45, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

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Article needs work
Huge "Dancing Fountains", "Prismatic Fountains", "Chromatic Fountains" or "Fairy Fountains" were very popular in large (international) fairs since 1884's International Health Exhibition and had many predecessors. The 1891 Czech one can thus hardly be called "a unique European attraction". Probably anything later than 1890 shouldn't really be part of a segment called The earliest choreographed musical fountains.

Since there are way too many fairy fountains to describe, it seems better to create a list of modern fountains and add a segment about the modern techniques. This should also lessen the amount of text that reeks of commercialism.

I'm not sure if I'll find the time and motivation to work on this article, but in my opinion most of it needs to be scrapped and replaced with properly sourced information that describes the development of the different techniques and only highlights the few historical examples that influenced later ones. Joortje1 (talk) 05:42, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Was the Bodor musical well really a fountain?
The descriptions of the Bodor "fountain" that I checked, mostly inform about its architecture and the fact that it played tunes every six hours. The mechanical/musical structure is said to have been hidden in the dome. Does this mean that the hydraulics were not visible? It seems unlikely that any hidden water jets could be sent through a mechanism inside a dome that rests on six pillars. I suppose the pillars could have contained some plumbing and the dome may have contained a musical instrument, but it seems more likely that it was powered by a hydraulic mechanism concealed in the building beneath, with motion transmitted through some lines inside the pillars to some chiming elements inside the dome.

The 1936 replica of the "well" uses an electric organ, which again suggests that there was/is no water visible in this so-called "fountain".

It thus seems that this example shouldn't really feature in an article that essentially informs about choreographed fountains.

Best info I could find is on the Hungarian wikipedia: Joortje1 (talk) 06:54, 1 August 2022 (UTC)