Petter Fielding single cylinder pump, 2016

At the New Year’s Day ‘Crank Up’ event, I made two recordings of this particular machine, the 1932 single cylinder Petter Fielding: this recording, which was as I found the machine running, and a second one after Brian the volunteer sped it up for some variety. The Petter fielding is one of the bigger machines in the second shed and here maintains a reliable and reassuring speed, with satisfying polyrhythms created by the varying parts (which I cannot identify, sorry). There is a lot more information on the various machines on the Museum of Power website.