FatherMurphy
Active Member
I have a customer interested in installing a flat Austrian drop (similar to a Brail fire curtain) 20'h x 60' w as a midstage drape, which will be mounted on a dead-hung truss. I'll probably end up doing some sort of lineshaft, but I'm looking into other possibilities to simplify installation or maintenance, or at least provide cost comparisons.
To forestall the obvious questions, there isn't ceiling height to fly or trip, they aren't interested in traveling, and 60' seems just a bit wide for a roll drop.
I have a memory from USITT eight or ten years ago (Toronto or Minneapolis) of a system that was individually controlled winches on each lift line of a swagged Austrian, programmed so that a lift chased around and around a box truss over a booth, but I don't recall who's product that was. I vaguely recall that it was a clamp-on unit with DMX control, but that might not be accurate. I'm not seeing any such products on the websites of the usual suspects (ADC, H&H, JR Clancy, Secoa, Sapsis, Tiffin). Any thoughts or memories?
To forestall the obvious questions, there isn't ceiling height to fly or trip, they aren't interested in traveling, and 60' seems just a bit wide for a roll drop.
I have a memory from USITT eight or ten years ago (Toronto or Minneapolis) of a system that was individually controlled winches on each lift line of a swagged Austrian, programmed so that a lift chased around and around a box truss over a booth, but I don't recall who's product that was. I vaguely recall that it was a clamp-on unit with DMX control, but that might not be accurate. I'm not seeing any such products on the websites of the usual suspects (ADC, H&H, JR Clancy, Secoa, Sapsis, Tiffin). Any thoughts or memories?