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instrument-a-day 18: cuckoo organ prototype
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Today a single key, tomorrow an octave?
Trying out bellows made with leather, tyvek, and fake leather.
A fan, a box, and some pipes from the February 8, 2009 instrument-a-day: moonmilk.com/2009/02/08/instrument-a-day-8-more-whistles/
This may or may not be the start of something bigger.
The secret to getting a loud clear note out of the soft squishy ocarina was making a sharp-edged lip around the blowhole. As soon as I poked a hole in it, it started to fall apart.
Instrument-a-day 2014 begins, as is traditional, with a whistle. This one is made from a 5 foot long PVC tube.
All 7 years of instrument-a-day are archived on flickr.
Sometimes the old classics are the best.