Music Thing: Paper Pipe Organ

Each week Tom Whitwell of Music Thing highlights the best of the new music gear that's coming out, as well as noteworthy vintage equipment:

It's not new (it was patented in England in 1990), it's not electronic, and it entirely lacks both LEDs and glowing VU meters, but who wouldn't want to build a fully working, user-programmable Paper Pipe Organ? The phenomenally complicated kit is available for £20. On the left hand side is a tiny bellows, in the middle is a pressure indicator, to tell you if you've pumped enough, and on the right hand side are the pipes and the punched-paper roll which chooses the notes. Sweet!

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

1990? It looks more like 1900

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

This is pretty much totally awesome.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

i seriously dig paper kits, but it looks like he's raised the price now to �30, which makes this a pricey gamble on something which i'd be absolutely astonished to have assembled properly and without blood loss and/or x-actocide.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

five? or was that rhetorical? ...it's five, isn't it?

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

I just made my self a Maneki Neko earlier today thanks to Canon (yeah the printer guys!)

http://bj.canon.co.jp/english/3d-papercraft/animal/lucky-cat-money_e.html

nine inches tall and it looks awesome!

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

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