Organ Pipes and more at the Hardware Meetup

If you’ve ever wondered what make those thundering notes you can get from an organ, you’re looking at the answer above. Simon brought it in to the hardware meetup this evening. Apparently he has a bunch of these, as you do. One for every key on the keyboard apparently.

This one is A sharp, as you can see. Ross had a go at blowing into the end of the pipe and it produced a note that might well have been A sharp. The next step is to obtain an air pump and see what kind of notes it can make…

Update: Ross is already there. Take a look at this. If you don’t hear anything it’s because you need pretty good speakers to hear the low note. On headphones it sounds amazing.

If you can make sense of the above we’d love to hear from you. One of our members has a Mitsubishi MC-8000 HiFi dating from 1980. It looks awesome, but it doesn’t work awesome. One of the issues is with the cassette deck. It looks simple enough…. Not. Investigations are continuing.

Ross had brought the next generation of his piano which is coming along nicely. Especially impressive is the way the volume of the notes is controlled by how hard you hit the keys.

Me, I was there with my latest chord keyboard. It’s nearly working….

Next meetup is on Wednesday the 19th of March. Let’s see if we get anything bigger or more complicated turning up then.