This was one of those spontaneous projects that simply went straight into action. Lee-Kuo used his 3D skills and completely designed the instrument in Cinema 4D using a grid system for the tuned length. After he had completed the model we decided to build it. It’s a slow process but we are making great progress. You can watch a stop animation of this instrument on my YouTube channel, Lee-Kuo created the animation and music for the video. I will update this post when we complete the instrument. Watch the animation here
view from the front ( 3D rendering )
view from the rear ( 3D rendering )
in the process of building
Wow that was unusual. I just wrote an very long comment but after I clicked
submit my comment didn’t appear. Grrrr… well I’m
not writing all that over again. Anyway, just wanted to say superb blog!
Wow the 3d rendering is really impressive! I would love to use those too images of it above in a project I am working on. Would that be acceptable?
Yes you may use the images, we hope to complete a full instruction booklet on how to build the complete instrument
I can see some interesting things happening when you play it.
As the tubes are all the same diameter you have tuned them by length, which would be alright if they all pointed in a straight line towards the listener but they don’t. Viz Pan pipes and Church organs
The notes will all appear at your acoustic output point at different times so you will get all sorts of phase and comb effects depending on which combination of notes you play.
Might be a great sound.
Might not.
Best of luck.
If you buy a load of “Musical” greeting cards you would be able to use the speakers as contact mics and thus record it quite well as long as each mic was the same distance from the top of the tube.
Can you post the measurements?
I am working on a complete instruction manual with all measurements for the pipes and frame. It will take me a while so please be patient. I will upload it for free download as a PDF when completed.