20-note Street Organ enclosed in glass

[arburo1]

You really ought to replace the two feeders with two double acting ones, ie, each feeder provides air on both the up and down stroke. That way you'll get four feed strokes per rev and you'll be able to halve your turning speed ( obviously change the roll drive pulleys at the same time! ). The majority of small street organs use double acting feeders and they take up hardly any more space.

[Musicanic]

@arburo1 Does that really work !? Surely, within the same space, each half of the double feeder will pass half the volume of a single feeder, so you don't actually get a greater volume of air. The only thing it will do, if you get the crank timing right, is to even out the air supply a little, which is only worthwhile if you have a small reservoir which may not handle the pulses from two full feeders.

Musicanic

[arburo1]

@Musicanic It does work. Keep the stroke the same and build another bellows below the existing one, closed when the one above is open. You then have a moveable board between two fixed boards, at an angle. The two cranks then need to be at 90 degrees. Look in the books and see how to make feeders. The Fairground Organ by Cockayne is recommended for beginners.

[petermackett37]

They are not whistles,they are stopped flute pipes,organs have pipes and Calliopes have whistles!

[GermanStreetOrgan]

You should make a CD.

[GermanStreetOrgan]

If I were you, I would remove the glass at the front of the organ.

[calliopeguy]

@GermanStreetOrgan The glass just helps keep foreign objects away from the whistle openings.

[GermanStreetOrgan]

See my videos of this song. Arranged by melvyn wright.

[webdext]

I know it would take away a lot of the charm, but it'd be fun to adapt this to use rc servos /w arduino to control the air valves... then you could play MIDI with this thing!

[calliopeguy]

The name of the song is "The Happy Wanderer"

[sunyata76]

Does anyone know the name of the song? It has the same melody of one of my schools' anthems.

[Linkzcap]

"John Smith" - the most simplest name ever

[heavyq]

This is freaking impressive. I wish I could build anything even remotely close to this.

[Zahndethus]

Very impressive

[unsignedchar]

"There's really not that much to it".

[doglyfe4444]

This is amazing! I wish you were my grandpa...

[MrLDiabolo]

@doglyfe4444 ;D

[ata5y]

are you by chance making any more or selling one?

[deviatus]

If this guy ever learns robotics, we are all screwed.

[ytrewQwerty]

@deviatus wooden robots would be awesome

[o0kb0o]

hat's off to you, sir. I'd never in a million years be able to do something like this.

[graftarian]

Must have been a great feeling to hear that play the first time. Great job.

[calliopeguy]

There are many tunes available from vendors in the U.K., all available on paper tape.

[18mtoo]

A good video, well presented of a smashing project.

Are there any repositories of tunes for such devices or do they all have to be cut by the builder

[calliopeguy]

I have to take the blame for poor preparation for the video. It was a last minute decsion to be able to enter it into a contest.

[stoneground1]

Great project!!! Who did the camera work? No offense but they could have done a better job at capturing the machine in it's entirety. But hey nobody's perfect right? haha

Again great stuff!! Keep it up!!!

[cwickenkamp]

Absolutely wonderful! How cheerful, it brings back memories of happier times. Where do you get your music rolls?

[driver1928]

Wonderful!

[kiestikas]

nice work :)