Slide Whistle Midi Organ

This is a video of an experimental slide whistle midi organ, The hardest part, (making the pipes), was eliminated with these, Right now it only has 13 notes so the tunes are a bit limited. But it only took a few hours to put together and was cheap ! This may turn up in another project soon.

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Music

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• Midi Pipe Organ
• slide whistles
• Band Organ
• homemade organ

[anglerfly]

0:00 12 street rag. how did u make this?

[gsmIII]

@anglerfly Just drilled holes in the top board - epoxy the whistle in it. The bottom side of the board gets sanded smooth - attach a pallet magnet to each whistle -wire the magnet coil to the midi decoder board - connect midi decoder to computer.Connect air supply to wind chest (the black hose). I used a guitar tuner to tune each whistle to make one chromatic octive.Load a midi file on the computer and play.

[tkarches]

@gsmIII could you provide a bit more detail on the system for controlling air flow? I want try something similar with steamboat whistles

[anepictree]

This is wonderful! I am building a small Busker Organ at present but Midi remains a complete mystery to me. It looks great, I love the colours too. Best wishes - Peter

[wurly164]

12th Street Rag

[petermackett37]

Could this be the smallest self-playing organ ever built?,only 13 notes!

[anglerfly]

@gsmIII ok. thanks!

[anglerfly]

@anglerfly That cant be a slide whistle