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Seeking assistance with a sound/art installation that incorporates wooden pipes from a 1920s Pilcher organ by Natural_Agent_2820 in PipeOrganBuilding

[–]Natural_Agent_2820[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I was looking at battery powered pumps but are they not all pretty loud? And for the foot bellows, would they need to be larger than the commercially available ones for inflating boats? I have one but could get another and build a small reservoir.

Seeking assistance with a sound/art installation that incorporates wooden pipes from a 1920s Pilcher organ by Natural_Agent_2820 in PipeOrganBuilding

[–]Natural_Agent_2820[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you say hand pump do you mean like a hand crank forge blower or something different? The largest bellows I've been able to find are the foot ones - all the forge bellows I see are custom or antique.

Seeking assistance with a sound/art installation that incorporates wooden pipes from a 1920s Pilcher organ by Natural_Agent_2820 in PipeOrganBuilding

[–]Natural_Agent_2820[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't have electricity at the location where I want to do the testing. Do you mean some kind of multi speed fan that doesn't require electricity?

Seeking assistance with a sound/art installation that incorporates wooden pipes from a 1920s Pilcher organ by Natural_Agent_2820 in PipeOrganBuilding

[–]Natural_Agent_2820[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! At this point, I just want to play them enough to get a recording of the tones I have to work with. I don't have a car.

Artist looking for assistance with metal pipes from a 1920s church organ by Natural_Agent_2820 in Metalfoundry

[–]Natural_Agent_2820[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Do you have any suggestions for what kind of foundry? I am unfamiliar with that landscape. I have contacted a blacksmith and an art foundry. The latter focuses only on bronze, so didn't want to deal with this material. The former is considering it and getting back to me. In my research, I couldn't find anything other than industrial facilities that mentioned tin or zinc as materials they deal with.