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You actually can bend organ pipes (called "mitering"), and they will still work. Photo showing this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herschbach_%26_Gir
by mrob 3y ago
You actually can bend organ pipes (called "mitering"), and they will still work.
Photo showing this:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herschbach_%26_Girod_%26_Hundsangen_006.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herschbach_%26_Girod...
You can even have multiple bends to snake it up and down.
- ASalazarMX 3y agoAwesome! Now I only need to find a sensible use for a giant pipe organ at home.
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- tjr 3y agohttps://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/organ.html https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/organ.html
- jll29 3y agoThe art of computer programming is not Donald Knuth's only art to master... Actually vol. 4b of TAOCP has a (combinatorial) exercise about the possible configuration settings of DK's private organ; I think I saw it near page 300 or so.
- macote 3y agoBefore TAOCP came The Art of the Organ-Builder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom_B%C3%A9dos_de_Celles?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom_B%C3%A9dos_de_Celles?wprov...
- perihelions 3y ago- "sensible" There's no such thing as an unsensible hobby. Who could even arbitrate that? Who arbitrates what the meaning of fun is, for you, personally?
- aae42 3y agowives
- sacnoradhq 3y agoHow do your wives get along?
- amanaplanacanal 3y agoIf they don’t, you’re in a world of hurt. Maybe if they live in different houses it could work?
- sacnoradhq 3y agoThey probably also shouldn't know about one other unless it's a poly situation. And then you need a career like a geologist on an oilrig or a submarine naval officer to explain those long absences.
- dheera 3y ago> Who could even arbitrate that? HOAs. They should be outlawed, or at least made legally non-mandatory.
- robocat 3y agoAn example with bent wood pipes: https://www.organclearinghouse.com/3034-zimmer-residence-organ-richmond-va https://www.organclearinghouse.com/3034-zimmer-residence-org...
- InitialLastName 3y agoYou can even wrap the pipe back into a tight coil and add valves so the player can change the length manually[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_horn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_horn
- BizarroLand 3y agoCongratulations, you have just reinvented the sousaphone