Paper Pipe Organ (2019) [video]

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I think the original poster is Aliaksei Zholner [https://www.youtube.com/@nothingssmore] who makes a lot of impressive things out of paper (like engines)

In fact here's the original pre-stolen video on Aliaksei's channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbRgH6C5Tkc

Thanks!

Mods, can we change the URL to this?

I will note that it actually isn't stolen, in the description of Aliaksei's upload:

> This video is exclusively managed by Caters News. To license or use in a commercial player please contact info@catersnews.com...

And in the originally submitted video:

> Caters Clips is owned and operated by Caters News Agency Ltd, an international multimedia content provider. We supply news, picture, video and feature stories to the world’s largest media publishers.

Very cool! Technically this is a reed organ (as noted in the original video), since the sound is produces by a vibrating tongue instead of air resonating along a pipe. The horns on top, which look a bit like pipes, are probably just there to improve the tone a bit.

This reed organ still sounds pretty buzzy, but a full-size one isn't so bad. Rodney Jantzi's website https://www.rodneyjantzi.com features some pretty great recordings, as well as pictures of reed organ restorations. Earlier this evening I finished re-covering the reservoir of a 120-140 year-old reed organ, so reed organs are pretty near to my heart right now.

It made me happy that he tested it with BWV 565.

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