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Hello there!  Greetings from a warm and spring-ish Sweden.

I'm about to order the plans and video for both the busker organ and
the "Senior 20" from John Smith.  I guess most of my questions will be
answered when they arrive, but my newborn daughter will eat away some
of the cash I need so I'll have to wait for another month.  My question
is, how the hell does the little thing work without valves?

When I try to figure this out, my head makes the sound of air leaking
through the tracker bar holes.  I'm not a very theoretically thinking
guy, as most of you must have figured out by now, but I like thinking
of myself building good things and now I'm getting nagged by my sweet
lady.

I have made a portative organ some years ago after seeing one at a
medieval fair in the south of Sweden.  Those valves were crude, to say
the least, but they worked.  It was the pipes that gave me a headache
that time.  I usually make bagpipes, flutes and some stringed gems
in my spare time.  Making a monkey organ or -- when I retire from work
in about 35 years -- even a big-big band organ is an old dream I've
nourished through the years.

Please help me regain my sleep at night, or at least the sleep I can
get when the little bobbin in the cradle snoozes away.  ASCII drawings,
simple words, anything.  Anyone?

Best regards,
Peter Andersson

 [ The music roll transport is housed inside a pressurized box,
 [ behind a hinged door.  Air flows directly to the pipes through
 [ the (rather large) holes in the paper music roll.  -- Robbie