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Organ Pipes of Plastic
By Larry Mayo

Hans van Oost wrote in 020924 MMDigest:

> As I stated before, organ pipes can be made of any material ...

Interesting.  Has anybody made nickelodeon pipes from PVC pipe?
I'm tempted to try it, and wonder if there is any reason why it
wouldn't work.

Larry Mayo

 [ PVC pipe has the characteristics desirable for a resonator:
 [ stiffness and low energy loss under motion.  But other critical
 [ pipe parts of PVC might be difficult to build and adjust.
 [ -- Robbie


(Message sent Wed 25 Sep 2002, 12:34:57 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.)

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