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Organ Pipes
By Richard Moody

Replying to excerpts from previous posts:

> If you use one pipe on, say, the Diapason stop to tune another one,
> like an Aeolian, they will slightly pull together as you get near the
> correct tuning!

> Yes, organ pipes will pull towards each other, ...

I am curious to know, how do you know this?  Can you hear it by ear
or only by a tuning machine?  Or is this for pipes in close proximity
(less than an inch apart with their speaking sides facing each other)?

Richard Moody


(Message sent Tue 14 Aug 2007, 06:16:26 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

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