This is my labour-of-love that I’ve been trying to work on for years. I’m attempting to build a 64 pipe mini fairground busker organ with hand cranked bellows and MIDI controlled electronic pallet magnets within two sealed wind chests. My goal is to be able to compose musical arrangements for the instrument, store them as MIDI files on an iPhone, then decode and play them back through the organ pipes whilst cranking the bellows. If it works, then I’ll be buying new top hat and tails, popping a monkey on my shoulder, and entertaining passers by at village fetes and carnivals for years to come.
