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I think we did this. Give me a minute. |
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Nope. Every link here is dead and if you search here for "flame organ" you can see the dead links for yourself. |
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Why can't dead links auto-redirect to their wayback machine page once defunct anyway? |
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The flame is a bonus, the sound is generated by... |
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I should change this to buzz bomb organ because
that's what it is. |
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Jerry should used the V1 with many tubes, playing
whatever was the German anthem at the
time. |
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Yes, but could it play the Nyan Nyan cat tune - I think
not? Link to 10 hour loop ver. |
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The link reminds me of an idea I had once to
record
the world's longest song. It was a purposefully
horrible protest piece
against the dumbing down of music and the idea
was to loop it and put it on
some
medium, say a hundred terrabite hard drive. |
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Not sure how long you could get it. By having a
mono track of very low quality you might be able
to get several years in length. Then tell the
Guinness Book
of World Record guys about it
maybe. |
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You could even have an ongoing contest to break
that record as well which would just be a contest
to fill more disk space with more horrible music
than the last guy. Might eventually get into songs
thousand of years long, maybe more. |
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Hey, nobody likes my Buzz Bomb Pipe Organ idea.
Too soon? |
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^ ah yes, Filibuster in G#minor |
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No, it's just not clear how it would work. |
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I mean, OK, a V1 is a metal tube, and so is an organ pipe.
An organ pipe has a perpendicular slot and (I think) some
sort of reed inside it. A V1 has a pulse-jet engine, which
makes a buzzing noise. |
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A tune is built around an ordered collection of notes of
defined pitch and length. |
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So, suppose you build many V1s with engines pulsing at
different frequencies, you have a choice of pitches. But if
you launch one from, say, Picardy to Hendon, then that
one note will be sustained far too long. And if you
arranged the performance to be heard from the target
area, then the percussion would tend to obscure the
melody. |
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You could have an array of pulse-jets held in place, and
play a tune by switching them on and off. But then,
there'd be no role for the fuselage or wings, so you
wouldn't really be playing on buzz-bombs at all. |
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On the positive side, while looking up pulse-jets on
wikipedia, I found this. |
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"Robert Goddard invented a pulsejet engine in 1931, and
demonstrated it on a jet-propelled bicycle." |
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I had never heard of Robert Goddard, but I have a big
croissant for his jet-propelled bicycle. But not for this
idea. |
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//I had never heard of Robert Goddard// American daredevil, his efforts later superseded by Wehrner von Braun (whose brother Magnus actually rode the bicycle, currently on display in a rocket museum in Huntsville Alabama). |
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Coincidentally, there is a damn great NASA space
center called the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. |
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Obviously there's only so many names to go around,
names mix-ups are bound to happen. |
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Link to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. |
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From the link, I note that Stalin's organ pointed upward at 45° |
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...and shot streams of white hot fire. I'd have that looked
into. |
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Organ made of pulse-jet engines... you'd have to be careful
of the bass chords; too many low notes at once, and you'd
take off! |
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[pertinax]; never heard of Robert Goddard?! With all the
blowing-things-up discussed around here, I would have
thought most halfbakers would have a least seen the name. |
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I'd shorten his last name. He's my hero. |
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Plus he's 'Murcan! (see link) |
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Please watch the whole video in his honor. |
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