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The story of my home made pipe organ (2000)

  As the course progressed, I discovered that some of this stuff was actually logical, and also kind of fun. I found myself using the piano room just to play around.

I spent a lot of the next 4 months fine tuning some of the pipes, as well as adding felt under the keys to dampen the noise they made when they hit bottom. My theory was that the motor's design intended for centrifugal force to clear the carbon dust from the commutator, but at the low speeds at which I was running it, this didn't happen. The pulley on the blower also needed modifications, so I removed the shaft and cut a groove for the O-ring into it on a metal lathe in the student machine shop at the University.

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