about the wind machine easy to built!

[Jean Pierre]

 I talked in my Lap steel workshop "shine on you crazy diamond" about the wind machine or Heliophone

it's an "instrument" or rather a model of sound effect that exists ...since the 17th century! ..and used by Pink Floyd for this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytwyz-NXGdw ...we see the device at the beginning of the song around 19 seconds

17th century ? ...it is used in baroque opera, we find it in some pieces of Jean Baptiste Lully (1632- 1687) or Marin Marais 1656 - 1728, as you can hear in this piece at 16mn 43 seconds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1O4WJfJ9Iw

this video shows how to make a heliophone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRfdR4JvTZg

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[Pete C]

That's very interesting JP. I've never seen a heliophone before !

Pete

[Greeny]

Cool! And educational. Nice one, JP.