about the wind machine easy to built!

Started by Jean Pierre, March 17, 2022, 03:05:01 AM

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

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
The Lord of the Rings speech by Bilbo

Pete C

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

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