Attn: Nick Bird!
That looks like a true button melodica and appears to be diatonic, more or less like a one row... I would be on it but saving for something crazy!
Oh boy, what have we gotten yourself into?
Somewhere I have contact details for a small firm of electro players in Sheffield. I will try and find them and pass them on.
Somewhere I have contact details for a small firm of electro players in Sheffield. I will try and find them and pass them on.
That wouldn't be The Human League, would it?
(Sorry, couldn't resist with that typo!)
Okay Gang,
I have found a firm on the Isle of Man UK called Modelling Timbers. They do nuts and bolts down to 0.6 mm.
The original keys were held in with bent over nails. Took me ages to file the ends off and I decided to replace them with nuts and bolts. Not original but better.
Does anyone know what metal the Organette mouthpiece and bell end are made of?
The platers have said if it is aluminium, they will have to send it somewhere else.
"Organette"?
Really?!
Okay Gang,
I have found a firm on the Isle of Man UK called Modelling Timbers. They do nuts and bolts down to 0.6 mm.
It was only a matter of time....
Still, all the latest research suggests this behavior is quite normal and even part of a healthy lifestyle for men of a certain age...
This seems to be a variation on the Organette theme
Saxaphone tin toy (https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/188500175/vintage-musical-instrument-saxophone-tin?ref=market)
Yes, it is in fact the converse of a sucksaphone.
It is, but I don't think it's bisonoric ( you just put your lips together and blow )
This seems to be a variation on the Organette theme
Saxaphone tin toy (https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/188500175/vintage-musical-instrument-saxophone-tin?ref=market)
It is, but I don't think it's bisonoric ( you just put your lips together and blow )
I don't actually consider these to be toys.
in SE Texas or there abouts.Niiiice place. I've been already. (:)
Some of the gang may remember my Organette saga.
I had new reeds made in Czech Republic and because I changed the key fron C to D the wooden reed block is too small. I know a specialist cabinet maker but he was singularly unimpressed for making me one. I think it might have been beyond him!
Then today Bingo! Well I hope so. A post from Sir John mentioned 3D printing. Now to all you boffins out there, as I have the original block is it possible to have it printed only slightly larger in parts ?
Many thanks Ian. I was thinking more of getting a professional to do it rather than buy a machine.As well as the cost to get the design done (the only cheap way is to do it yourself with one of the free 3D design programs, but this will take you a lot of time), you also need to think about the manufacturing cost which depends on the amount of the material (because this is time in the machine). I looked at getting something similar size to a reed block made and the cheapest quote I could find was around £50 -- and that was for the low-cost additive 3D printers, laser polymerisation was more than 3x this and I guess powder sintering would be more than 10x.
I've Pm'd Mike T.
Hello
I have updated the video comment(s) to give credit to the long list of people involved, with suitable anonymity for individuals (except Theo).
Here is a picture of the tiny, tiny nuts and bolts...or Nick's Nuts... >:E
Hello
I have updated the video comment(s) to give credit to the long list of people involved, with suitable anonymity for individuals (except Theo).
Here is a picture of the tiny, tiny nuts and bolts...or Nick's Nuts... >:E
Oh! I forgot to mention Grape Ape who pushed me into getting it.
AWESOME!!!