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Wind chest

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Rudolph, Koenig, Rudolph Koenig
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A windchest is a wooden box that holds air to be delivered to organ pipes, which are inserted in valved holes. These two examples were used in lectures to demonstrate the different characteristics of organ pipes of varying sizes and shapes.

Wind chest by Rudolph Koenig
Fig. 1: Wind chest by Rudolph Koenig
Large wind chest by Max Kohl, with a random selection of organ pipes
Fig. 2: Large wind chest by Max Kohl, with a random selection of organ pipes

Text, picture & figures by Brian Tinker, republished with the kind permission of Case Western Reserve University and William Fickinger, Prof Emeritus of Physics.

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