no strings attached

Almost a year ago the idea emerged to build a small portative organ.

Must be fun to own one and it certainly presents some new chalenges on the woodworking front.

My starting point has been the description on

http://www.johansorgels.nl/artikelen/bouwportatief/index.htm.

For starters I have tried to build some open (prestant) pipes from pine-wood.

Wood was my first choice but iconography only shows instruments with metal pipes. So trying my soldering skills was inevitable.

I made one pipe (lead 1 mm. as used by the plumber. Too heavy but sufficient to test my skills)

While not totally hopeless this did not seem the best option.