[Low-Tech] Musical Instruments: Water & Pipe Organ?

whswhs · 03-31-2014, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by malloyd

But my point is the native scale of the project is "nice building", not a "nice piece of furniture" scale one a lot of musical instruments would be.

Most musical instruments aren't that big. Even a tenor sax, a set of bagpipes, or a sitar is more the scale of a big hand tool or a piece of luggage.

Bill Stoddard

vicky_molokh · 03-31-2014, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by whswhs

Most musical instruments aren't that big. Even a tenor sax, a set of bagpipes, or a sitar is more the scale of a big hand tool or a piece of luggage.

Bill Stoddard

Yeah, I remember that the smallest organs are one-handed instruments, with the other hand pumping the air.

Though the whole question is inspired by the musing about what sorts of organs a clichéd fantasy overlord can afford after being deprived from his prior mega-wealth (i.e. how much wealth he has to reestablish in order to get what sort/size of organ).

Rocket Man · 03-31-2014, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

Though the whole question is inspired by the musing about what sorts of organs a clichéd fantasy overlord can afford after being deprived from his prior mega-wealth (i.e. how much wealth he has to reestablish in order to get what sort/size of organ).

Well, if he's a necromancer, he already has access to vital organs...

scc · 03-31-2014, 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by whswhs

Most musical instruments aren't that big. Even a tenor sax, a set of bagpipes, or a sitar is more the scale of a big hand tool or a piece of luggage.

Bill Stoddard

I'm pretty sure the OP was asking about the sort of ones you install in a wall

vicky_molokh · 03-31-2014, 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by scc

I'm pretty sure the OP was asking about the sort of ones you install in a wall

Actually I'm interested in the full list, if it turns out to be known. The one installed in a wall is the ideal to strive for, but surely our evil overlord will have to get by with what's available before restoring his former glory.

scc · 03-31-2014, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

Actually I'm interested in the full list, if it turns out to be known. The one installed in a wall is the ideal to strive for, but surely our evil overlord will have to get by with what's available before restoring his former glory.

Smaller pipe organs, like say bagpipes as someone mentioned earlier, would use the same pricing as normal instruments

CraigM · 04-01-2014, 06:33 AM

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Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

Actually I'm interested in the full list, if it turns out to be known. The one installed in a wall is the ideal to strive for, but surely our evil overlord will have to get by with what's available before restoring his former glory.

Local TL? Magic available or not? And is the evil overlord cheesy enough to go for the Melnibone [1] option?
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[1] As in Elric; IIRC, his sister was fond of playing a keyboard that was connected to the amplified screams of a few dozen carefully tortured prisoners...

vicky_molokh · 04-01-2014, 07:09 AM

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Originally Posted by CraigM

Local TL? Magic available or not? And is the evil overlord cheesy enough to go for the Melnibone [1] option?
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[1] As in Elric; IIRC, his sister was fond of playing a keyboard that was connected to the amplified screams of a few dozen carefully tortured prisoners...

I'd rather start with the generic per-TL values of Low-Tech, and account for magical ways to ease the construction after that.

Not another shrubbery · 04-01-2014, 07:27 AM

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Originally Posted by CraigM

And is the evil overlord cheesy enough to go for the Melnibone [1] option?
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[1] As in Elric; IIRC, his sister was fond of playing a keyboard that was connected to the amplified screams of a few dozen carefully tortured prisoners...

This is the second time I've seen a reference to this meme. Do you recall the source? I don't remember it from Moorcock's stories, but it has been a while since I've read them.

DangerousThing · 04-01-2014, 11:24 AM

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This is the second time I've seen a reference to this meme. Do you recall the source? I don't remember it from Moorcock's stories, but it has been a while since I've read them.

It was in the earliest one in the sequence I believe. I think it was Elric of Melnibone, but I haven't read those stories in quite a while. They are just too depressing, and for somebody with chronic depression, much too dangerous.

I'm sure if you looked up Elric on Wikipedia it would give you the stories and perhaps a synopsis of each.