WaldFlöte: Pipe Organ, Upgraded

Dorkbot Edinburgh has done a crazy cool pipe organ project:

The WaldFlöte project is basically a MIDI retrofit of a 1890’s era 16 foot pipe organ. It converts MIDI input into solenoid drive to directly press the keys on one of the manuals – there is no permanent modification to the organ.

Members of Dorkbot Edinburgh have spent the last 7 months or so working on this and we’re pretty pleased with it. It was publicly announced at the Electron Club Open Day on 18th October 2008 in Glasgow.

Here’s my favorite video of the new instrument in action: Waldflöte VS Kazookeylele: