The Fredösphere

You ought to visit Dark Roasted Blend for many reasons (for the retro-futurist art—yummy!—or the totalitarian architecture or non-Egyptian pyramids—yee-ha!) but today especially go see the World's Most Magnificent Pipe Organs.

I had to smile as DRB made a few mistakes with the terminology on a topic obviously unfamiliar to it. Like not knowing how to count how many manuals an organ has, or possibly meaning "ranks" when it says "rows" of pipes. (Where did they get that? The Wikipedia entry cited does not contain that word. Did they translate a foriegn source a little too literally?)

As a bonus, there's a bit of tantalizing information on "acoustic locators" intended to be used as aircraft detectors by a pre-radar Imperial Japanese military. They look like something you'd find if you dissected a 40-ton bat.

Labels: Organ