Pat Shingleton for October 7, 2009
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Tuesday’s article told of the intense winds in the Pyrenees Mountains and how Salvador Dali wanted to harvest this wind for a pipe organ. After his death, three Spanish entrepreneurs built an organ designed by Dali. With $1.2 million, engineers at Ramon Llull University in Barcelona built two prototypes. A “wind accumulator” collects the mountain wind in a giant funnel, pushes it into a pressure regulator that blows through 500 pipes of the organ. The accumulator factors the winds unpredictability. It lets the organ play itself on windy days and lets the organist play it on calmer days. The organ was built near Dali’s birthplace of Figueras. German composer Wolfgang Seifen first performed on it in 2004.
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