Calliope #5: Ed Haas (video)

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Ed Haas shows his Calliope #5, a handmade pyrophone, at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. Controlled by a midi keyboard, this wind instrument is similar to an organ, but has the ability to shoot fire if propane gas is used in addition to air when sounding the pipes.

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32 thoughts on “Calliope #5: Ed Haas (video)

  1. Tim Kemp says:

    It looks cool.  Too bad the video didn’t let us hear the instrument.

  2. Denise Tingxi Lee says:

    Yup, the intro is longer than the interview! Why! Can it be a little snappier?

  3. Anonymous says:

    Not a toot nor a single flare!
    And no detail on design or construction, at all…

    Fail!

  4. Liam Kearney says:

    Pyrophone? What pyrophone? Did YOU see a pyrophone. Re-title this Old Bearded Guy Blathers over some nice music. Sheesh!

  5. Ryan Johnson says:

    disappointing. 

  6. Halfvast Conspirator says:

    Where is the part of it actually pyrophoning (or even phoning)?  All talk, no action.

    Lame.Fail

  7. Anonymous says:

    That was as exciting as a pr0n movie with all of the sex scenes cut out.

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    I haven’t been teased this hard since that Junior accounting major took me out for a night of drinks my freshman year ’84.  (back when the drinking age was 18)

  9. Aloïs RENARD says:

    what the point of doing a video about an instrument we can’t hear ?

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    Well, that was 1:22 of my life I’ll never have back…

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  12. Peter Simpson says:

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    Large Hot Pipe Organ

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    ?

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