Timeline for Would it be possible to make a brass/wind instrument with a jet engine as the source of airflow?
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| Nov 17, 2023 at 20:46 | answer | added | David Rouse | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 17, 2023 at 17:23 | answer | added | Wayne Conrad | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 17, 2023 at 14:13 | comment | added | user1937198 | Depends on what you mean by jet engine. If you use a miniature RC turbine like modelaircraftcompany.com/newshop/en/home/74-jetcat-p20-sx.html then engineering an organ around it probably wouldn't be very difficult. | |
| Nov 17, 2023 at 9:59 | answer | added | N. Virgo | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 17, 2023 at 5:32 | comment | added | JBH | @Pilchard123 :-) Don't get me wrong, on the geek-o-meter it's pegging the needle. But there's a level of impracticality here that's staggering. If you're anywhere you can appreciate what the jet engine is doing, you're not anywhere where you can hear the violins. Every once in a while it helps to know what the OP's goals are. Can you launch an ICBM horizontally? Sure... what's the point? | |
| Nov 17, 2023 at 3:50 | answer | added | bta | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 16, 2023 at 23:37 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | Of course. However much it lends itself to flowing air, a jet engine is no less a power source than a hand-worked bellows. However, is this a scaled down jet engine - perfectly possible - or will it drown out any sound the instrument produces? | |
| Nov 16, 2023 at 19:50 | answer | added | Questor | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 16, 2023 at 19:18 | answer | added | Mark Foskey | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 16, 2023 at 18:00 | comment | added | Mathaddict | Does the instrument need to use the whole engine or just the axial compressor that blows the air? | |
| Nov 16, 2023 at 16:57 | comment | added | Abigail | You could just power off the jet engine, and have it perform John Cage's 4'33". | |
| Nov 16, 2023 at 16:46 | comment | added | Roland | If you find this topic fun, then why not consider a picolo powered by an atomic bomb or an exploding neutron star. At least 9 people found this question "shows research effort", as seen by the upvotes, which wonders me | |
| Nov 16, 2023 at 16:26 | comment | added | Hearth | Note that "jet engine" doesn't have to mean an enormous engine as used in airliners--there's nothing stopping you from making a tiny jet engine, and people have! | |
| Nov 16, 2023 at 11:09 | answer | added | Richard Kirk | timeline score: 6 | |
| Nov 16, 2023 at 10:19 | comment | added | Pilchard123 | @JBH Surely the point would be "to shatter windows a hundred miles away without humans hearing" | |
| Nov 16, 2023 at 7:39 | comment | added | Vesper | The primary thing here is to cool down the jet engine's exhaust, which can be done considerably easy if the engine is small (which it can be) and the sound producing devices are located at the distance so the gasses would cool down by the length of tube (losing pressure as well, but we don't need too high pressure here). Past that, you can even mount a normal organ to such an engine, provided the engine gives enough airflow to feed the tubes, and it has a valve to protect the organ from overpressure generated by continuously running jet engine. | |
| Nov 16, 2023 at 6:46 | answer | added | EdvinW | timeline score: 25 | |
| Nov 16, 2023 at 6:18 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Nov 16, 2023 at 5:01 | comment | added | The Square-Cube Law | Jet engines are already used as musical instruments. You can hear one in some versions of the beginning of Street Fighter 2 character Guile's theme. | |
| Nov 16, 2023 at 2:24 | comment | added | Atog | See pyrophones. I don't think they've been made for jet engine temperatures and pressures yet. Maybe you could have a combo pyrophone/afterburner. | |
| Nov 16, 2023 at 1:44 | comment | added | JBH | From The Hunt for Red October, "Can you fire an ICBM horizontally? Sure! Why would you want to?" A good-sized jet engine would facilitate the world's lowest octave tuba - but what would be the point of generating a sound that would shatter windows a hundred miles away but humans couldn't hear? | |
| Nov 15, 2023 at 23:59 | answer | added | TheDemonLord | timeline score: 20 | |
| Nov 15, 2023 at 23:27 | comment | added | AlexP | In real life, the gas turbines which power lots of electric power generators are jet engines, just a little modified to work for their intended purpose. And they power lots and lots of electronic musical instruments. | |
| Nov 15, 2023 at 22:23 | answer | added | Wyvern123 | timeline score: 12 | |
| Nov 15, 2023 at 22:16 | history | asked | ConnieMnemonic | CC BY-SA 4.0 |