I Turn Fan Organs Into Melodicas And Play Melodies

[@iKrizNL]

This one was inspiring.. now I want to work on my own album

[@Fetzenwolf]

i didn't expect this haircut change from short to long. 😛

[@gleaming999]

Surprise Hair Cut

[@OptiVids]

I’ll donate a kidney if you need one. Then you’ll have a special Fan Organ!

[@SoloCulprit]

i love the beat you made , something about it and the layers just hit a nice spot .

[@RadonX9]

love your wall of sound approach to production 💖

[@hrlarson]

This was exactly the video I needed today. Thank you!

[@johntait5141]

Fan organ into melodica conv....Thank you so very much for the quest of the vastness that is instrumentation. Simon, thank you.

[@humanwaveform]

it has such a nice vocal quality to it

[@neaituppi7306]

This monday I am also working hard for next monday.

[@zach4505]

Yeah, this video has value. Thanks for spending the time to put it together. Each device has a different timbre and each had a breath and reed like trait. Its really like a choir. The piano almost seemed like a percussion in comparison to the choir and was a good support for the music.

[@AlexLlama]

CPAP machines are great for this. They are whisper quiet and designed to run for hours.

[@zach4505]

Genius

[@NicStage]

whoa, that's a good idea

[@RuthlessMojo]

Now that melody is going to be replayed in my head all day long. Damn you magpie.

[@stephpicher]

1. thanks for "tuning" in? lol 2. I guess you invented the melodichoir? 3. I have a big fan/chord organ that the school my children went to just put to trash, years ago. It's the small furniture kind. I have this old project of turning it into a melodica/harmonium thing by removing the indeed annoying motor and replacing it with a pedal contraption or something with balloons, or else. I haven't got the courage to put myself to it yet. Depending on the solution I use it might be called a velodica. :) 5. there's no number 4. 6. cheers!

[@SimonTheMagpie]

5. Nice 😆 Sounds really cool with a really big velodica!

[@aaronparys1750]

Awesome!!... Thanks .. Always Inspiring New ideas !!

[@mycosys]

The fan organs were a great invention - for children's toys. I had a little Fischer Price 'Melody Train' one as a kid that was sequenced by a set of pins on a disc

[@SimonTheMagpie]

I have a similar thing but its a bunch of flutes playing the melody based on the disc pins.

[@DetroitMicroSound]

Reminding me strongly of Múm!

[@brianspenst1374]

I have a full foot pump organ that someone converted to a fan organ. One of my winter projects is to try to get some recordings done with it.

[@MreenalMams]

That anti-barber trick really got me

[@jeffreymoffitt4070]

Hmm. A fan organ with a super quiet fan and a lithium battery wouldnt be a bad idea!

[@randyharrigan4790]

10 hours of this riff make it happen lol really catchy

[@digitaldobbie]

I was wondering whether using a PC fan or a drone motor might be a nice quiet option for these kind of instruments.

[@erniemiller1953]

mY MOM HAD A FAN ORGAN, WALL CORDED. She was a virtuoso on it.

[@guitfidle]

I have one of those fan based organs, that plugs in to the wall and has some chord buttons like on an accordion. The fan isn’t quite as bad, but sometimes starts squeaking, so probably has a bad bearing in the fan. I’ve thought about getting another fan and making it an outboard unit so the noisy fan can be isolated from the music. I wonder if lung pressure would be enough for melody plus the chordal section…

[@guitfidle]

Man, this reminds me- I have a second one with a bad fan, a nice Horner melodica, as well as a cheap childrens one that kinda looks like a mini soprano sax. Bright red with blue and yellow keys. The two melodicas sound and look completely different, I think the Horner has metal reeds and the red one has plastic reeds.

[@MirlitronOne]

I thought fan organs blew?

[@organfairy]

They do, but technically they could suck. Some of the old pump organs from the 1800's had bellows that created sucktion.

[@miserirken]

Why are you guys so mean to fan organs? ÚmÙ

[@organfairy]

@@miserirken I was not being mean. When I say 'suck' I am talking about the opposite of blow, meaning that the air passes the other way through.

[@MrCrook]

I wonder if you could stick a computer fan into one of those fan organs?

[@CircularMirror7]

I have an electronic organ like it's medium size has ac motor. Would converting it be possible without having bagpipe lungs?

[@leewot]

Have you considered using a portable air pump ( like a flextail) connected to a melodica ?

[@greyvboat]

can you make a double sided melodica so you can use both hands?

[@garrykellogg3215]

Would PC fans be strong enough for them?

[@WheatlyCrab]

Please help I misread the title

[@wigglyboots2]

Dude these thumbnails lately are awful

[@SimonTheMagpie]

I know. I think I’ll swap this one to my original face. Its so damn creepy I cant even look at myself😆

[@wigglyboots2]

@@SimonTheMagpie Thanks for changing it! Love your videos but the thumbnails were giving me the willies