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2003 nceca/fire organ

updated tue 19 mar 02

 

Jennifer F Boyer on fri 15 mar 02


They had something like this at our local New Year's
celebration. It was made by a guy from France. It 's a
huge(tallest pipe about 20 feet) set of pipes like organ pipes,
set up outside. Very organic wacky shape with lots of cut outs
and decoration. Small ones and big ones all mixed up and people
can play it from all sides. No keyboard though: Each pipe is
played by shooting the flames of a kiln burner(hooked up to a
barbecue propane tank) into the bottom. There are baffles inside
that make it moan like whale song. Small ones higher pitched,
large ones lower. A pyromaniac's DREAM....firer's heaven. This
one was played by 4 people at once. The flames would shoot out
the top. I think part of the noise was made by the metal cooling
after the flame was taken away. They had to be careful not to
leave the flame in a pipe too long or all the oxygen was gone
and the flame went out. You all gotta see one of these if you
get a chance.....
Jennifer, remembering my community in a big circle around this
thing in the Montpelier State House lawn, temps in the teens,
snow had just stopped. Everyone in a reverie......Whale song and fire

Bruce Girrell wrote:
>
> Vince Pitelka wrote:
>
> > Louis' Katz's fire organ performance was amazing.
>
> Fire organ??? Could you elaborate please?
>
> Bruce "imagination running wild" Girrell
>
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Thistle Hill Pottery
95 Powder Horn Glen Rd
Montpelier, VT 05602 USA
802-223-8926
http://www.thistlehillpottery.com/

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Jennifer F Boyer on sat 16 mar 02


Here are some Pix of the French Fire Organ:
They are all clickable to enlarge. Weird web site. My browser
doesn't activate the BACK button in it...
http://orgue-a-feu.com/image/palau_pyro.jpg

Jennifer F Boyer wrote:
>
> They had something like this at our local New Year's
> celebration. It was made by a guy from France. It 's a

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Jennifer Boyer mailto:jboyer@adelphia.net
Thistle Hill Pottery
95 Powder Horn Glen Rd
Montpelier, VT 05602 USA
802-223-8926
http://www.thistlehillpottery.com/

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Jennifer F Boyer on sat 16 mar 02


Here's the multi image page I meant to send:
http://www.orgue-a-feu.com/pages/fire_organ.htm

Jennifer F Boyer wrote:
>
> Here are some Pix of the French Fire Organ:
> They are all clickable to enlarge. Weird web site. My browser
> doesn't activate the BACK button in it...
> http://orgue-a-feu.com/image/palau_pyro.jpg
>
> Jennifer F Boyer wrote:
> >
> > They had something like this at our local New Year's
> > celebration. It was made by a guy from France. It 's a
>

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Jennifer Boyer mailto:jboyer@adelphia.net
Thistle Hill Pottery
95 Powder Horn Glen Rd
Montpelier, VT 05602 USA
802-223-8926
http://www.thistlehillpottery.com/

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Jennifer F Boyer on sat 16 mar 02


GEEZ these frame web sites drive me nuts. In the web page below
click on DOCUMENTATION. Some of the pix show people playing the
organ with their burners in hand......the first page does have a
nice description of what the organ sounds like..
Jennifer, sorry sorry...but it's totally awe inspiring

Jennifer F Boyer wrote:
>
> Here's the multi image page I meant to send:
> http://www.orgue-a-feu.com/pages/fire_organ.htm
>
> Jennifer F Boyer wrote:
> >
> > Here are some Pix of the French Fire Organ:
> > They are all clickable to enlarge. Weird web site. My browser
> > doesn't activate the BACK button in it...
> > http://orgue-a-feu.com/image/palau_pyro.jpg
> >
> > Jennifer F Boyer wrote:
> > >
> > > They had something like this at our local New Year's
> > > celebration. It was made by a guy from France. It 's a
> >
>
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> Jennifer Boyer mailto:jboyer@adelphia.net
> Thistle Hill Pottery
> 95 Powder Horn Glen Rd
> Montpelier, VT 05602 USA
> 802-223-8926
> http://www.thistlehillpottery.com/
>
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Jennifer Boyer mailto:jboyer@adelphia.net
Thistle Hill Pottery
95 Powder Horn Glen Rd
Montpelier, VT 05602 USA
802-223-8926
http://www.thistlehillpottery.com/

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Liisa Reid on sat 16 mar 02


All you Pyromaniacs out there,

This is almost beyond belief - you've got to check it out. And to think it was in my
town and I MISSED it. Groan... This one's by some folks from France. A
different concept from Louis Katz's at NCECA. The fire actually goes into the pipes,
creating the sound.

Liisa, in Vermont


Jennifer F Boyer wrote:

> GEEZ these frame web sites drive me nuts. In the web page below
> click on DOCUMENTATION. Some of the pix show people playing the
> organ with their burners in hand......the first page does have a
> nice description of what the organ sounds like..
> Jennifer, sorry sorry...but it's totally awe inspiring
>
> Here's the multi image page I meant to send:
> http://www.orgue-a-feu.com/pages/fire_organ.htm
>
> Jennifer F Boyer wrote:
>
> > Here are some Pix of the French Fire Organ:
> > They had something like this at our local New Year's
> > celebration. It was made by a guy from France. It 's a
>

Les Haworth on mon 18 mar 02


Fear not Liisa, I took digital video of the event and will send the file to
you when I can download it to my computer. (about a week or two) Les H.




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Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 6:09 PM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: Re: [CLAYART] 2003 NCECA/fire organ


All you Pyromaniacs out there,

This is almost beyond belief - you've got to check it out. And to think it
was in my
town and I MISSED it. Groan... This one's by some folks from France. A
different concept from Louis Katz's at NCECA. The fire actually goes into
the pipes,
creating the sound.

Liisa, in Vermont


Jennifer F Boyer wrote:

> GEEZ these frame web sites drive me nuts. In the web page below
> click on DOCUMENTATION. Some of the pix show people playing the
> organ with their burners in hand......the first page does have a
> nice description of what the organ sounds like..
> Jennifer, sorry sorry...but it's totally awe inspiring
>
> Here's the multi image page I meant to send:
> http://www.orgue-a-feu.com/pages/fire_organ.htm
>
> Jennifer F Boyer wrote:
>
> > Here are some Pix of the French Fire Organ:
> > They had something like this at our local New Year's
> > celebration. It was made by a guy from France. It 's a
>

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