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    Posted 7 years ago

    AnythingOb…
    (1778 items)

    Nannah's post showing her old "special purpose" <ahem> copper boiler a couple days ago prompted me to grab a few pics of this old thing I've got hanging around here. Somehow, I'm betting this was also once part of a similar kind of "specialized apparatus"...?? ;-) ;-) :-)

    Kind of a 'double hooded funnel', it looks to be likely handmade, all soldered together from pieces of cut and formed sheet copper. Each 'funnel' is about 16" long and 4" across, and the two together are about 16" across at their widest. The threaded (brass) fitting they are both attached to is 3/4".

    I actually got this (cheap) from eBay several years ago, simply because it looked like it might be an amusing thing to have 'hanging around the organ shop'. Since then it has actually served that purpose a few times, occasionally finding itself appended to something else, in order to cause any odd innocent onlooker to pause and go "huh"...?? <lol>

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    1. racer4four racer4four, 7 years ago
      Lol! Imagination running wild here.....
    2. AnythingObscure AnythingObscure, 7 years ago
      Imagination is one of the 'spices of life' isn't it, racer4four?? ;-) <lol>

      [and at least, hopefully, it's a *plausible* imaginary explanation, unlike certain others occasionally given for things around here, sometimes over and over and over and over again... <groan>]

      Truly I don't know squat about "stills" not to mention how to build one, but if nothing else more than one other person has independently guessed it might be part of one too -- who knows for certain. It's *still* a fun little piece of assorted 'ephemera' to help decorate the rafters over my workbench, methinks... :-) :-) :-)

      Thanks so very much for your kind comment racer4 -- also my appreciation to

      iggy
      Manikin
      fortapache
      Brunswick
      jscott0363
      and
      vetraio50

      for punching the <love it> button! :-) :-) :-) :-)


    3. buckethead, 7 years ago
      Every time I see this passing before my eyes..... I see a compact copperized stereophonic alphorn.
    4. AnythingObscure AnythingObscure, 7 years ago
      <lol> @ buckethead -- actually something along those lines is what drew me to grab it in the first place. Believe it or not, there are really certain sorts of organ pipes which are made in a similar 'conical' shape (even bent over at angles like that, occasionally) though not in pairs...it just seemed like it should/would be a fun 'playtoy' to have hanging around the shop. And it HAS been -- depending on what 'sound producing part' of something else it has found itself temporarily appended to, it can indeed produce a wide variety of 'treble alp-horn' sounds... <LOL>

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