To follow up on the last post about Aaron Wendel’s “Dwellings” animation: I found his website and spent some time looking at his wonderful drawings and watching his other animated shorts, and came across his Bubble Organ.

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The Bubble Organ is an amazing musical instrument conceptualized and built by Aaron himself for a school project. Built out of discarded furniture and PVC pipe, the Bubble Organ uses various lengths of pipe filled with water to create it’s tones. When a key is depressed, an intake of air (from a balloon!) bubbles the water within the appropriate pipe, creating a certain pitch.