"The List Keeper Liet told me he doubted that there was any truth to either tale and he'd only preserved the coordinates because he enjoyed the songs from that era which he was sure lay far into the future." said Timothy.
"He knew this from the musical instruments shown and heard and hoped it might inspire me to try and make something similar."
"Did it?" enquired Charles
"I don't think you realize what difficulties that raised. For one thing all I saw was a mans back and occasional glimpses of hands or rather fingers pressing a series of parallel levers that obviously caused the strange looking box to create sounds. From left to right it appeared the generated sounds went from low to high notes and there were further assemblies of knobs that were either pushed in or pulled out to change the tone of the notes in many ways.
There was nothing to see that suggested how the sounds were made except what might only be a decorative array of pipes though the sounds may not have emanated therefrom, perhaps they did, I couldn't tell. If indeed the instrument does make its sound by those pipes then there must be an enormous reservoir or pump to provide sufficient air for the largest pipes.
So I began my research by experimenting with different types of wind instruments none of which sound even vaguely like that curious machine although the bagpipes sound closest because, I believe of their chanter pipes that emit a continuous sound that complements the pipers tune.
Then I began to wonder how one could, for example, have say a dozen bagpipes continuously inflated with their finger pipes controlled by suitable valves controlled through a lever mechanism at which point I decided to look for another solution when time permitted.
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