Hey friends! The Turbinophone has 3 days left until the Kickstarter ends! It would be incredible if you could check it out: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/107298999/the-turbinophone-burning-man-2013 If you can, please share it with everyone you know - it would be a huge help to this project's s...

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Elliot wrote: That would be Craig Breedlove:

Makes me wonder how those cars handled the dunes and loose dust pockets on the playa while at those speeds

Zeke Chaparral wrote:I can envision an enormous flute or sliding whistle connected to an actual jet engine.

That, my friend, I would call a Turbone

lemur wrote:
at 4000 feet elevation, 95F 12% humidity it would take about 4.8 seconds for the sound from 10'oclock to arrive on the 2 o'clock side.

Thats awesome - what formula do you use to calculate that?

Elliott, those are great suggestions. The full project link is here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/107298999/the-turbinophone-burning-man-2013 The project is using only the compressor section of a J79 engine - so the engine is completely non-operational. It uses the resonance of the blades to ...

I am building an art installation for this year which is called the Turbinophone. It is an old fighter jet engine (J79) which is being repurposed into an interactive collaborative musical instrument. I just launched a Kickstarter to raise funding for it, and you can learn more about it here: http://...