Concept Design 1

By using the photos we collected from museums and brainstorm, we come up with several components designs of the musical machine. During this stage, we are trying to gathering as many ideas as possible. So if you've got any ideas, please email us!

Figure1 is Qiming's design------"steam magnetic", basically we will try to build a steam engine as it is one of the theme of the project that can represent Sheffield Industry. The air come out of the steam engine would be used to play the ocarina. In this device, about 10 ocarinas would be used and each of them would be used to play a single sound. By using the button in the pipe, we can control whether the air can flow into the ocarina. So we will have ten buttons. To automatically control those button, we will use the magnetic wheel, which is the rotating wheel of the steam engine that can be programmed by place magnets in different places.

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