Copper Pipe Improvisation ℗ & © 2007 A.J. Ptak

This sound of artist Anthony Ptak. Liner notes: This work performed by Anthony Ptak on his invented reed instrument called the Copper Pipe. The recording was made in Urbana, IL inside a concrete drainage pipe. I also did several recordings in the Round Barn, but I believe this natural reverberation is from the acoustics of the drain pipe. This is purely an acoustic recording of an improvised composition. No further processing was applied to the original PCM wav file. Recorded using a digital Marantz PMD-600 stereo field recording device using the built-in internal microphones. I built the copper pipe instrument in Barcelona, Spain. It is an open hole instrument with a saxophone reed. Simple means, complex results. The Copper Pipe Project. - AJ Ptak