Vol.20

Otona no Kagaku (Science for Adults) Magazine vol.20

Modified A4/76 pages/On sale June 27, 2008
●Supplement: The Bird Organ

※NOTE: All magazine contents are in Japanese. English versions are not available.

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This Issue’s Special Feature: The Pleasure of Mechanical Music

Table of Contents

The mechanical musical instrument that French noblewomen loved:
Chasing Down the Mysteries of the Bird Organ

Playing around with the supplement.
When the Kuricorder Quartet Met
the “Bird Organ”...

Suntory Hall's pipe organ:
The World’s Grandest Musical Instrument — How It Works

A modern pipe organ played by the leading-edge technology:
The Divine Tonal Qualities that Digital Transmits

Hoping for a world where everyone can hear music:
The Rise and Fall of Mechanical Performing Devices

The country where the orgel was born:
A “Swiss” Orgel Travelogue

By organ builder Naoki Wakita,
A Thorough Inspection of the Supplement

The science of birdsong:
Why Do Birds Sing Songs?

Lost in Dear Old Sights and Sounds with the Otona no Kagaku Model

Hypersonic orgel:
Making a Science of Healing Sounds

How to make an original punch card:
I Want to Play that Song
on the Supplement’s Bird Organ

How to Assemble and Use the Supplement

The Origins of Bioinformatic Science:
Final issue — 1953: A Double Helix
Hung from the Golden Gate Bridge

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