Baritone rackett rank

What if I made a series of 18 rackett-type folded pipes each tuned to a single note to use as an organ rank?

Pretty quirky but do-able.

Racketts are made of solid wood cylinders with 6-8 parallel holes drilled lengthwise all the way through, with a caps at each end serving as alternating bridges, similar to how a series battery bank is wired.

I'd use a capped reed system, where the double reeds live within a boot similar to a reed organ pipe.

Coppy says, 

🎯 Bottom line

This idea is:

✅ mechanically feasible
✅ musically interesting
✅ aligned with historical principles
✅ perfectly suited to MIDI/mechanical control

And most importantly:

it turns a notoriously quirky instrument into a controllable, expressive system

If you want, I can:

• Design a standardized rackett module blueprint
• Lay out your 18-note pitch plan (baritone range)
• Or draft a wind chest + valve system that integrates with Topsy

Because honestly…

You might be about three design sessions away from inventing a Rackett Organ Stop That Nobody Asked For But Everybody Needs.