Posted By Gilly Margrave The organ building community is up in arms over this bit of Conkers Bonkersness: http://www.edinburghguid...postorder=asc&highlight= Gilly

Posted By Merv Newman It would therefore follow that car batteries will become illegal ?

Posted By TBC At the end of the day - these organ builders have to conform like the rest of industry. I mean how times are you held up in traffic queues and look up the line of traffic just to see another load of organ pipes on their way to the tip. You just get to local amenities waste site and yes you've guessed it the skips are full - organ pipes again. Somebody has been fly-tipping in the country lanes - yes you've guessed it again - pipes from an organ. Is it Friday?

Posted By Robert K Lewis Gilly If the organ builders are so dim as not to seek decent advice then I think they deserve the ridicule they receive. The definitions in the directive for EEE, electrical and electronic equipment, are clear enough, whilst the internal organ/keyboard electronics will rely on electricity to function this is not the case for the pipes. they are oblivious of the source of the air supply therefore outside of the definition. You can make the pipes operate by supplying air to them by any means available therefore they are therefore not reliant on electricity to operate. Simple answer is to stop building the fancy assemblies of electronic keys and stops, returning to a simple fan/pump with an on/off switch. The amount of "nasty" metals for recycling drops dramatically. The old ways are always the best, they are less needy of non renewable resources to repair and recycling pumps, which are large lumps of metal, is much easier than fiddly electrionic circuits. Better still as an addition, I would suggest the erection of a couple of small, vertical rotation, wind generators on the roof. This would decrease the carbon footprint and supply around 85% of the power requirements for the building, inclusive of background heating. Bob

Posted By Jonathan Breeze Hang on a minute, just playing the game and taking this idiocy to it's logical conclusion - If electric pipe organs are to be classified as WEEE, does that mean the original pipe organ suppliers are responsible for the disposal costs?

Posted By Philby' Graffitti in British Library.... sign says: 'Handels Organ Works' To which someone added: 'so does mine' Philby'

Posted By Merv Newman Just heard BBC news. What about the Reeboks bracelets ?