Physicist makes muon chamber sing

This Monitored Drift Tube detector, consisting of argon-CO2-filled aluminium tubes with a wire down the centre of each, will track muons in ATLAS; Tiecke used a single tube from one of these detectors to create the pipes in his organ.

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Former NIKHEF physicist Henk Tiecke plays his homemade barrel organ at an event at NIKHEF celebrating the first shipment of completed muon chambers to CERN in October 2005.