Organ
The next book I’d like to introduce is Toshikazu Kawasaki’s Hakaseno Origami Yume-Book (A Professor’s Origami Dream Book). I put it on my blog’s side menu, hoping to get it one day; it took me by surprise when I received it as a gift after mentioning it to a friend.
Mr. Kawasaki includes in his book, not only his original models, but also the traditional and even his personal favorite. I found this book fascinating; I was so memorized by the book that I’d completely forgotten about the folding aspect of origami.
When I came upon the Organ model, I had flashbacks of my childhood, about fifty years ago in Japan; I think folding the Organ was one of the first experiences I had with origami in my life. When I sometimes taught origami to children after I moved to the U.S., I always called this model, Piano. But after looking at this book, I realized this model is not at piano at all, but in fact an organ. My reunion with this Organ model, brought back memories of an organ that used to be in my classroom as a school girl; I remember having admiration for my teacher back then.
And one more thing… I noticed that the model I am familiar with (the piano with the keyboard drawn in) is a little different than the original. If you compare the two models, the part where the keyboard would be on the piano model is folded over in half; I can’t recall whether I’d always folded it this way, or if I’d adopted this later on in my life. My guess is that the Piano model was a modification of the Organ model, something that came about with the decreasing popularity and use of organs.






















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