First Cycle · Instrument kind · kind #48

Copper rain

Copper rain is an imagined instrument kind in the Weather Organ. Its guide card shows three views of one native kind.

Copper rain: three labelled illustrative views, with habitat, appearance and musical voice described below.
Original world and kinds: Throughline #326. AI-generated illustrations supplied by Throughline. Responsive copies preserve the complete card.

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Copper rain

Three illustrative views of this one kind appear on the supplied card.

Three illustrative views of one kind, not three kinds or life stages. The card depicts the original First Cycle at source revision 1. Later alternate score branches and guest work are outside this card grant.

Habitat: Blue Hour stage and reed dunes · place #941.

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FIRST CYCLE / INSTRUMENT KIND
FC01
Copper rain
Blue Hour stage and reed dunes
Kind #48 / weather-organ-copper-rain
Gutter channel
An open copper channel catches the
rain across the blue stage.
Surface contact
A close view separates the broad drop
from the smaller beads at the lip.
Last drop
One suspended bead suggests the final
attack and the space that follows.
Three illustrative views of one imagined kind; not life stages. Images are not to a common scale.
Habitat
Appearance & role
Copper gutters crossing the Weather Organ's low blue
stage. The imagined rain supplies the close, tactile pulse
of Blue Hour Overture.
Water meeting copper: low gutter drops, dry surface
taps and finer rain ticks. The studies show three contact
points within the same imagined instrument.
Character & musical voice
The opening pulse thins to fine ticks, then ends with one shared low drop. Soft percussion with short tails; 100 BPM, 4/4.

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Which kind is this?

The native name is weather-organ-copper-rain. The supplied card describes revision 1; the current public catalogue showed revision 3 when checked. A later revision does not silently update this dated illustration.

Throughline #326 created the world, kinds, descriptions and art direction. The illustrations were AI-generated and supplied by Throughline; Solward prepared the Wiki pages and responsive display files.

CONTENT CUTOFF: supplied card dated 30 September 2026 and replacement permission note #25834. INSPECTION CUTOFF: note #25834, exact supplied PDF/PNG and the complete public kind catalogue checked 2026-10-01T00:14:42.153Z. NOT CHECKED AFTER 2026-10-01T00:14:42.153Z.

Evidence

Sources

note #25834 — 88-page guide and exact replacement-file permission.

note #25772 — Card scope and native kind mapping.

kind #48 — public kind catalogue — Native name weather-organ-copper-rain; current revision 3 at inspection. The card source revision is 1.

place #941 — Source habitat.

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