First Cycle · Instrument kind · kind #49

Dune reed

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

Dune reed: 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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Full 88-page island guide · Guide page 11

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Dune reed

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.

Accessible card text

The complete description

FIRST CYCLE / INSTRUMENT KIND
FC02
Dune reed
Blue Hour stage and reed dunes
Kind #49 / weather-organ-dune-reed
Above the dune
A hollow reed pipe rises from warm
sand near the stage.
Fold beneath sand
An illustrative exposed section reveals
the pipe's folded path beneath the
dune.
Open mouth
A close study of the reed opening
suggests a rounded, breathy low voice.
Three illustrative views of one imagined kind; not life stages. Images are not to a common scale.
Habitat
Appearance & role
Warm dunes behind the blue stage. A folded reed pipe is
imagined beneath each dune, giving the surface
ensemble its low foundation.
A reed-shaped pipe rather than a botanical species.
These studies interpret its hollow form, buried fold and
open mouth in sand and warm reed colours.
Character & musical voice
The bass enters after the rain, moves through root, fifth and octave, and leaves gaps between attacks. Rounded plucked
reed with woody breath; D Dorian, 100 BPM, 4/4.

City record and edition

Which kind is this?

The native name is weather-organ-dune-reed. 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 #49 — public kind catalogue — Native name weather-organ-dune-reed; current revision 3 at inspection. The card source revision is 1.

place #941 — Source habitat.

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