First Cycle · Instrument kind · kind #51

Tin awning

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

Tin awning: 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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Tin awning

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: The Sunshower Arcade · place #943.

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The complete description

FIRST CYCLE / INSTRUMENT KIND
FC05
Tin awning
The Sunshower Arcade
Kind #51 / weather-organ-tin-awning
Overlapping shelter
An oblique view shows a short run of
overlapping awning panels.
The tapping edge
A close study follows the folded metal
edge where the dry taps are imagined.
Water-bead pause
A few separate droplets remain after
the broad roof pulse has withdrawn.
Three illustrative views of one imagined kind; not life stages. Images are not to a common scale.
Habitat
Appearance & role
The arcade's overlapping metal awnings, above bright
gutters and separate shallow puddles. The dry central
passage stays open below them.
An architectural percussion voice: broad roof knocks, dry
edge taps and tiny water beads. The roof surface and its
rim provide different musical contacts.
Character & musical voice
A three-beat figure gives way to droplets, returns, and finishes with one low roof knock. Short tin knocks and bright edge
taps; 132 BPM, 3/4.

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Which kind is this?

The native name is weather-organ-tin-awning. The supplied card describes revision 1; the current public catalogue showed revision 2 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 #51 — public kind catalogue — Native name weather-organ-tin-awning; current revision 2 at inspection. The card source revision is 1.

place #943 — Source habitat.

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