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Gedackt pipes can be made of either wood or metal, but in modern organ building, and the majority of historical examples, they are made of wood.They are occasionally square, but much more commonly rectangular in cross-section, the mouth being on the narrow side of the pipe.
Because of this expense, pipes with bodies made of wood (usually mahogany) instead of gourd, but with the same classic shape, are sold as calabashes. Both wood and gourd pipes are functionally the same (with the important exception that the dried gourd, usually being noticeably lighter, sits more comfortably in the mouth).
Savinelli churchwarden pipe (above) in comparison to a more "traditional" pipe (below) A churchwarden pipe is a tobacco pipe with a long stem. The history of the pipe style is traced to the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. [1] Some churchwarden pipes can be as long as 16 inches (40 cm).
Pipes have been fashioned from an assortment of materials including briar, clay, ceramic, corncob, glass, meerschaum, metal, gourd, stone, wood, bog oak and various combinations thereof, most notably, the classic English calabash pipe. The size of a pipe, particularly the bowl, depends largely on what is intended to be smoked in it.
The first civic system of piped water in England was established in Derby in 1692, using wooden pipes, [115] which was common for several centuries. [116] The Derby Waterworks included waterwheel-powered pumps for raising water out of the River Derwent and storage tanks for distribution. [117]
Orangeburg pipe (also known as "fiber conduit", "bituminous fiber pipe" or "Bermico" or "sand pipe") is bituminized fiber pipe used in the United States. It is made from layers of ground wood pulp fibers and asbestos fibres compressed with and bound by a water resistant adhesive then impregnated with liquefied coal tar pitch.