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Topic: Home organ builder (Website and YouTube).
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Stephen Furley
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Posts: 3059
From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England
Registered: May 2002
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posted 10-22-2008 01:51 PM
He describes himself somewhere as a mechanical engineer, but is clearly a highly skilled woodworker. He previously worked for TI on DLP technology, which Wouldn't seem to be something which would involve woodworking. His father makes wooden mutes for musical instruments, which is how he comes to have the woodworking facilities available. He says he is not a musician, and can hardly play, yet he seems to play the Bach on one of the videos ok, until he suddenly gets to the point where he says it's too difficult after that. If he doesn't have a musical background how did he select which stops to include in the instrument, and how did he know how to design the pipes for those stops, and the action to operate them? It looks rather like a baroque organ, but I don't think they normally have a pedal board.
Leaving aside the musical aspects, I admire his woodworking skills, and the fact that he built the whole thing, 250 pipes, action, case etc. in three years, while building various other things as well. It's rather like watching the Frenchman making triode valves by hand, which I posted a link to some time ago.
quote: Mike Blakesley Is a pipe organ the largest musical instrument? I think they're fascinating and would love to see the 'guts' of one up close.
This one is about as small as they get, but it's easier to see the action on this than it is on a larger organ. It also involves a great deal of work to build even one this size.
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Monte L Fullmer
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Posts: 8367
From: Nampa, Idaho, USA
Registered: Nov 2004
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posted 10-22-2008 02:02 PM
When I was a freshman in college studying music (after a Music ED degree), we went up into our music hall's organ pipework cavity (Organ was a three manual Wicks with close to 50 stops, thus the cavity was a forest of over 4k pipes) to see the workings of a pipe organ.
Why we went up there is that the console, being movable, is connected to the pipework by a large 4inch flex cable conduit and someone yanked the console around by the conduit causing a rank of pipes to not speak when the drawknob was pulled to have that rank produce its voice when the key was pressed.
Thus. this gave us the experience in helping out the technician to find this problem.
It was quite unique to see the various flute (flue stop pipes) and reed combinations of pipe design.
Also, some of the pipes (the smaller ones) just sits on the wind chests where you can simply take one out and blow into it to produce its assigned voice.
But, when the 8' reeds take off, better cover the ears if you're up there, for that was plenty loud since they had close to 20 inches of wind underneath them.
If you want to see some pipework, should check out the Atlantic City Convention Center and about the Midmer-Losh organ with over 32k pipes in 8 chambers.
Also, the Wanamaker Organ in Philly with over 28k pipes in John Wanamaker's Department Store
-Monte
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