>> Wise words from Master Coda. (Get it??)

> May the Fourth be with you ;-)

Hahaha! Oh GOD! :-S

And yet, somehow I feel compelled to augment this line further...

>> Mind you, I'm recording a MIDI file. It would be fairly trivial to go back 
>> and edit it to make it sound perfect. But all that really does is 
>> demonstrate that *the machine* can play it OK, which we already know! ;-)

> As this one?
> http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=NGKRu-3zvEU
> 
> Better by Marie-Claire Alain though :-)
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvPgKecORl8

I'm at work; I don't have any sound. (And playing video cripples my PC.)

>> The music you heard is already using both of my hands! (Remember, I don't 
>> have a set of pedals to use.) I could try using my computer to composite 
>> the parts together, but I rather suspect I'm going to run out of octaves.
> 
> There are separate MIDI foot keyboards but usually only one octave range.

I don't have the floor space anyway...

>> (Regardless of how many octaves my keyboard has, the computer only has 
>> samples for 5 octaves. It seems silly to speak of "only" 5 octaves, but 
>> this *is* organ music...)
> 
> Don't you have 32 feet stop samples?

Weirdly no. The range of notes covered just happens to exactly match the 
keys on my particular keyboard. You would have thought, given that it's 
an organ, there'd be a wider range. Go figure!

>> Anybody have any bright ideas about how I get my hands on a real pipe 
>> organ to try this stuff out?
> 
> Make friend with the closest church organist or check if there are organ 
> classes in your area maybe.

Yeah, I guess so...

Heh, if I'm nervous sitting in my locked bedroom with headphones on, 
just imagine playing an instrument that people in the next village can 
hear! ;-)

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