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>I watched this on YouTube:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKejfYzB3ak
>
> Several things strike me:
>
> 1. My god, the picture and sound quality really ins't that hot. :-/
I prefer this one but no video :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvPgKecORl8

>
> 2. You really can't record bass notes, can you?
Why couldn't you? With good microphones you can record very low  frequencies 
(you need excellent speakers to reproduce them though)

> 3. OMG, how many stops are there on that organ?! o_O
A lot :-D

>
> 4. The organist appears to have really short, stubby fingers, and yet he 
> seems easily able to reach all the notes. I have exceptionally long, boney 
> fingers and I'm really struggling to play some of the really wide chords 
> and arpeggios. Is an organ keyboard a different size or something?
>
> 5. Oohhh, so *that's* how you change volume on an organ? You use a 
> different manual?
There are other way as putting some of the pipe sets in a box with mobile 
walls

>
> 6. What are all the metal spikey things dotted around the foot pedels?

A SAM battery to dissuade the player from playing wrong notes (never hear of 
Stalin's Organs?)
No seriousely there are foot commanded stops


> Well, actually, I'm kinda hoping that tomorrow or some day near it is 
> going to involve me playing this bitchin' tocatta on a real pipe organ. 
> Cos *damn*, that would be pretty sweet, eh? And god damn it, if I can 
> absorb 6 pages of dense musical score, learn C++, convince an ardent 
> critic to actually try out Haskell, and apply for an actual programming 
> job involving actual Haskell, all in the space of a month, who's to say I 
> can't find somebody crazy enough to let me play with their organ?
>
> Try and stop me, ******s! >:-D
LOL I hope you do it


Marc

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