Warp wrote:
>> As you can see, this is... quite hard! o_O
> 
>   Still much better than anything I could ever have the patience to learn...

Yeah. Heh. It's been, what, 3 *months* now... and I still haven't 
finished learning it, much less practising it to perfection! :-S

I've got one final video I might upload. The two posted so far are from 
the 18th of October. I went back the next weekend and got some slightly 
better pictures. I'll see about editing it down for posting...

[What you *don't* see is that the bit I just posted is edited down. It's 
actually about the 5th runthrough. Hence the frustration displayed at 
the end. Like "damnit, this it the 5th take and I still can't play it 
straight!"]

>   Btw, who is the cameraman?

My dad.

(The shaking and the weird camera angles are due to his arm going numb 
with the intense cold. Plus... well have *you* tried holding your arm 
above your head for 5 minutes? The blood drains after a while...)

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Invisible wrote:
> The bizzare thing is that it's difficult to play it slower - I keep
> forgetting where I've got to! ;-)

So true, that does happen sometimes.

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Invisible wrote:
> (Heee... I sound like an expert! Wikipedia FTW!!)

Add some proper sources and you could EXPAND the Wikipedia article...

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Invisible wrote:
>>   Dulciana 8' (incomplete rank)
> 
> A rather pleasent, quiet stop, with a mellow tone. Sounds almost
> "distant". It is "incomplete" in that there are no pipes for the bottom
> octave.
> 

Spanish "dulce" = English "sweet".

Italian, or whatever language the stop names come from, is probably similar.

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Invisible wrote:
> Mike Raiford wrote:
>> So, the string division on this organ has dozens of stops?
> 
> This is from the famous Wanamaker, the largest playable pipe organ in 
> the entire world. And yes, it is famed for its *vast* string division. 
> (The organ I played doesn't even have a single string stop. But then, 
> it's a *church* organ rather than a *theatre* organ.)

To illustrate:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ02Lu8Zuzw

[Be sure to click the high-quality one. The sound is a bit better.]

Doesn't sound much like a "pipe organ", does it? Sounds more like an 
entire orchestra. That's the difference. It's designed to emulate other 
instruments as well as being a pipe organ.

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> Invisible wrote:
>
Eh you're becomming an organ expert :-D
Very instructive

Marc

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m_a_r_c wrote:

> Eh you're becomming an organ expert :-D
> Very instructive

Yep. And I learned it all from Wikipedia about 3 weeks ago! ;-)

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> Now with two hands:
>
> http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ou5rQuzfyP4
>
> As you can see, this is... quite hard! o_O

Yers I can see, and it looks very good, unfortunately no sound on this 
machine at work so I'll have to have a listen later.

BTW you should get a tripod :-)

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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> (Heee... I sound like an expert! Wikipedia FTW!!)
> 
> Add some proper sources and you could EXPAND the Wikipedia article...

Go read it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_console

Not much I could add, eh? ;-)

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scott wrote:

> BTW you should get a tripod :-)

I'm seriously considering that.

And also bringing a decent friggin microphone to the next session! >_<

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