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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>> BTW you should get a tripod :-)
>
> I'm seriously considering that.

They're very useful, and for static indoor use you can get some pretty cheap 
light-weight ones that will do the job well.  If you plan to get more 
serious and actually rotate the camera while it's on the tripod then you 
probably will want a heavier tripod with a smoother head (cheap ones are 
notoriously jerky when trying to rotate the camera in a smooth motion).

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

Hehe, sounds like that could get expensive :-)  For a start, where to place 
the microphoneS?

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> Peddle division:
>   Bordon 16'
> 
> Great division:
>   Open Diapason 8'
>   Stopped Diapason 8'
>   Dulciana 8' (incomplete rank)
>   Principal 4'
>   Flute 4' (incomplete rank)
>   Fifteenth 2'
> 
> Swell division (enclosed):
>   Double Diapason 16' (incomplete rank)
>   Horn Diapason 8' (incomplete rank)
>   Lieblich Gedact 8'
>   Principal 4'
>   Full Mixture III
>   Cornopean 8'
>   Tremelo (sic.)
> 
> Couplers:
>   Swell to Peddle
>   Swell to Great
>   Great to Peddle

In summary, 1 Peddle stop, 6 Great stops, 6 Swell stops, and 4 other 
control knobs. A grand total of 13 actual stops.

The Grand Organ of the Royal Albert Hall has 36 stops *for the peddles*! o_O

The organ above has two 16' stops, one of which lacks the lowest notes 
of the scale. So there is basically only one C0 pipe at 16' pitch.

The Grand Organ has 16' stops. I count 15 of them for the Peddles alone, 
but all five of the organ's divisions contain at least one 16' stop. 
Several divisions also have 32' stops, and there's even a single 64' 
stop in the Peddle division. o_O

(The 64' stop actually uses sum and difference waves to generate the 
pitch, rather than a pipe that is actually 64' long. Apparently only two 
organs in the world have a "real" 64' stop.)

If any of you want to see the full readout for yourselves, it can be 
found here:

http://npor.emma.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=D00733

Other interesting data on the restoration is here:

http://www.mander-organs.com/portfolio/r-a-h.html

And not forgetting that you'll want to look up all those stop names:

http://www.organstops.org/index.html

(Some of these have examples you can listen to!)

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