Am Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:12:38 +0100 schrieb Orchid XP v8:

>>> http://blog.orphi.me.uk/archives/333
>> 
>> Congrats! Sounds like fun!
> 
> Hell yeah! :-D
> 
> Seriously, you gotta try this. ;-) Just find an old church somewhere and
> ask 'em if you can fiddle with their organ.

Nice! I was hoping for the recording though :). Actually sorry, after 
some googling I found, that "Lieblich Gedact" was not a typo for 
"Lieblich Gedacht" (which one could translate to "lovely thought of" 
denken->gedacht - could have fitted in some song, I was not aware that 
you were talking about registers) but for
"Lieblich Gedac(k)t" which is derived from gedeckt and stands for a pipe 
which is closed at the top and therefore an octave or quint lower than a 
pipe of the same lenth wich is open. And that is spelled with hard "k".
So you control "lovely closed pipes" with it.

> 
> I *did* briefly muse to myself tonight that maybe I could attempt to
> construct a pipe organ of my own... but then I concluded that while a
> proof-of-concept device wouldn't be too difficult, making a real musical
> instrument would be absurdly hard.

I found this guy quite impressive:

http://www.sentex.ca/~mwandel/organ/organ.html

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On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:12:38 +0100, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>> Congrats! Sounds like fun!
>
>Hell yeah! :-D
>
>Seriously, you gotta try this. ;-) Just find an old church somewhere and 
>ask 'em if you can fiddle with their organ.

I'm glad you enjoyed yourself.
Do I not get a "thank you" for suggesting a church organ? ;)
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Regards
     Stephen

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Florian Pesth wrote:

> Nice! I was hoping for the recording though :).

Yeah, me too. :-(

Unfortunately, my computer stubbornly claims all the DVDs are blank and 
won't read any data from them.

> Actually sorry, after 
> some googling I found, that "Lieblich Gedact" was not a typo for 
> "Lieblich Gedacht" but for
> "Lieblich Gedac(k)t" which is derived from gedeckt and stands for a pipe 
> which is closed at the top and therefore an octave or quint lower than a 
> pipe of the same lenth wich is open. And that is spelled with hard "k".
> So you control "lovely closed pipes" with it.

Yeah, the Organ Stop Dictionary lists both spellings. (It claims that 
"Gedackt" means "covered" and "Lieblich" means "lovely" or "lively".)

Sure enough, it is one of the nicest solo stops on the organ. (Although 
the bass notes sound horrid. The higher notes are quite flutey and sweet 
though.)

> I found this guy quite impressive:
> 
> http://www.sentex.ca/~mwandel/organ/organ.html

Heh, nice.

I figured it wasn't work even trying to build a decent key action. (And 
you have no idea how hard it is to play a keyboard with a bad action! 
That was the major problem with this organ - and that was built by a 
reputable London organ builder. Admitedly 150 years ago, but even so...)

Now if I could find a way to construct electronic, motorised air valves 
and control them from my PC... ;-)

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Florian Pesth wrote:

> I found this guy quite impressive:
> 
> http://www.sentex.ca/~mwandel/organ/organ.html

Forget that, what about this?

http://www.rwgiangiulio.com/

o_O

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Stephen wrote:

> I'm glad you enjoyed yourself.
> Do I not get a "thank you" for suggesting a church organ? ;)

Heh. Thanks. ;-)

(Although actually, I played that organ 20 years ago, and that's what 
made me pick that particular organ. They were friendly 20 years ago, and 
it seems they're still friendly today... heh.)

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> Florian Pesth wrote:
>
>> I found this guy quite impressive:
>>
>> http://www.sentex.ca/~mwandel/organ/organ.html
>
> Forget that, what about this?
>
> http://www.rwgiangiulio.com/
>
> o_O


It's such a piece of work !
Did you see there are downlodable 3D files?

Marc

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>> Forget that, what about this?
>>
>> http://www.rwgiangiulio.com/
>>
>> o_O
> 

> It's such a piece of work !
> Did you see there are downlodable 3D files?

He designed it in a full 3D CAD environment. He constructed it from 
multiple different kinds of wood. It actually has multiple ranks which 
really do produce different tones. It has a peddleboard - a concave 
radial, "to AGO specification".

Truely this is "a piece of work"! O_O

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On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:32:26 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>Stephen wrote:
>
>> I'm glad you enjoyed yourself.
>> Do I not get a "thank you" for suggesting a church organ? ;)
>
>Heh. Thanks. ;-)
>

Don't mention it :)

>(Although actually, I played that organ 20 years ago, and that's what 
>made me pick that particular organ. They were friendly 20 years ago, and 
>it seems they're still friendly today... heh.)

Hmm! A child prodigy.
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Regards
     Stephen

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>> (Although actually, I played that organ 20 years ago, and that's what 
>> made me pick that particular organ. They were friendly 20 years ago, and 
>> it seems they're still friendly today... heh.)
> 
> Hmm! A child prodigy.

I played "Chopsticks". For about 60 seconds.

My latest trip was something else... ;-)

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On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:20:53 +0100, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>>> (Although actually, I played that organ 20 years ago, and that's what 
>>> made me pick that particular organ. They were friendly 20 years ago, and 
>>> it seems they're still friendly today... heh.)
>> 
>> Hmm! A child prodigy.
>
>I played "Chopsticks". For about 60 seconds.
>
>My latest trip was something else... ;-)

I'm glad it was fun and the only "chopsticks" I'm intrested in are the ones that
you use to stuff your face :)
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Regards
     Stephen

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