How a Pipe Organ Works (2020)

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madars16 天前

Oxford Music Online has a great article that goes into a lot of detail - <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.44010" rel="nofollow">https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.44010</a> and fittingly remarks that>The organ is, together with the clock, the most complex of all mechanical instruments developed before the Industrial Revolution. Among musical instruments its history is the most involved and wide-ranging, and its extant repertory the oldest and largest. Despite its essentially indirect and therefore relatively inflexible production of sound, no other instrument has inspired such avowed respect as the organ, ‘that great triumph of human skill … the most perfect musical instrument’ (Grove), ‘in my eyes and ears … the king of instruments’ (Mozart, letter to his father, 17–18 October 1777).Stephen Malinowski's famous YouTube channel of animated graphical scores has a great selection of organ pieces: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXaCmhAMnHs&list=PLA20FE13E9AC56564" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXaCmhAMnHs&list=PLA20FE13E9...</a>St. Cecilia, pray for us!

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ofalkaed16 天前

It is nice to know that Pipedreams is still going and even with Michael Barone still hosting after all these years. My earliest memory of music and one of my earliest memories is the opening sequence of Rollerball with Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, my father was watching it on cable* sometime around 1980 when I was ~3 and it had a major impact. Few years later I heard Toccata and Fugue in D Minor a second time on the drive home from a family event or something, I don't think the actual piece was played but just a few of the opening bars as a demonstration but it was enough to trigger the memory of the opening sequence of Rollerball and I became a weekly listener for the next 20 odd years.I did not learn that it was Rollerball that I had watched the opening of all those years ago until sometime after the turn of the century when the original started getting heavy replay on late night TV because the remake was coming out soon.*I suppose cable in this context is rather archaic these days, as is the idea of a "cable ready" TV and cable boxes. Wood grained plastic was pretty much the internet of those day.<a href="https://www.retroist.com/p/jerrold-cable-tv-boxes" rel="nofollow">https://www.retroist.com/p/jerrold-cable-tv-boxes</a>

LegitShady16 天前

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLluPQLh1xzlI7EMB5qIxDd_1OLE-Z_kyC" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLluPQLh1xzlI7EMB5qIxD...</a>Highly recommend this youtube playlist by Look Mum No Computer, who bought an old church pipe organ, disassembled it and reassembled it at his museum.And he does in fact end up installing a (smol) computer so he can use it with MIDI, as well as LEDs on each pipe so when a note sounds you can see which pipe makes it.

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bgoated0116 天前

My brother just finished building an automatic pipe organ for his Mechanical Engineering senior project. Or maybe you'd call it a street organ since it has no keyboard. It has midi input on some arduino-like device, 3d printed pipes, a hand crank pump to fill the bellows, and a bunch of shift registers, relays, and solenoids (on breadboards at this point) to open the valves for the pipes. It turned out really nice, and was a hit at the project showcase. I was involved in helping him figure out the electronics and the code, though I think he threw out the code I wrote in favor of using ChatGPT. All in all, it's not a technically difficult thing to make, though I have the benefit of his hindsight at this point. Maybe I'll get him to write it up at some point.

kjellsbells16 天前

Given this is HN, how can we talk about pipe organs without mentioning Donald Knuth's?Eight foot pipes. In his house.<a href="https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/organ.html" rel="nofollow">https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/organ.html</a>

smitty1e16 天前

I had always understood that the surrounding cathedral was part of the instrument, too.Imagine my surprise when we went to hear Robert Plimpton work out in Balboa Park...<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-plimpton-0802761b/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-plimpton-0802761b/</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141129041425/https://www.sandiegohistory.org/bpbuildings/organ.htm" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20141129041425/https://www.sandi...</a>

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dang16 天前

Related (loosely):The story of my home made pipe organ (2000) - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42831969">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42831969</a> - Jan 2025 (52 comments)Paper Pipe Organ (2019) [video] - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39000648">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39000648</a> - Jan 2024 (6 comments)Organ pipe physics - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38853087">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38853087</a> - Jan 2024 (66 comments)OpenPipes: Build your open-source virtual pipe organ system - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36873573">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36873573</a> - July 2023 (27 comments)The organ as a wind instrument - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34309230">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34309230</a> - Jan 2023 (105 comments)Self-Playing Pipe Organ - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18111869">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18111869</a> - Oct 2018 (7 comments)Teeny-Tiny, Handmade Pipe Organ - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13711526">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13711526</a> - Feb 2017 (1 comment)Pipe Organ desk - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10778499">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10778499</a> - Dec 2015 (25 comments)Pneumatic logic board made entirely from wood doubles as desk/organ - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2788069">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2788069</a> - July 2011 (4 comments)The Surprising Physics of Pipe Organs - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=803341">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=803341</a> - Sept 2009 (1 comment)

YesBox16 天前

Semi related, here's a modern, young artist who composes music for pipe organs that use tunings from the Baroque era. [1]The music is minimalistic at first ear, but the tension and release caused by the slightly out of tune notes [2] is really pleasant IMO.[1] <a href="https://kalimalone.bandcamp.com/track/all-life-long-for-organ" rel="nofollow">https://kalimalone.bandcamp.com/track/all-life-long-for-orga...</a>[2] Out of tune to equal temperament, which is what nearly all modern music western music uses.

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globnomulous16 天前

Relevant: <a href="https://www.linusakesson.net/sixtyforgan/index.php" rel="nofollow">https://www.linusakesson.net/sixtyforgan/index.php</a>

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