[HN Gopher] Free Organ
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Free Organ
Author : mhb
Score : 88 points
Date : 2023-06-21 19:18 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.organclearinghouse.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.organclearinghouse.com)
| johnea wrote:
| What is up w/ the connection of organs to religion?
|
| Couple it w/ a little glia stimulating light and you're off to
| nirvana...
| blowski wrote:
| John Calvin would wholeheartedly agree with you.
| RajT88 wrote:
| So this must be where these things end up, after a priest wakes
| up bleary-eyed after too much sacramental wine on the floor of
| the church, discovering his organ has been stolen.
| awayto wrote:
| Looking at a lot of the entries, how do you even go about moving
| these?
| cj wrote:
| Somewhat unrelated, but I found the pricing page interesting:
| https://www.organclearinghouse.com/fees
|
| > The cost of relocating, refurbishing, restoring, renovating a
| vintage organ is typically 2/3 or 3/4 that of commissioning a new
| organ.
|
| A free organ (I suppose unsurprisingly) is very expensive.
| chankstein38 wrote:
| And the finder's fee is $2500 O_O very much not free!
| asdfman123 wrote:
| That's about the cost of paying someone for 2-4 weeks of
| work. Seems about right for finding a new owner for an organ.
| bombcar wrote:
| $2500 is chump change for the costs involved with something
| like this.
| tgsovlerkhgsel wrote:
| When the cost of moving/installing the organ exceeds a
| million, it kind of puts the fee into perspective and
| explains why they can rely on the honor system for a 2.5k
| charge.
| JoeAltmaier wrote:
| This may be the mother of all white elephants.
| throwawayai2 wrote:
| LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER has a great set of video about removing an
| organ from a home, and setting it up/modifying it in his place. I
| highly recommend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PwwRR8deHk
| wildrhythms wrote:
| I deeply love this Youtube channel, and I have been following
| his organ saga for quite a while! The initial
| move/reinstallation was super enlightening to understand how
| organs actually work.
| vitruvius wrote:
| This is a huge instrument; the cost of refurbishing it and
| installing it would easily be $2M+, so the fact that it's free is
| sort of beside the point!
| bombcar wrote:
| Or if you're a professional organ refurbisher, now you can have
| one at home, too!
| cstross wrote:
| If the Large Hot Pipe Organ showed up on this website I'd have to
| fight the terrible compulsion to try and find a budget for it
| ...!
|
| https://archive.org/details/iuma-large_hot_pipe_organ
|
| "The Large Hot Pipe Organ is the world's only MIDI controlled,
| propane powered explosion organ. The LHPO's pyro-acoustic
| explodo-rhythmations will throbbatize your earholes and dance-ify
| your booty and make you realize what "Industrial Music" REALLY
| means!
|
| "Performing live at contemporary art festivals throughout
| Austria, Germany, Denmark, and Holland, the LHPO is an experience
| of sound, light, heat, rhythm and fire you won't want to miss."
|
| (At least it was, as of a couple of decades ago.)
| jnwatson wrote:
| When it has a walk-in airlock, you know you'll need some space.
| tsunamifury wrote:
| Wait, does Hans Zimmer use this for his percussion lines?
| noizejoy wrote:
| There's even a term for that:
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRAAAM
| shaftway wrote:
| This is not where the GPS said we were going.
|
| Similarly, if you like your nostalgia mashed up with unexpected
| genres, it's worth trying out Organ Trail.
|
| https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hatsproduc...
| [deleted]
| rebeccaskinner wrote:
| Oh, musical instruments. Nevermind.
| yegle wrote:
| As someone whose first language is not English this title
| confuses me a lot.
|
| Similarly I very recently learned the name of the flute-like
| instrument is called "recorder" :-(
| schoen wrote:
| I think most English native speakers would probably think of
| human bodily organs before the musical instrument, without
| context. I definitely did.
|
| Apparently the multiple meanings were already present to some
| extent as far back as Ancient Greek: https://en.wiktionary.or
| g/wiki/%E1%BD%84%CF%81%CE%B3%CE%B1%C...
|
| It's kind of like '(useful) thingy'.
|
| > Similarly I very recently learned the name of the flute-
| like instrument is called "recorder" :-(
|
| That one bugged me a lot in elementary school, as I kept
| thinking "if it's called a recorder, it should record
| something!".
| perihelions wrote:
| - _" The organ is immense: 117 ranks, including three full-length
| 32' voices..."_
|
| Hmm, how tall is this ceiling right here... umm... maybe I can
| bend them just a little idk
|
| edit: Oh, I know: I can just stick them out the window and out
| past the neighbors' windows above. There is no flaw in this plan
| mrob wrote:
| You actually can bend organ pipes (called "mitering"), and they
| will still work.
|
| Photo showing this:
| https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herschbach_%26_Girod...
|
| You can even have multiple bends to snake it up and down.
| ASalazarMX wrote:
| Awesome! Now I only need to find a sensible use for a giant
| pipe organ at home.
| [deleted]
| perihelions wrote:
| - _" sensible"_
|
| There's no such thing as an unsensible hobby. Who could
| even arbitrate that? Who arbitrates what the meaning of fun
| is, for you, personally?
| aae42 wrote:
| wives
| dheera wrote:
| > Who could even arbitrate that?
|
| HOAs. They should be outlawed, or at least made legally
| non-mandatory.
| tjr wrote:
| https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/organ.html
| jll29 wrote:
| The art of computer programming is not Donald Knuth's
| only art to master...
|
| Actually vol. 4b of TAOCP has a (combinatorial) exercise
| about the possible configuration settings of DK's private
| organ; I think I saw it near page 300 or so.
| robocat wrote:
| An example with bent wood pipes:
| https://www.organclearinghouse.com/3034-zimmer-residence-
| org...
| InitialLastName wrote:
| You can even wrap the pipe back into a tight coil and add
| valves so the player can change the length manually[0]
|
| [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_horn
| BizarroLand wrote:
| Congratulations, you have just reinvented the sousaphone
| pimlottc wrote:
| Where does it say this organ is free? There's no price listed.
| Other organs on the same site have prices or explicitly say
| "free".
| Chilko wrote:
| From the site: "The City of San Francisco will give the organ
| without charge to a new owner with the stipulation that it must
| remain intact and historically whole."
| [deleted]
| api wrote:
| So this means they're an organ donor?
| GNOMES wrote:
| Reminds me of a post on Reddit a few years ago about a guy with
| an organ in his house:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7sT_FqTi6A
| [deleted]
| bombcar wrote:
| Here's another one: https://www-cs-
| faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/organ.html [1]
|
| [1] Famous for other works in Mad Magazine, mainly
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