[HN Gopher] How a Pipe Organ Works
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       How a Pipe Organ Works
        
       Author : dskhatri
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2025-04-27 20:53 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.pipedreams.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.pipedreams.org)
        
       | LegitShady wrote:
       | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLluPQLh1xzlI7EMB5qIxD...
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       | 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.
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       | 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.
        
         | timthorn wrote:
         | The Museum is small but well worth a visit, especially if you
         | are interested in electronic music or telecoms.
        
         | natebc wrote:
         | And here's a related from someone i wish would do a crossover
         | with Sam someday!
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         | Anna Lapwood touring the Royal Albert Hall organ:
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         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq0s17bzdLI
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         | Bonus related rec if you need a smile in your day. Anna
         | Lapwoord playing that organ with Bonobo:
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         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdyAF9M3XVw
        
       | smitty1e wrote:
       | I had always understood that the surrounding cathedral was part
       | of the instrument, too.
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       | Imagine my surprise when we went to hear Robert Plimpton work out
       | in Balboa Park...
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       | https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-plimpton-0802761b/
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       | https://web.archive.org/web/20141129041425/https://www.sandi...
        
       | madars wrote:
       | Oxford Music Online has a great article that goes into a lot of
       | detail - https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.44010
       | and accurately remarks that
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       | >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).
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       | Stephen Malinowski's famous YouTube channel of animated graphical
       | scores has a great selection of organ pieces:
       | https://www.youtube.com/@smalin/search?query=organ
        
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