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jpp
New Member
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 14/04/2006 : 10:40:18 PM
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Does anyone have experience of building a house organ? I am particularly interested in advice regarding the construction & scaling of (wood) bass pipes for use on low wind pressure (2")
Thanks
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arthur
Advanced Member
United Kingdom
24 Posts |
Posted - 14/04/2006 : 11:23:17 PM
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Hi Jan
I have built a hand cranked organ which operates on 4.5inches wg but is operated by paper roll.
A book that I found very informative was:-
How to build a small two-manual chamber pipe organ by HF Milne
This book I obtained from
St Albans Organ Museum
320 Camp Rd
St Albans
Herts
It was first published in 1925 but it does have some fold out drawings which are very good.
It was republished by The Organ Literature Foundation
Hope this helps
Arthur Nichols West Mids UK |
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arthur
Advanced Member
United Kingdom
24 Posts |
Posted - 14/04/2006 : 11:26:50 PM
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Jan
I omitted to say that the Milne Organ operates on 1.5 to 2 inches wg
and is well documented on pipes.
Arthur |
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aobg
Forum Administrator
United Kingdom
254 Posts |
Posted - 14/04/2006 : 11:30:10 PM
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| Hi Jan several members can help. Just for your interest I will be posting on the AOBG WebPages a down load of PIPES-FAIR ORGAN-1.XLS by Bob Essex, this will calculate any pipes you will need. PIPES-FAIR ORGAN-1.XLS runs under Microsoft Office Excel. This will be included in the next update soon. If you need it faster than that I will send you the PIPES-FAIR ORGAN-1.XLS. If you don’t have Microsoft Office Excel Send me the scale you are looking for and the size of your middle C pipe and I will do the rest for you. If you don’t have a middle C let me know and I will work out some pipe dimensions for you. That’s if all that will help you in anyway. Phil Radford |
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windchest
Advanced Member
United Kingdom
29 Posts |
Posted - 22/04/2006 : 12:46:29 AM
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HI Jan,
I do not make my own pipes,But I build the rest, I am also very good at finding useful "things".I tend to use lots of non pipe organ parts and modify to suit my needs.The book that Arthur mentioned is really good ( although old -ish),lots of useful info in it.Take a look at---- www.cadisheadmotorcycles.com ----to see what I do. I'm in the middle of fitting a 65 note roll player to my 3 rank midi pipe organ,And in the process of building another "Switchbox" using a player piano primary pouchboard.BY THE WAY ,HAS ANYONE A 65 PIANOLA PLAYER MECHANISM FOR SALE (cheap).It's the rollbox complete and the primary pouchboard I'm after.
Cheerio " windchest " Chris to you. |
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windchest
Advanced Member
United Kingdom
29 Posts |
Posted - 24/04/2006 : 11:25:26 PM
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Make That an 88 note player mechanism and primary pouchboard.
cheers chris |
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WhistlePipes
Average Member
USA
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Posted - 28/04/2006 : 12:59:32 AM
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Originally posted by jpp
Does anyone have experience of building a house organ? I am particularly interested in advice regarding the construction & scaling of (wood) bass pipes for use on low wind pressure (2")
Thanks
There are various sources for organ pipe scales. Most libraries have or can find you a copy of "The Art of Organ Building" by George Ashdown Audsley to borrow. The book gives basic scales of each 'C' note. A fine example of pipe scales can be found at Aug. Laukhuff in their PDF catalogue, category 10 (Pages 10.28 thru 10.33).
http://www.laukhuff.de/english/kata_e.html
Page 10.26 is a blank chart for drawing out scales. Such a chart is useful to draw out either your own pipe scales, or for other scales such as block height, upper lip chamfer height, and mouth height etc.
One thing with using low wind pressure is to make sure your pipe feet are of an ample size for adequate wind flow. I oversize mine slightly.
Are you looking to build 16' bass pipes? Do they have to look nice or could you purchase some used ones cheaply? |
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WhistlePipes
Average Member
USA
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arthur
Advanced Member
United Kingdom
24 Posts |
Posted - 28/04/2006 : 05:24:07 AM
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Hi Rich
Your posting is most interesting, the link to the builders sites show how things can be done and how to present them.
I had seen the third one but the first two were new to me.
I look forward to exploring the links more.
This is what I think this AOB site should be about.
Arthur Nichols |
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aobg
Forum Administrator
United Kingdom
254 Posts |
Posted - 28/04/2006 : 08:37:47 AM
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| Yes I think Arthur’s quite right this is what the AOBG is all about great links very interesting and useful. Thanks for your input. |
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jpp
New Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 09/05/2006 : 2:35:46 PM
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Many thanks to all of you who have replied to my request. I now have the information that I need and have started building the bottom octave (16') for my house organ.
This site is wonderful!
Jan |
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House Organ
Posted - 28/04/2006 : 01:39:46 AM