wow

pipe organs have such a powerful sound, but i have never got a chance to hear one up close.

If you ever get the chance, say if you have a friend who works with a church... See if you can be allowed to see BEHIND the rows of pipes. It's neat how the stuff all works.

And watch out if the organist ever opens up the thirty-two footer stops... Those ones'll make your solar plexus rumble.

Our church only has a piano, and the organ they used to have was a small transistor powered Hammond. but it died long ago,

our church is very small and most of the members are relatives.

Im always interested in how things work though, theres got to be tons of linkages, bellows, valves, wind boxes and hoses in a large pipe organ,
i would love to see that.

i dont know if you ever sequence midis or compose sheet music using a software like cakewalk but if you do you might be interested in this:
http://www.jeuxdorgues.com/

if you try this, Don't forget to add a nice reverb, freeverb2 is very nice:
http://www.sonicspot.com/freeverb/freeverb.html

Im not trying to advertise, but according to your statement about needing to find churches with good pipe organs, this seemed like a good alternative in a pinch, in case you just wanted to try this at home.
(i know its only sampled but its still pretty good)

Thank you for the info.

I guess my tools are getting pretty good though, if they're fooling more ears...

I compose using Finale 2008 for staff, using Garritan Personal Orchestra for professional-quality samples and plugins. This latest edition really blows me away with the sound quality. Basically, I write to staff, tweak the Human Playback styles until it acts like a professional musician, then turn the Garritan plugins on so it sounds like a profesional musician.

The software package is pricey, but at the level I'm working, it's worth the money. (And still decidedly less expensive than hiring musicians to record.)

I just figured i would share some info, but it sounds like you got the tools for the job


its a shame people tend to ignore old instruments because of pop music.
i would love to see a TB-303 make a note as powerful and deep as a 64'
stop on an organ XD

Agreed. In fact, I collect, play, and even make my own oddball instruments. I've just about gotten my PVC didgeridoo custom-creation technique perfected, and my next instrumental purchase is going to be an autoharp. I simply can't play the guitar, I've tried, and I really need a chording instrument if I want to play my own songs at open mic nights. It just isn't cutting it to come up with a bass guitar or viola and have to ask an in-house guitar player to read a chord sheet to back me up.

Wow!

I have been thinking of a new invention lately thats like a cross between an auto-harp and an electric guitar,

it would be some kind of complex mechanical adjustable attachment that would clamp on to a guitars neck and it would have either keys like a piano keyboard
or buttons for chords (or both) it could also have a special slider that allowed for slides and glissandos.

its an idea i have had in my head for quite some time.

i know different types of guitars have different neck/scale lengths and that
the frets are spaced logarithmic (i think)

and then again i might just be re-inventing the clavinet O_o

but home made instruments are always cool.

im also a fan of experimental music in such ways.

Like
"Several small species of furry animals gathered together in a cave grooving with a pict" by Pink Floyd off Ummagumma.
(yes thats the real name O_o)

or

"Revolution 9" by The Beatles off White Album
(i think thats the track that Charles Mansion thought was sending him messages)

I really like it when Rock music incorporates orchestral instruments too
like Bohemian Rapsody by Queen,
Kashmir by Led Zepplin, (i think they used a mellotron though :/ )
Elenore Rigby by the Beatles,
Sympathy for the Devil by the Rolling Stones
and other stuff.

but i have wanted to build some kind of mechanisim to play the guitar like that for some time, you could use a fuzzbox/overdriven amp and smash the keys on it to do hammer-ons or you could hold a button for a chord and strum the strings for chording, there could even be some kind of shift lever wi switch between minor and major chords and such. but the device would be very complex

(not that that has stopped instrument builders before)

i know its physically and technically possible and feasable. but i need to start working on it. but an autoharp sounds like a cheap alternative XD

I think I remember seeing an auto-chording device somewhere before. Can't find reference to it with a quick bit of Google-fu, though. You may be onto something.

I love organ sounds.

*burp burp squish glorp b'dump b'dump glorp*

... Oh, you didn't mean THAT kind of organs.