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Last updated: 3 February 2010. Click About This Website for update list. ●● This site is now mirrored at www.colinpykett.org.uk (more >>) ●●
For over ten years the most stable and extensive reference source on the Internet for pipe and electronic organs
The hub of this site is the Complete Articles page which gives you instant access to many detailed articles dealing with numerous technical aspects of both pipe and electronic organs. Use the Google search box below to quickly identify areas of interest. While browsing, why not also listen to over an hour of music files played on the Prog Organ digital organ system?
LATEST ARTICLE - Hope-Jones's Quintadenas
Hope-Jones included Quintadena stops in many of his organs, and this article demonstrates the wide range of quiet and mezzo-forte effects which they endow in conjunction with other speaking stops and with the large number of couplers in his organs. Some of them are decidedly attractive and useful in works from the conventional repertoire such as those by Bach. It is suggested that this might be set against the general condemnation which his organs have usually attracted. Some sound examples are included to assist readers make up their own minds on the matter.
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The picture above is of a test rig used for experiments on pipe organ valves, such as those described in the articles entitled Calculating Pallet Size, Touch Relief in Mechanical Actions and Response Speed of Electric Actions. These can also be accessed from the Complete Articles page where summaries are also available.
Pictured above is an experimental digital organ which simulates many different pipe organs (Prog Organ). Also see the article entitled Re-creating Vanished Organs.
This electronic organ is a dual purpose instrument containing both "straight" and "theatre" voices, designed and made by the author. It is tuned to the author's Dorset Temperament with the addition of some impure octaves as described in Keyboard Temperaments with Impure Octaves. A full specification is available here.
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