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For Pentecost:

  Komm, Gott, Schöpfer, heiliger Geist. BWV 631 (J S Bach) - 882 KB/56s

 

(played on the Prog Organ simulation of the Schnitger organ at Cappel)

 

 

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This website outlines research by Colin Pykett in the field of pipe organs and electronic organs, and offers on-line advice

 

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LATEST ARTICLE - Gottfried Silbermann's Fluework.  Gottfried Silbermann's organs have always been famed for their “silvery sounds”.  This article describes a major piece of research focusing on some characteristics of his fluework in an attempt to see what this might mean.  It used acoustic measurements made on a surviving Silbermann organ, and the results are original, detailed and made available in the public domain for the first time.  Suggestions are made as to how today's voicers might use the results in practice.  Click here to read it, or use the link on the Complete Articles page where there is also an expanded summary.

 

IN THE PIPELINEother articles are in preparation relating to pipe and electronic organs, with titles as below:

 

Winston E Kock

All you ever wanted to know about loudspeakers

Age-related hearing loss and organ building

How the reed pipe speaks

 Wavelet Analysis of Organ Pipe Sounds

 

See the Current Work page for more details

 

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A summary of the site contents is below (each section also has a button at the top of each page) :

 

About this Website    Please read before using the site - contains update history & tips for browsing this site optimally

Current Work            Work planned or still in progress

Complete Articles      The gateway to many complete articles available on this site, with indexes and summaries

Other Publications     Some other hard-copy public domain publications on pipe and electronic organs since 1980

Contact Me                For advice, to discuss the contents of the site, etc

About the Author       My bio

"Prog Organ"           News and lots of sound clips of the Prog Organ digital organ system

Organ Consultancy    How I undertake organ consultancy activities.

 

 

 

The pallet test rig on the left  is used for experiments on pipe organ pallets, such as those described in the articles entitled Calculating Pallet Size Touch Relief in Mechanical Actions and Response Speed of Electric ActionsThese can also be accessed from the Complete Articles page where summaries are also available.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pictured left  is an experimental digital organ, currently being used to simulate several different 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 stretched octaves as proposed in Temperament - a study of Anachronism.

Hear it: 

 

  Minuet in D (J Stanley) - 1.69 MB/1m 51s  

 

 

 

 

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