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This website outlines research by Colin Pykett in the field of pipe organs and electronic organs

LATEST ARTICLE - Age-Related Hearing Loss and Organs

They never would hear,

But turn the deaf ear,

As a matter they had no concern in.

Jonathan Swift

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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

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 Actions.  These 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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