Its a Clarabella Flute. Open wood pipes. It is of 8' pitch, but the lowest pipe is 4'. I belive this was normal practice as the orchestral flute never extends below this. It came from a 58 note manual, so there are only 46 pipes in the rank, effectively the bottom octave is not provided.
That was common practice about a hundred or so years ago with many organ stops. To save money, many 8' ranks only went down to 4' C. Of course, if you're good at woodworking you could copy the design and scaling and build the last octave to complete it, but then if you're trying to imitate the orchestral flute, there's no need.
Wood pipes, fine, I was thinking of pipes in general, which include "lead" pipes. I would feel awful if somebody made a career (lol) of playing gemshorns or such like this, and got sick.
Well Done!
Offshoreorganbuilder 6 months ago
A very good rendition! Great video, made me smile.
Cindermakers 3 years ago
Neat! What rank is this from?
ccoraxfan 4 years ago
Its a Clarabella Flute. Open wood pipes. It is of 8' pitch, but the lowest pipe is 4'. I belive this was normal practice as the orchestral flute never extends below this. It came from a 58 note manual, so there are only 46 pipes in the rank, effectively the bottom octave is not provided.
pulsynetic 4 years ago
That was common practice about a hundred or so years ago with many organ stops. To save money, many 8' ranks only went down to 4' C. Of course, if you're good at woodworking you could copy the design and scaling and build the last octave to complete it, but then if you're trying to imitate the orchestral flute, there's no need.
ccoraxfan 4 years ago
PLEASE be careful with this. I know of an organ builder who got lead poisoning after years of this.
azqrlaf 4 years ago
Off wooden pipe feet?
pulsynetic 4 years ago
Wood pipes, fine, I was thinking of pipes in general, which include "lead" pipes. I would feel awful if somebody made a career (lol) of playing gemshorns or such like this, and got sick.
azqrlaf 4 years ago 2
intersting,, I suppose you would have made out with the rest of the organ had the pastor not come in so early??????????
paulbrockenhagen 4 years ago
HA HAAA!! FuNNy & charming!
mercoid 4 years ago
LOL!
pipeorganDUDE 4 years ago
Do you repair organs?
HaMoOhAhA 5 years ago
I would actualy pay to hear this played with all the voices that way
stas21 5 years ago
Me too!! xDD and with an accurate bE afination hehe
Azurlake 5 years ago
Awesome! The inexpensive alternative to a digital organ!
gmcausland 5 years ago
actually, it's quite expensive
zzzz2000heaven 4 years ago