A Video Tour of my Hauptwerk Virtual Pipe Organ (Part V)

[refarassgat]

Really touching performance, thanks for your effort on the demonstration, and for the song!

[kaspenceruk]

@refarassgat - Thanks for the comment, and I'm glad that the videos were useful!

Ken.

[ps6939]

Your playing sounds pretty good to me. The organ is the easiest instrument to play but the hardest of all to master. I think that is one of the things that interests me the most about it. With an organ one does not just conduct an orchestra, one plays an orchestra along with some tap dancing. I have huge size 14 feet, so my tap dancing on the pedal board sounds more like the drums. I've never been to Bristol. I think it's one of few places in England that I've not visited. I lived in Sheffield.

[ps6939]

Thanks for the response. Yes just a little cheaper than pipes... millions cheaper not to mention all the constant tuning fees. You did a great job building that organ. Things are so expensive in England. I no longer live in England but in Chicago. I lived there for 30 years so I know how expensive things are there. I had a 1 off opportunity to play the organ at Leeds Cathedral. They have pipes but the superwoofer speakers are tucked in behind the pipes, the first time I had ever seen that done.

[kaspenceruk]

@ps6939 All-in-all I think the project is excellent value. It's just my playing that is not so good!

I have played about 6-8 real organs, including a couple of large-ish ones. Bristol Cathedral was the largest but I didn;t play that one for long.

Ken

[ps6939]

I didn't know something like this existed until recently. How much did it cost you to build?

[kaspenceruk]

@ps6939 Hello Paul - I am not exactly sure how much the organ cost (and I still have enhancements to make - thumb pistons beneath each manual and a full set of illuminated stop switches). But I have spent well over £1.3k (trade prices) on the PC (now has 16Gb RAM & 2x 1Tb discs); the software is over £1k (Hauptwerk v4 Advanced edn, SONARX1, etc etc). The keyboards, USB-MIDI box, MIDI PCBs, Behringher etc etc are about £1k in total, and sample sets more than £1.5k. Still heaper than pipes though!

[learning41230]

Very well done. Something to think about.

[DaveChorowskiMusic]

im sorry but this is not worth the price

[kaspenceruk]

@DaveChorowskiMusic

Sorry Dave - I didn't quite understand your comment, but in any case, I am afraid that the organ isn't for sale!

But I assure you that I consider that it is worth evry penny that it cost me to build.

Ken.

[DaveChorowskiMusic]

@kaspenceruk ive seen iit on ebay for 3500$

[kaspenceruk]

@DaveChorowskiMusic That's really strange Dave, as I have never had an organ for sale on eBay.

Could you please let me have the eBay item number ...

Thanks, Ken.

[fburton8]

I thouroughly enjoyed this video tour - fascinating! Thank you very much.

[kaspenceruk]

@fburton8 - Thanks for your kind words! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Ken.

[CoolNick107]

That is a beautiful organ. I wish that I had built one of them, a midi organ, instead of the Allen analog organ I got for $3,000. Good job on the piece you played at the end of the video. In the future, keep posting videos of YOU playing the organ, and not just a picture of the virtual organ. I rather watch an actual person playing the organ when I am listening to organ music.

-Nick :-)

[stuartylad]

Hi,

Many thanks for posting. The entire collection of videos were really interesting. Some good tips for me. I'm gathering the necessary bits and bobs to build my own so all the help I can get is great! First... I've got to finish restoring the concert grand I bought off Ebay. My partner wasn't happy as I was only looking for a book!

Regards,

Stuart

Brampton, Cumbria

[kaspenceruk]

Thanks for that Stuart! Glad to be of help.

I only have a baby grand (5'3") rather than a concert grand: I can imagine that restoring that will be a major project! Even moving it around is a feat in itself.

Regards

Ken.

[HumilisServus]

Thank you again for all these videos!

[kaspenceruk]

My pleasure HS - I'm glad that you liked them!