How to make a wooden organ pipe - Part 1 of 3

Hmm, I'm thinking that if I take on the task of building even a small positive organ, I'm going to need more clamps! As well as a table saw and a drill press (I'm absolutely hopeless at cutting wood straight even with a circular saw)

I think you're suggesting the best way to make a rank of wooden pipes vrs. that of demonstrating how to make one wooden pipe as shown on the video. I've been told it's much more economical to make two identical ranks of pipes (wood) than one, as it divides, somewhat, the cost of labour to build two identical ranks. But the real trick is to ensure the extra rank is sold or installed on the next organ that comes along to realize the profit advantage involved in doing so. Same for portativ organs.

Actually the more identical ranks you make at one time the better- the machine and layout setup time is the same for 1 rk or 6

I've made hundreds of wood pipes, and I do NONE of the procedures the way you do, including the order of assembly of the pipe. There's more than one way to skin a cat! Maybe I'll make a video response some day. Where did you get your training? (I bet if I visit your website I'll learn more...)

How many times do you use that pipe width within the single rank?

Once. Every pipe in a rank has a different width.

very good, very consistent.

Hey raphig, didn't notice a website till you mentioned it just now, cool! looked here like you were solely a woodworker trying to build your own organ which was why I commented. I work for another builder and most of what I do is build the wood pipes. I dont recall making the French rank you mention. Ive made a set out of maple and one out of cherry, forget where they went but the maple was a real chore!
I have a 1930 Moller in my house Im working on.

Thanks for your tips on pipe construction. If you look at my website, you'll see that I made the 8' Bourdon with ears and the 16' Soubasse with ears and beards. I purposely cut the mouth of the principal pipes all the way across the face to mimic a true French Montre pipe which doesn't have ears.

So, you're making pipes that are normally made of metal out of wood? I've seen "big" builders do the same on occasion for the bottom 8ctve of a Diapason or Montre (whatever) and the sound is very convincing. The trend in the past 50 years is to use much more metal pipework than wood--but I don't think it's necessarily done for the sake of artistic merit. It has more to do with distributing work evenly to the "plumbing" shop and the wood shop in the same organ manufactory. I prefer a wood flute.