Waldflöte MIDI-enabled pipe organ

The Waldflöte project is a MIDI retrofit to a 1890s Gray and Davison pipe organ located in the Forest Cafe in Edinburgh. It converts MIDI input into solenoid drive to directly press the keys on one of the manuals - there is no permanent modification to the organ.

Members of Dorkbot Edinburgh have spent the last 7 months or so working on this and we're pretty pleased with it. It was publicly announced at the Electron Club Open Day on 18th October 2008 in Glasgow.

Find out more at http://dorkbot.noodlefactory.co.uk/wiki/WaldFl%C3%B6te

Category:

Music

Tags:

• dorkbot
• alba
• edinburgh
• waldflote
• midi
• pipe
• organ

[thiagotecnico]

Castlevania Please!!!!

[powaybob]

All that clicking means you need some felt somewhere....

[NickExton309]

Very good i must say!

[daddybear1965]

you need felt!!!! OMG!! it would sound alot better without the clicking!

[GoldenPickaxe]

@DanielChristy19 I have a midi. IDEA MUCH? :D

LET'S-A GO!

[digitaldgirl4459]

I really like the "clockworks" sound it has too. Great!!!

[LanchesterEarlyMusic]

I shall have to come and have a look at this organ some time, it does sound quite nice !

Carl Heslop

Organist of the Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle.

[dominich4962]

van halen jump

[trainguy111]

Reminds me of the Logos Foundation's Piperola.

[latribe]

Congrats - really useful. What solenoids are you using powerful enough to press the keys? Please can I buy a circuit diagram? You could go into manufacture. Members of the EOCS would certainly be interested in this.

[AxisHome1]

Lot of clickin from the keys. If you disable the sound on some of the keys u get castanets lol. Great vid, Great organ 5*.