A Study In Organs

a video i made for my acoustics class.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• acoustics
• organ
• music

[bryans1800]

What a great video! Was this done for a college project? I have been playing for 20 years and I even learned and recalled things long forgotten. The organ I play on is a 107 rank IV manual mechanical / electric action organ. It's absolutely wonderful! Are you continuing to play?

[iiiiiottersiiiii]

@bryans1800 Yes this was a project for my acoustics class. Unfortunately I don't play as much as I'd like. I have a Hammond M-111 Tonewheel organ.

[Zylstra555]

Nice video.

If you ever build an organ, and decide it wasn't good enough, send it my way!

Here is a question I asked my organ instructor, but she was not absolutely sure: What is the difference between a rank and a stop? I hear the terms used so interchangeably.

Where is the organ you look at in this video?

- Church Organist.

[iiiiiottersiiiii]

@Zylstra555. Glad you like the video. Honestly I don't know the difference between a rank and a stop. My organ knowledge is very basic and most of what I know I learned to make this video. This organ is at the State University of New York at Fredonia.

[bachkirche]

Regarding having a detachable keyboard, you failed to mention such a convenience is a trivial thing paid for royally by an insensitive playing action, which usually requires unreasonable wind pressures to work, which in turn disrupts the voicing, and due to lack of key-channel wind chests (single valve per key for each division) there is a lack of cohesion between "on" and "off", and that the valves typically operate exceedingly fast causing an unnatural sound especially during trills....

[iiiiiottersiiiii]

@bachkirche . well I assumed everyone already knew that, so I didnt bother to mention it.

[SeattleOrganMan]

Hey Cliff ~

What a delighfully creative and humorous presentation. And while all the experts were quick to point-out errors...don't take it to heart. I, too, am an organ builder with 20+ years of experience..and I think you deserve an A+ for your efforts. Oh, and while no one asked...the organ is very obviously built by Schlicker of Buffalo, NY.

[Rheinlander95]

Looks like a Schlicker console.  I just love screamy organs, don't you?

[Offshoreorganbuilder]

... so a 3-rank organ could have 3 sets of pipes, playable as 3 different stops, or the 3 sets of pipes might be made playable at the console in 11 different ways, and controled by 11 different stop heads (or tabs.) The 'straight' organ would have 3 ranks and 3 stops, and the 'extended' organ would have 3 ranks extended to 11 stops. Clear?!!!

[Offshoreorganbuilder]

@Zylstra555 In general terms, a rank of pipes is the same as a stop of pipes - both mean a 'set' of pipes from largest to smallest. Some organs have 'stops' which consist of more than one set of pipes. A 3-rank Mixture, for instance, has 3 pipes to each note, so in this case a single 'stop' (the Mixture) consists of 3 ranks. Then again, organs can be built in which the 'stops' at the console are a selection of pipes taken from the organ's several ranks (a way of 'cheating'!) ...

[gramps2matt]

You had me at "Let's go inside." then climbing through the window!!!! Great video.

[ATLKapellmeister]

I like the effort and idea of the video. HOWEVER, I did not like the way you treated Matt. Second, it's pronounced Di -Ahhh-pAsons. Other then that, the effort was good. Oh just one other thing, the top of the organ console is NOT a seat or chair. Did you consult someone from the organ department?



[mattcasseri]

lmfao....I still remember making this video. So freakin' funny

[pallmark1997]

the great devison dosnt always contain the most stops

[scotto40]

cute video and you are cute too!

[MelosAntropon]

@Zylstra555: A *rank* is one row of pipes, one for each note. 61 pipes on a manual, 32 on pedal. The majority of stops are one-rank stops. But some knobs control two (celeste) or three, four or five ranks (Mixtures or Cornets). No Roman numeral on the knob? It's a one-rank stop. Roman numerals? It is a (however many) rank stop. An organ virtually always has more ranks than stops. Got it? :>)