The 64ft and 128ft pedal organ stop experiment

Unfortunately the camera microphone sound just can't go down to 8Hz and 4Hz but this pedal department shakes everything visibly and is a brilliant addition to full organ. Whilst experimenting my wife thought that I had started the tractor outside and upon coming in commented that it sounded like the Titanic's engine room.

We've always wondered what these sounds really would sound like on a real pipe organ . . . so here goes!

This instrument provides a versatility suitable for playing organ music from all European traditions and the next project is to try to create the excitement of Baroque reeds.

Whilst starting off as a Makin from Londonderry cathedral it has now been very much transformed and is not an instrument that one can go and buy off the shelf. From this point of view the excellence of the instrument is not a threat to pipe organs as most good pipe organs are far superior to the digital electronics commercially available on the market. The versatility of this instrument actually enables one to contemplate how proposed changes to pipe organs might work . . . and so is capable of providing a model for the improvements of pipe instruments.

Thanks to the theremin137 who inspired this ultra low experiment http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BROuHql6ni8 almost as a joke in response to Thanks to the theremin137 who inspired this http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BROuHql6ni8 and http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9rmsORjN0ws

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[Enantiodromialist]

Is this for real? Last I heard, there was only one organ in the world with a 64' stop! where is this? Who is this – a hobbyist who somehow built his own 128' stop?

[latribe]

@Enantiodromialist This is a simulation of 128ft using frequency division in order to test what musical effect or purpose such low frequencies can be to music and whether they have any place at all. Look for "Latrobian Whirl" where the 128ft was used on certain large notes. Other concerts have used it - possibly Ben Scott - search "Ben Scott Widor Toccata 5th Symphonie" as he's likely to have used it on that. The instrument is intended to allow experiment as well as demonstrating the repertoire

[Coricans]

If I was his neighbor I swear to god id fucking kill him

[latribe]

@Coricans :-) I do have a neighbour who'd like to take a contract out on my - but he lives half a mile away. Luckily my closest neighbours are very understanding and are GREAT!

[TheElectronicaman]

you should use a rotary woofer for this.

[latribe]

@TheElectronicaman Perhaps the makers of rotary woofers might like to sponsor this!

[maxcohen13]

Somewhere there's a bunch of elephants going mad.

[jimamia77]

"On the Boardwalk!! In Atlantic City!!" 64' down by the beach!!

[silverstartrucker]

Gave my Woofer's a work out.

[schuldistkult]

Naja, 128`..lol... das hat mit ja Musik noch wenig zu tun..

[RogueRotting360]

@ALANSKA62 You'd be surprised.

[TheElectronicaman]

@latribe please type up the only subwoofer by J.Peter moncrieff.

[ALANSKA62]

INTERESTING BUT OF NO MUSICAL VALUE.

[zuzrwolrd]

I really LOVE to hear an organ, it has 2387687653764 different sounds, but 99 percent you'll never use, they're just there to have fun with them and create earthquakes :P