This is the latest vesion of my Topsy organs. A small but powerful 26 note organ plus 6 percussions. It is running on a blower at 8 inches WG
Standard bass is enhanced with two extra large pipes mounted under the windchest the largest at 34 inches long. There are two ranks of melody pipes stopped and open tuned celest with a stop on the open rank. The organ will be fitted with glockenspiel.
The blower will be mounted in the bass of the organ or it can be fitted with bellows to be hand turned. I have made this organ to play standard 20 note scale or 26 scale plus 5 percussion, this will enable me to put some really nice varied music on it.
Cool! How did you program the MIDI machine to play this? That just really intrigues me.
GrandMasterIV 3 years ago
Standard music is converted to midi files in a program called Cakewalk drum signals are manually tapped in and them played from a floppy disk into a decoder that splits out all the individual notes and operates magnetic solenoids under each pipe to let the compressed air into them. Or there are thousands of midi files on the web which can be adjusted to suit the organs scale ,perhaps easier said than done !
gemmadan 3 years ago
This organ has 32 midi notes 26 are for the pipes the rest are for the in built percussions.
there is a manual stop for one of the two melody ranks and one for the Glock. A self contained organ plug in and it can play for up to an hour on one disk.
See more on youtube under new midi organ for sale. I am currently having the front decorated when completed I will post another video. See and hear this organ at the Great Dorset Steam fair at the amateur organ builders marquee.
gemmadan 3 years ago