Next out of season open days at the museum are this weekend! Link in the description for more info the full jam for the vid was uploaded last week over here www.patreon.com/lookmumnocomputer
@Thomas Yeats in case you don't know, that board was probably taken from the church. It's used to show the numbers in the hymnal for the hymns that will be sung during service.
Suggest making that stomp pedal ALL NOTES OFF. I built a set of Moog Taurus II pedals into a MIDI controller and if you get switch bounce, the ALL NOTES OFF is super useful :) In my case I built it into the pedal logic if you his the lowest and 2nd highest at the same time (unlikely to ever want to PLAY that combination!)
I absolutely love your energy joy and tenacity to continue to build and play the most complex and largest musical instrument in the history of the world that can be played by one man. YOU BELONG IN THE Guinness Book of World Records !🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🎊🧨 Come in here boy ,have a cigar.....
I’m not sure but that foot button I believe it’s called a foot stop And it’s automatic pulls your stops for you or it Cancels the stops so you don’t have to push them in or flip them with your hands While you’re playing
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER 4 times? Where else has it been? Also, do you reckon Joans family might give us a chat about her and the organ? She sounds like a proper legend.
I'm trying to imagine how completely nonsensical everything in this series would be to her. I don't think she would have been able to imagine her organ doing this in her wildest dreams.
My husband passed away just over two months ago. We love your music, and he wanted to come see the museum. I've been missing him like crazy, and that little dance break at the beginning reminded me of him. I got happy tears. Thanks for that. And the good tunes.
That foot switch is called a toe piston or toe stud and is generally used to recall preset combinations of stops, in case you don't have enough fingers to hit the thumb pistons and need to use your feet instead. In this case, since there's only one, my guess is that it was used as a general cancel (all stops off). That's not to say you couldn't order loads more and use them for all kinds of things! Disclaimer: I'm an organ enthusiast, not a professional organist.
Was about to say the same thing, I think that's exactly what it's for. Also not an expert by the way, I just happened to have read about foot pistons a while ago when I was clicking through Wikipedia :)
It could also be a "piano" button, quickly switching to just the soft flutes. Or it can be "stepper next", or it could switch between free stop selection and button presets. It is usually used to change stops during playing. But make it just a MIDI control button and do whatever you like with it. Some organ consoles have 10's of them
It could also be a Pedal to Great reversible - a toggle button that controls whether the Pedals are “coupled” to the Great organ pipes. When toggled off, the pedals control their own set of bass pipes, and when toggled on, they also control the lowest octaves of the main pipes! Super handy!
This project is so extraordinarily cool it’s hard to make a musical comparison. The recycling, the old and new, the analogue/digital, the human connections, the museum project and thus the open nature of it, the documentation, etc. - this is outstanding stuff, Sam.
Sam, just continue doing what you do, amazing content that we all love to see. It’s getting harder and harder to find the words to compliment your energy, passion and vision. Keep doing what you love and share this amazing journey. Great stuff.
I am soooo jealous of what your doing... I'm an organist and am slowly bringing my local churches organ back to full strength but nothing like on a scale your doing!! On the pedal board, that piston/button is called a toe piston. Normally there would be ten or so toe pistons which are used in a sequencer system, which essentially allows the organist to preset the stops they want to use for that piece and they can quickly select the registration for that piece. Often found in larger organs like Joan's Organ. If you look at the console, underneath each manual there should be other buttons... They might be numbered?? Those are also those sequencer buttons, but are called thumb pistons, but they do the same thing as the toe pistons. I believe the toe piston on the pedal board is just a cancel piston, which essentially returns all the stops that are drawn at that given point. It's basically one big reset button for the organ! I'm not entirely sure how the sequencer can be set up on an organ, like how you can set the presets, but you'll probably figure that out!. The organ I mostly play on is a small one manual plus pedal board, 10 stop organ, so there isn't a need for a sequencer. Well done you though for bringing Joan's Organ back to life, they are tricky to get going again once they stop working!
"A slightly dodgy piano sounds better than the most perfect piano in the world because it has more character." THANK YOU for saying that! I've mentioned to some musician friends that I like pianos that sound old and slightly out of tune for this very reason! They all think I am crazy and it's made some of their eye's twitch. Yes, having good tuning skills is important, but there is something to be said for appreciating the art in the imperfection! I'm so glad to hear you feel this way too.
there is a piano that is famously out of tune. I forget what they call it, Mrs. Brown's piano or something, but it was used in several well known songs. The Beatles have used it, it was also used in the Charlie Brown theme song (Linus and Lucy)
There's a lot to be said about an organ being slightly out of tune. This is unavoidable even with the most well-maintained organs due to weather fluctuations. In fact, a perfectly in-tune organ does sound somewhat artificial. But there is a clear distinction between sounding natural and sounding like a fairground organ.
Not to mention that "perfectly in tune" is a rather dodgy concept to begin with. While most who have grown up with modern western music might feel that a 12TET piano feels "in tune", that doesn't change that every interval apart from octaves is different from a just interval, some (like the thirds and sixths) enough that most untrained ears can hear it.
@@fryloc359 I think you are talking about the Mrs. Mills piano in Abbey Road studios. It's a Steinway Vertegrand from 1905 using lacquered hammers and is slightly detuned for making a sharper tone with a wide character.
Sam, as an organist myself, this is fantastic. You are a genius. Your understanding of equal temperament vs just intonation shows the huge depth of your knowledge. Oh - that thing on the pedal board is a foot or toe piston, there are usually several of these and they are used to change the registration, couple manuals together etc.
I don't think people say this enough: you are a bloody genius. I know you're just mucking about and having fun, but you will never know how many people you've inspired
This is amazing Sam! That musical piece is a work of art, can't help thinking about how awesome it is to see you jamming along your creations, thanks for letting us being witnesses of this process. Keep it up please! this is being awesome in all aspects.
I love the combination of modular synth and organ. They weirdly fit together. That piece you played felt even more authentic than your music does anyway. Love it.
Yes! That button on the pedalboard is a preset button! You can press it with yor foot to change presets if your hands are both on the keyboard! But there is only one and I don't know if pressing it multiple times would have changed preset, maybe with the circuit boards you've cutted of from the organ . Il turns on the stops (or switches as you call them haha) with the electro-magnetic system you explained on the museum channel. And I hope you know that lifting the pipe from her mouth, specially the lead ones, can de-voice the pipe ahahahah. That's The most beautiful project you've ever done!
That jam was one of the coolest things I've seen/heard. I also prefer the non-equal temperament. I thought it gave the jam a really interesting edge that kept it from sounding like every other thing you find on youtube.
Far out ...Sam mucks around with cosmo and the organ and something new and fresh comes out. Love it. Such a great journey Joans organ the saga continues..
No one else I know of is utilizing modular, MIDI, or music gear in such a truly creative and artistic way. I LOVE it!. I get so tired of people demonstrating off-the-shelf modules, or promoting the latest paid product placement from Korg or Elektron. Your projects are truly inspiring, entertaining, and humbling.
I honestly believe that classical composers would of been very impressed with the harmonics and capabilities of synthesizers and your ability to bring out the best of both worlds with old world instruments and technology and new wave ideas and creativity. Absolutely beautiful and brilliant 💖
You are part techno-mage, part modern cryptid. You make this all look so effortless. As a maker myself, I understand how much effort actually goes into projects. I understand how all this works, and yet, I'm continuously bewildered by your amazing work.
Brother your passion is inspiring as all get out. I love that you started this as green at the gills as can be about organs ...and now you're explaining how it will work when it's set up. Legendary.
I'm an pipe organ tech in the USA. Don't worry, it will still have plenty of 'character' even if you tune equal temp to the meter IMHO. Pipes are always all over the place just by the nature of the beast. Or tune directly to your synth pitches. Thanks for video. Very enjoyable! Love when people do something very different with the pipe organ. Helps keep it alive in pop culture.
The organ has discrete sounds, so you have to rely on quantizers to output actual notes right? But since some of the interesting sounds happen with combination of different registers - is there a better solution than having a massive polyphonic synth? Perhaps scaling, shifting and reversing the quantization(with modulation)
There are trailer mounted fairground organs/orchestrions, that run on continuous fan-folded punched cards in a fashion not dissimilar to a pianola roll. Working examples are getting pretty rare now, but I believe the odd one has been converted to include MIDI interface electronics as well as the original punched card stack, it's easy enough in theory but a bit tougher in practice to get it to work well.
when this project is finished, you had put it on a truck and go on world tour! this would be so so great! and if you do might doing it, please make a stop in Berlin and rock this city! your are absoulutely fantastic genius guy! best wishes from Berlin 🤗
I’m jealous that each rank of pipes is individually addressable on its own MIDI channel. At our church we have a MIDI-enabled pipe organ but you can’t address each rank of pipes separately - only each keyboard - and we have 2 keyboards and one pedalboard, so 3 channels. You can control which ranks are enabled on each keyboard. It makes perfect sense if you’re playing the organ as an organ, but it’s less useful if you want to play with sequencers etc. Keep it up, I’m really enjoying this saga 😄
Impressive project. I'm too old for this stuff so it's really great to see you go at it. 2:57 is by far the most concise explanation of what MIDI is, ever. Just call it “Mixed Temperament” and leave everything as is. Give anyone who asks the same explanation. I totally agree with your notion that the difference in temperament adds character. Engage the temperaments judiciously and when that works out it leads to unique sound that is not possible to generate otherwise. Also, it's art. Imperfect expression is a given.
Love to see the progress on this! A little detune really adds character and heart to the organ, but yeah, if it's gonna play nicely with other instruments, there's really no better than equal temperament.
This is an absolutely amazing project, a giant undertaking of godly nature. The organ is the grandfather of all synths in my opinion, an instrument of intellect and skill, both of which you have demonstrated in spades. I can't wait to see the evolution of Joan's organ, I believe you are doing something here of extreme value, for teaching, preserving and promoting arts. All the best :)
This is beyond epic. This is... I don't know. It's Hans Zimmer level. I can only imagine this performance in a large auditorium, with the proper reverb and that drum line just booming over the audience. Then Hollywood picking it up for a space odyssey big scale production. Or Square Enix making it their new Deus EX OST. WHY ARE YOU NOT FAMOUS YET?!?!? Damn...
I 100% agree that a SLIGHTLY out of tune piano has way more character than a perfect, equal temperament tuning, but Sam you're the first other person I've found who agrees! I've always said, "piano in the basement of the small-turn chapel" but the idea is the same. People usually look at me funny when I say that though. Thanks for being a bro!
The nice thing about adding those lights, is it's not just to look cool. (Although it definitely has that aspect.) I bet those also help out a hell of a lot as a diagnostic tool to show the signals are actually doing what they're supposed to be doing, so it doubles as a trouble-shooting tool. You get the light show happening in the right spots, you know it should be all good. Fits in well with the modern modular systems integrated with the old-school physical hardware.
That button on the foot pedals may have been to switch between 2 different groups of stops. So you don't have to use your hand to flick all the switches.
The button on the pedalboard that you asked about, (a toe stud) could have been used for several different things. Since there is just one on the right hand side, my guess is one of two things. It's either a coupler (probably great to pedal - that is, the pedal plays all of the stops used on the great manual as well as the pedal stops). Or, it's a sforzando or tutti pedal that turns on all of the stops on the organ. In either case, it's reversible, that is pressing it once turns it on, pressing it again turns it off. There might be a label on the console for this. I've played organs with several toe studs mounted like this on the pedalboard but with the labels on the vertical board that's part of the console. If you can't figure out what Joan used it for, just use it however it works best for you!
Love the T-Shirt Joan is now Ship Shape and Bristol Fashion. ( a Fishermans Friend will always clear the pipes) All the work yous have done so far is incredible and fantastic. Huge kudos to begin with for rescuing the organ, removing it, transporting it and then getting it to work with and alongside modern technology is genius. The tech know how alchemy has used Fire and wind to create TechnOrganic Music. This Organ Joan, and the midi interfacing set up should be on permanent exhibition in the main hall in the Tate Modern Museum London. Many thanks.
This project is your Masterpiece. Congratulations the Best choice of all I Love it So Cool. A puré Analog Organ in a Digital world. Looking forward to see all those original parts, pedals, switches and maybe organ keyboard. Together. 😊
Such a surreal sight of that synth controlling the organ. I've been following along with this project from the beginning and I'm so excited how it's turning out! Also that busted D key is another cherry on top👌
So freaking cool! I would say magic happens when a note is perfectly in tune with the other octaves, it’s like a “constructive interference ring”? The sound as a whole seems to snap together and overall clarity and resonance is improved. That doesn’t mean everything has to be pitch perfect, but it can be achieved if the pipes are tuned to each other and rest of the ensemble. (That’s why some ensembles tune to one member rather than a tuner.) I also like that that ‘pub’ feel, it has a more warm and textured sound. It’s more inviting and human sounding. I think it sounds sick! This also seems like one of those paintings that are never complete. Keep your vision strong, don’t let others boss you into changing your vision.
Every time I see you I feel like I've been transported back to the late 70's, 80's or early 90's. I can't place any particular artist but hairstyle, clothes, music... It all reminds me of the synth music scene of these years. It was pretty chaotic period with a lot of punk influences still coloring the scene. Synth music was the red headed stepchild. Often dismissed as not being real music as a synth was "just a collection of electronical components and not a real instrument". Synth Punk was a quite given fusion, neither of them getting much recognition from media. Music was fun back then. Always changing, new styles appearing often sever times a year, and when MTV came along they showed just about anything as long as someone made a music video.
Glad you don't know what you're doing! The difference i believe between you and many others is that you know you don't know so you find the answer or practice the method before the critical moment. I enjoy watching your videos and I think you know more than you let us see at times :)
You have to invite a classical church organ player in the future to play this beauty as a kind of past vs future thingy to honor the effort of preserving and transforming a piece of history. :)
Hearing you talk about tuning and the aesthetic of being slightly off reminds me of the Edgar Allen Poe quotation: “There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.” So true. Keep up the great work, your enthusiasm is incredible and I can’t wait to see where this project goes next.
Next out of season open days at the museum are this weekend! Link in the description for more info
the full jam for the vid was uploaded last week over here www.patreon.com/lookmumnocomputer
@Thomas Yeats in case you don't know, that board was probably taken from the church. It's used to show the numbers in the hymnal for the hymns that will be sung during service.
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Suggest making that stomp pedal ALL NOTES OFF.
I built a set of Moog Taurus II pedals into a MIDI controller and if you get switch bounce, the ALL NOTES OFF is super useful :)
In my case I built it into the pedal logic if you his the lowest and 2nd highest at the same time (unlikely to ever want to PLAY that combination!)
I absolutely love your energy joy and tenacity to continue to build and play the most complex and largest musical instrument in the history of the world that can be played by one man. YOU BELONG IN THE Guinness Book of World Records !🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🎊🧨 Come in here boy ,have a cigar.....
I’m not sure but that foot button I believe it’s called a foot stop And it’s automatic pulls your stops for you or it Cancels the stops so you don’t have to push them in or flip them with your hands While you’re playing
I love that you still call it Joan's organ. She lives on in your recreation.
Agreed, its a really nice touch
it seemed right! it has been uprooted 4 times in its life but everyone knew it as joans organ so would be wrong to change its name! :D
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER I'm sure Joan is looking down on you shouting "YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOURE DOING SAM!"
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER 4 times? Where else has it been? Also, do you reckon Joans family might give us a chat about her and the organ? She sounds like a proper legend.
I'm trying to imagine how completely nonsensical everything in this series would be to her. I don't think she would have been able to imagine her organ doing this in her wildest dreams.
My husband passed away just over two months ago. We love your music, and he wanted to come see the museum. I've been missing him like crazy, and that little dance break at the beginning reminded me of him. I got happy tears. Thanks for that. And the good tunes.
That foot switch is called a toe piston or toe stud and is generally used to recall preset combinations of stops, in case you don't have enough fingers to hit the thumb pistons and need to use your feet instead. In this case, since there's only one, my guess is that it was used as a general cancel (all stops off). That's not to say you couldn't order loads more and use them for all kinds of things!
Disclaimer: I'm an organ enthusiast, not a professional organist.
Was about to say the same thing, I think that's exactly what it's for. Also not an expert by the way, I just happened to have read about foot pistons a while ago when I was clicking through Wikipedia :)
It could also be a "piano" button, quickly switching to just the soft flutes. Or it can be "stepper next", or it could switch between free stop selection and button presets. It is usually used to change stops during playing. But make it just a MIDI control button and do whatever you like with it. Some organ consoles have 10's of them
Me too, my guess is that if you press it multiple times, with the original circuit boards, it jumps between all the presets on the thumb pistons...
It’s a ‘Full Organ` pedal for maximum change of volume. Some organs have multiple toe studs or toe pistons for exactly the reason you point out.
It could also be a Pedal to Great reversible - a toggle button that controls whether the Pedals are “coupled” to the Great organ pipes. When toggled off, the pedals control their own set of bass pipes, and when toggled on, they also control the lowest octaves of the main pipes! Super handy!
This project is so extraordinarily cool it’s hard to make a musical comparison. The recycling, the old and new, the analogue/digital, the human connections, the museum project and thus the open nature of it, the documentation, etc. - this is outstanding stuff, Sam.
Listening to some old DOS game MIDI files through this thing would be incredible. ROTT springs to mind. Big orchestral style songs in that game
Lucas Arts Midi files are quite some around on the web. They have great sound track
I was personally thinking some 40k music like Children of The Omnissiah or Noosphere
Sam, just continue doing what you do, amazing content that we all love to see. It’s getting harder and harder to find the words to compliment your energy, passion and vision. Keep doing what you love and share this amazing journey. Great stuff.
Sam, the big mushroom foot switch is the launch button. You hook it up to the ejection bench under the performer.
There is no end to Sam's ingenuity, skills and talent! Brilliant work.
I am soooo jealous of what your doing... I'm an organist and am slowly bringing my local churches organ back to full strength but nothing like on a scale your doing!!
On the pedal board, that piston/button is called a toe piston. Normally there would be ten or so toe pistons which are used in a sequencer system, which essentially allows the organist to preset the stops they want to use for that piece and they can quickly select the registration for that piece. Often found in larger organs like Joan's Organ. If you look at the console, underneath each manual there should be other buttons... They might be numbered?? Those are also those sequencer buttons, but are called thumb pistons, but they do the same thing as the toe pistons.
I believe the toe piston on the pedal board is just a cancel piston, which essentially returns all the stops that are drawn at that given point. It's basically one big reset button for the organ! I'm not entirely sure how the sequencer can be set up on an organ, like how you can set the presets, but you'll probably figure that out!. The organ I mostly play on is a small one manual plus pedal board, 10 stop organ, so there isn't a need for a sequencer.
Well done you though for bringing Joan's Organ back to life, they are tricky to get going again once they stop working!
Sometimes the internet seems useful
"A slightly dodgy piano sounds better than the most perfect piano in the world because it has more character." THANK YOU for saying that! I've mentioned to some musician friends that I like pianos that sound old and slightly out of tune for this very reason! They all think I am crazy and it's made some of their eye's twitch. Yes, having good tuning skills is important, but there is something to be said for appreciating the art in the imperfection! I'm so glad to hear you feel this way too.
there is a piano that is famously out of tune. I forget what they call it, Mrs. Brown's piano or something, but it was used in several well known songs. The Beatles have used it, it was also used in the Charlie Brown theme song (Linus and Lucy)
Sometimes I even like things that are WAAAYYY out of tune, subtlety be damned. I'm not even kidding🤣
There's a lot to be said about an organ being slightly out of tune. This is unavoidable even with the most well-maintained organs due to weather fluctuations. In fact, a perfectly in-tune organ does sound somewhat artificial. But there is a clear distinction between sounding natural and sounding like a fairground organ.
Not to mention that "perfectly in tune" is a rather dodgy concept to begin with. While most who have grown up with modern western music might feel that a 12TET piano feels "in tune", that doesn't change that every interval apart from octaves is different from a just interval, some (like the thirds and sixths) enough that most untrained ears can hear it.
@@fryloc359 I think you are talking about the Mrs. Mills piano in Abbey Road studios. It's a Steinway Vertegrand from 1905 using lacquered hammers and is slightly detuned for making a sharper tone with a wide character.
Sam, as an organist myself, this is fantastic. You are a genius. Your understanding of equal temperament vs just intonation shows the huge depth of your knowledge. Oh - that thing on the pedal board is a foot or toe piston, there are usually several of these and they are used to change the registration, couple manuals together etc.
I get the detuning, but the pipes do that naturally. Tune it as well as you can!
I don't think people say this enough: you are a bloody genius. I know you're just mucking about and having fun, but you will never know how many people you've inspired
I was really surprised on how well the Organ sounds mixed with the synth. That is awesome. You make the Organ sound not obsolete. How cool is that
This is amazing Sam! That musical piece is a work of art, can't help thinking about how awesome it is to see you jamming along your creations, thanks for letting us being witnesses of this process. Keep it up please! this is being awesome in all aspects.
That beat absolutely rips, brother! 🤩
This has gotten to be one of my top favorite projects on here. You're a legend, keep it up.
I love the combination of modular synth and organ. They weirdly fit together. That piece you played felt even more authentic than your music does anyway. Love it.
awesome - we need the a full track of that masterpiece
Yes! That button on the pedalboard is a preset button! You can press it with yor foot to change presets if your hands are both on the keyboard! But there is only one and I don't know if pressing it multiple times would have changed preset, maybe with the circuit boards you've cutted of from the organ . Il turns on the stops (or switches as you call them haha) with the electro-magnetic system you explained on the museum channel. And I hope you know that lifting the pipe from her mouth, specially the lead ones, can de-voice the pipe ahahahah. That's The most beautiful project you've ever done!
That jam was one of the coolest things I've seen/heard. I also prefer the non-equal temperament. I thought it gave the jam a really interesting edge that kept it from sounding like every other thing you find on youtube.
Far out ...Sam mucks around with cosmo and the organ and something new and fresh comes out. Love it. Such a great journey Joans organ the saga continues..
Why, sir, you have a mighty fine organ !
👍😆
He plays with his organ way too much, it must be the work of Satan! /s
SAM! IT LOOKS LIKE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOIN! (So happy to see how far along this has come!)
The mash-up between synth and organ sounds amazing. Such a unique style, love it
I think the organ being just ever so slightly out of tune gives it a lot of flavor and character, so I am definitely with you on that
It's kinda the difference between a church organ and a fairground organ.
Sounds phenomenal Sam!
No one else I know of is utilizing modular, MIDI, or music gear in such a truly creative and artistic way. I LOVE it!. I get so tired of people demonstrating off-the-shelf modules, or promoting the latest paid product placement from Korg or Elektron. Your projects are truly inspiring, entertaining, and humbling.
Проделано очень много работы на самом деле - вызывает уважение и легкую зависть)
When the snare drum sound finally comes in, you know it’s gonna be exiting. This was so cool to listen to.
I honestly believe that classical composers would of been very impressed with the harmonics and capabilities of synthesizers and your ability to bring out the best of both worlds with old world instruments and technology and new wave ideas and creativity. Absolutely beautiful and brilliant 💖
過去の声と現代ミュージックの融合！ 楽しく聞かせていただきました。ありがとう
A fusion of old voices and contemporary music! "I enjoyed listening to you." Thank you.
That jam 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
It already sounds amazing. I'm waiting for more music with synth and pipes
You are part techno-mage, part modern cryptid. You make this all look so effortless. As a maker myself, I understand how much effort actually goes into projects. I understand how all this works, and yet, I'm continuously bewildered by your amazing work.
Brother your passion is inspiring as all get out. I love that you started this as green at the gills as can be about organs ...and now you're explaining how it will work when it's set up. Legendary.
I'm an pipe organ tech in the USA. Don't worry, it will still have plenty of 'character' even if you tune equal temp to the meter IMHO. Pipes are always all over the place just by the nature of the beast. Or tune directly to your synth pitches. Thanks for video. Very enjoyable! Love when people do something very different with the pipe organ. Helps keep it alive in pop culture.
man! that jam...
The organ has discrete sounds, so you have to rely on quantizers to output actual notes right? But since some of the interesting sounds happen with combination of different registers - is there a better solution than having a massive polyphonic synth? Perhaps scaling, shifting and reversing the quantization(with modulation)
Gorgeous sound, they were made for each other! Imagine taking this setup to festivals
Yes! But he'll need some more roadies...
There are trailer mounted fairground organs/orchestrions, that run on continuous fan-folded punched cards in a fashion not dissimilar to a pianola roll. Working examples are getting pretty rare now, but I believe the odd one has been converted to include MIDI interface electronics as well as the original punched card stack, it's easy enough in theory but a bit tougher in practice to get it to work well.
That's the Organotron! Spectacular show, I absobloodylutely love it.
So cool. Your videos feed my inventive side.
Your so cool 😅
when this project is finished, you had put it on a truck and go on world tour! this would be so so great! and if you do might doing it, please make a stop in Berlin and rock this city! your are absoulutely fantastic genius guy! best wishes from Berlin 🤗
An electrician, musician, historian and I absolutely love the Fisherman’s Friend T-Shirt !
This is an amazing video and performance! Wow, just WOW! and THANKS! You are brilliant!
Dude has a level of gumption and determination I can't event begin to understand. Excellent stuff.
Dude it just amazes me again and again how you can just make such good songs!!
I’m jealous that each rank of pipes is individually addressable on its own MIDI channel. At our church we have a MIDI-enabled pipe organ but you can’t address each rank of pipes separately - only each keyboard - and we have 2 keyboards and one pedalboard, so 3 channels. You can control which ranks are enabled on each keyboard. It makes perfect sense if you’re playing the organ as an organ, but it’s less useful if you want to play with sequencers etc. Keep it up, I’m really enjoying this saga 😄
Long live, Joan! May she be the center of many raves to come!
Had a lovely time Sam,won't be scared to try it again..great music great effort mate👍👍
Did we miss part 8? :D
One of the best series you've done so far! One can really see your heart being poured into this project
Your Mad! The Mad Scientist of pipe organ! Bringing this into a new age of music. This is great and I love what your doing here!
I seriously doubt there’s a person on the planet having as much fun as you there. That’s one awesome setup.
Impressive project. I'm too old for this stuff so it's really great to see you go at it.
2:57 is by far the most concise explanation of what MIDI is, ever.
Just call it “Mixed Temperament” and leave everything as is. Give anyone who asks the same explanation.
I totally agree with your notion that the difference in temperament adds character. Engage the temperaments judiciously and when that works out it leads to unique sound that is not possible to generate otherwise.
Also, it's art. Imperfect expression is a given.
Love to see the progress on this! A little detune really adds character and heart to the organ, but yeah, if it's gonna play nicely with other instruments, there's really no better than equal temperament.
I feel like I need that Fisherman's Friend shirt
lol, I didn't notice it
You are a grafter Sam, i wish I had your energy and enthusiasm !
Great music with the thing I love an organ! You know your stuff and I love your energy! I am enjoying your enjoyment
This is an absolutely amazing project, a giant undertaking of godly nature. The organ is the grandfather of all synths in my opinion, an instrument of intellect and skill, both of which you have demonstrated in spades. I can't wait to see the evolution of Joan's organ, I believe you are doing something here of extreme value, for teaching, preserving and promoting arts. All the best :)
This is incredible. It's surely the highlight of the museum. Bringing the past ant the future together.
I love the way a synth and an organ blend such a rich sound
YES. I've been looking forward to the day the synths and organ met since the day you first bought the thing. Great stuff!!
This is beyond epic. This is... I don't know. It's Hans Zimmer level. I can only imagine this performance in a large auditorium, with the proper reverb and that drum line just booming over the audience.
Then Hollywood picking it up for a space odyssey big scale production. Or Square Enix making it their new Deus EX OST.
WHY ARE YOU NOT FAMOUS YET?!?!? Damn...
I 100% agree that a SLIGHTLY out of tune piano has way more character than a perfect, equal temperament tuning, but Sam you're the first other person I've found who agrees! I've always said, "piano in the basement of the small-turn chapel" but the idea is the same.
People usually look at me funny when I say that though. Thanks for being a bro!
Happy days mate! I could listen to you playing on that for days. I look forward to the next installment.
The nice thing about adding those lights, is it's not just to look cool. (Although it definitely has that aspect.) I bet those also help out a hell of a lot as a diagnostic tool to show the signals are actually doing what they're supposed to be doing, so it doubles as a trouble-shooting tool. You get the light show happening in the right spots, you know it should be all good. Fits in well with the modern modular systems integrated with the old-school physical hardware.
That button on the foot pedals may have been to switch between 2 different groups of stops. So you don't have to use your hand to flick all the switches.
Totally agree with your tuning argument. It gets more 'groove' when it's not perfectly tuned.
What's really impressive here is how much faith you have in those keyboard stands.
Sam, you're a bloody genious mate! You must have the patience of a saint to have got the organ running so well with the MIDI controller...
Awesome Sam -- great combo of air and electrons! Bach would love it!!!
came back here 2 times already just for the music! its so epic! great work !
The button on the pedalboard that you asked about, (a toe stud) could have been used for several different things. Since there is just one on the right hand side, my guess is one of two things. It's either a coupler (probably great to pedal - that is, the pedal plays all of the stops used on the great manual as well as the pedal stops). Or, it's a sforzando or tutti pedal that turns on all of the stops on the organ. In either case, it's reversible, that is pressing it once turns it on, pressing it again turns it off. There might be a label on the console for this. I've played organs with several toe studs mounted like this on the pedalboard but with the labels on the vertical board that's part of the console. If you can't figure out what Joan used it for, just use it however it works best for you!
It is very very capable and very beautifull, both the building and the music.
The Gift that keeps on giving. I love everything about the Organ-Storyline. Hope to come visit sometime next year.
How your not in the mill subs is mind boggling. Your content has always been top notch. Hope to travel and visit that magical place one day.
Love the T-Shirt Joan is now Ship Shape and Bristol Fashion. ( a Fishermans Friend will always clear the pipes)
All the work yous have done so far is incredible and fantastic. Huge kudos to begin with for rescuing the organ, removing it, transporting it and then getting it to work with and alongside modern technology is genius.
The tech know how alchemy has used Fire and wind to create TechnOrganic Music. This Organ Joan, and the midi interfacing set up should be on permanent exhibition in the main hall in the Tate Modern Museum London. Many thanks.
This just gets more awesome with every video. Can't wait to see what's in store!
Man, you are living my dream now. Pipe organ and synths - perfection!
Fantastic work Sam! Thanks for taking us on this journey
WORTH IT! every bit of work you put into this organ has paid off. that sounds awesome. unique piece of kit.
This project is your Masterpiece. Congratulations the Best choice of all I Love it So Cool. A puré Analog Organ in a Digital world. Looking forward to see all those original parts, pedals, switches and maybe organ keyboard. Together. 😊
I like the slightly out of tune sound too. It adds a huge amount of character.
yeah! it does. makes it sound real. well it is real but yeah ha. you cant fake a pub piano :D haha
I love that you’re using it to make music already. Not obsolete indeed.
Such a surreal sight of that synth controlling the organ. I've been following along with this project from the beginning and I'm so excited how it's turning out! Also that busted D key is another cherry on top👌
loved the jam, it worked better than I anticipated, that must be so much fun do, it put a big smile on my face, great stuff!
Thanks for putting a big smile on my face again! Very much appreciated these days (:
So freaking cool!
I would say magic happens when a note is perfectly in tune with the other octaves, it’s like a “constructive interference ring”? The sound as a whole seems to snap together and overall clarity and resonance is improved.
That doesn’t mean everything has to be pitch perfect, but it can be achieved if the pipes are tuned to each other and rest of the ensemble. (That’s why some ensembles tune to one member rather than a tuner.)
I also like that that ‘pub’ feel, it has
a more warm and textured sound. It’s more inviting and human sounding.
I think it sounds sick!
This also seems like one of those paintings that are never complete. Keep your vision strong, don’t let others boss you into changing your vision.
I had thought that the organ was gonna outgrow the room. Nice to see it has room to breathe... *literally.*
*It's alive! ALIVE!!* 🧟♂
Every time I see you I feel like I've been transported back to the late 70's, 80's or early 90's. I can't place any particular artist but hairstyle, clothes, music... It all reminds me of the synth music scene of these years. It was pretty chaotic period with a lot of punk influences still coloring the scene. Synth music was the red headed stepchild. Often dismissed as not being real music as a synth was "just a collection of electronical components and not a real instrument". Synth Punk was a quite given fusion, neither of them getting much recognition from media. Music was fun back then. Always changing, new styles appearing often sever times a year, and when MTV came along they showed just about anything as long as someone made a music video.
The improv part is just amazing - and already answered my question about blending the two technologies together. Only you can pull it off.
that's so good musicality . Thank you to share your art man ☀️🙏
Holy shit Sam!!! I have no words to describe what I've witnessed and heard.
The sounds combined were awesome! Looking forward to the evolution
Glad you don't know what you're doing! The difference i believe between you and many others is that you know you don't know so you find the answer or practice the method before the critical moment. I enjoy watching your videos and I think you know more than you let us see at times :)
It would be great to have Anna Lapwood coming to play it once you have the console working!
You have to invite a classical church organ player in the future to play this beauty as a kind of past vs future thingy to honor the effort of preserving and transforming a piece of history. :)
Hearing you talk about tuning and the aesthetic of being slightly off reminds me of the Edgar Allen Poe quotation: “There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.” So true. Keep up the great work, your enthusiasm is incredible and I can’t wait to see where this project goes next.
Mate you are great. I can listen for hours at you playing.
Big support and thanks for the unique contents
I've been waiting for the moment the organ becomes a part of Kosmo.
Bloody amazing job as always, Sam!
Good luck to him taking that on tours