Making a Wooden Pipe Organ
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2021
- The making of a 42 note wooden pipe organ (range: C3 - F6 with a rank of Bourdon 4' pipes) with walnut and maple key tops and other mostly at-hand materials for the rest of the components, such as an old cabinet for the keyboard frame, leftover screws and spring steel from a scraper for the valves, paperclips for the key-to-valve links, and plastic irrigation tubing to connect the pipes to the windchest holes.
The design elements of this organ are a mixture of a variety of other organ designs. I wanted to create an organ with pipes sitting atop the organ for both aesthetics and sound quality but wanted to avoid using a tracker-style roller board to convey the action of the keys to the windchest as I felt it would be too complicated for a simple 1 rank organ. Because of this, I decided to create a variation on Matthias Wandel's organ windchest design by creating valves that stayed in place with a screw and were directly above each key, requiring only a simple linear key-to-valve linkage. Taking inspiration from more classical organ designs (specifically, what was described in Mark Wick's "Organ Building for Amateurs"), I decided to create a foot-pumped bellows to supply wind for the organ, replacing the sound of an electric blower with intermittent slams of the foot roller against the bellows. I might use an electric blower if I were to build something like this again.
Helpful resource for pipe dimensions:
www.rwgiangiulio.com/construct...
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Keyboard
3:38 - Windchest
6:23 - Key/Windchest valve action example
6:50 - Toeboard
9:20 - Pipes
16:00 - Music on finished instrument
Magnifico!!!!!!
Bach sounds good on every instrument built with love.
Your organ has few more pipes than the air calliopes that played for the circus in the 1950s but the adjustable stoped quarter-wave pipes sure sound a lot like they did. That is really impressive work.
Thank you! I am pleased with the sound of the organ though I admit the draw of using stopped pipes was more towards saving space and using less material than it was towards sounding like a calliope per se.
Respect!!! for what this guy is able to create: both hardware and software 👏👏👏👏
Bach's "Great" fugue in G minor! Beautiful on these wooden pipes!
I'm trying to build a street organ and i almost gave up on it, but then i saw your video and your technique for making pipes. I tried to make pipes like you and just got the first sound out of it. Thanks for saving the project!
Glad my video was helpful. Getting dimensions such as the windslot and mouth height accurate to within thousandths of an inch is important when making good organ pipes from my experience.
For anyone wandering what that first piece he plays is, it's BWV 542 - Fantasia & Fugue in G Minor.
Now that's amazing! No only a master carpenter but an organist as well. And the voicing of the pipe are pretty good. Awesome job!
W O W What a craftsman and musician. What a beautiful sound. I loved this video
Thank you!
It certainly has a lovely voice. Well done.
Nice work. Shows what can be done with simple tools and cheap material.
That's a wondeful project!!! It results very placentful to me to listen an example of Bach's fugues. Congratulations!
Thank you! I have another video on my channel of another bach prelude on the organ as well.
@@cas_creations I will watch it! Thanks! I'm trying to make a pipe organ because you've inspired me.
Organ from scrap can sounds beautifull! Congratulations!
WOW!! UNBELIEVABLE!! - Jerry of San Diego
Thanks dear friend. Very Nice work. Here in Brasil studding the instruments make
this is epic, building something to sound that good with just what you have around you, and then -playing some Bach to top it off, wow, cheers mate! I also enjoyed the concertina videos, very impressed! I hope your still out there working on some more amazing garage masterpieces.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed my videos.
This is awesome! A complex instrument built from the ground up, even the keys. Very impressive!
Damn dude, that's so Impresive, congratualtions
Bach- Fantasie und fugue g minor
Bach- Prelude und fugue c minor WTC II
Nice! Thanks for posting.
Oh my!! Well done!!! It has an unbelievably gorgeous sound.
Nice job! So impressive!
I realy appreciate what you are doing. keep making these amazing videos we're behind you
Thank you!
Hear hear! So glad to have found this channel!
So much ingenuity and talent! Will be checking here regularly to see what you're up to next. Cheers. ✌️🎵
Can you play the little fugue in g minor?? That would be awesome even without the foot pedals
Great work on the production of the pipe organ. You should be proud to create something with your hands.
Wow! That's amazing!
Very well done! Considering the quality of the materials used, you have produced a very nice little instrument. The Bach sounded great on it! When I saw you ripping up veneered chipboard I almost turned it off lol but you have made a silk purse from sows ears materials. As an ex organ builder there were some questionable practices but the proof of the pudding is in the playing. So once again well done !
Thank you! The goal was to produce a playable instrument with as little expense as possible and to that end I feel relatively satisfied but certainly would change some things if I were to do something similar again.
Nice sound, sounds like a panflute
It's even got nice chiff! Love it!
Thanks. Although pipe voicing wasn't my forte and some pipes had more than others I was pleased with the sound.
Fantastic work. I love the use of found/cheap materials to create such a beautifully playable instrument. The bellow pressurizers are quite a nice touch :)
You've renewed a hope to resume working on mine someday soon.
Thank you! I hope you find success with yours.
@@cas_creations thanks! I'll make a video or two when I get around to working on it again.
Would you tell me the name of the piece/s you played at the end? Beautiful.
@@woodsmith_1 Thanks, First piece is Bach - Great Fugue in G minor, second is Bach - Prelude in C minor, WTC book II.
Beautiful sound of the pipes!
A beautiful instrument they have built, I like it.
Fantastic.
Beautiful !
amazing! inspiring!
Beautifully done. Sounds good too.
GREAT job!
Wow, it is super awesome!!
Magnífico! Parabéns!
Very well done! ☺️😁👍
Great work here! 👍
soo cool. i love this. very nice work
Good Job, very impressive!
One flute pipe orgen. 👍👍👍
Extraordinarily! Respect! Well done!
Nice 🎉
You are very talented. Great work!
This is really cool!
This is an amazing idea.
Absolutely amazing work 🙏
,😯Brutal, Excelente!!!
Fascinating
Great!
Awesome outcome! Perhaps with a bit of an upgrade to the ballow it will be even more constant. But I really love the sound of the pipes. Maybe I will also start building one!
Inspiring!
What a random video suggestion by TH-cam, but so satisfying to watch and well done. I am imagining myself now, starting to build one, but then I realised I don't have the patience nor the skills, but maybe one day. love it!
You are crazy, but its a genius
Please do some hymn playing and other organ updates.
Brilliant
And where can I find the measurements of everything in this video? :)
cool organ
👍genius
Well done! You stayed with your vision all the way to performing! Raphi Giangiulio and Catalina Vicens would find you worthwhile to meet.
Thank you, that is quite the compliment.
Amazing work, can make a video of building a roman hydraulic organ ?
wow
Muchas gracias, aquì encontre la info que me faltaba. Excelente
Where can I find the measuring of the wood pipes?
Great Work! I am Currently Designing a organ much like this this summer. I am having trouble finding resources for dimensions for wooden pipes. Do you have any links to charts or tips?
Thank you. There is a lot of information on pipe organs out there on the internet. One of the most helpful resources to me was www.rwgiangiulio.com/construction/, which gives specifics on the construction of nearly all parts of a 5 rank homemade pipe organ. I used the dimensions under 'Bourdon Pipes' from this website to build all of the pipes in the video.
@@cas_creations thanks! This is all the information I needed to get building. Good luck with your organ!
@@theyoungbarista6715 usually, the way pipes are made is that the languid, bottom, and a top are sliced from one board and glued to the back. Then it is easy to glue the sides to the back and languid. Once it's done, the top is trimmed off.
This is probably the most intensive project I have ever seen in my life. It's massive! The keyboard alone is a worthy endeavour for years of study and work.
Amazing work!
How about making a windblower?
Any photos or videos of the windblower?
I am very interested in making it.
Thanks! The wind is supplied by a foot-pumped bellows, similar to how a reed organ works (you can see a short clip of it at 16:05). When you push on the foot-lever, it pushes a roller against a feeder bellows, which supplies air to a reservoir bellows above.
great job, try to add bigger bellows and blower to give it power for playing bigger chords
Very well done and kudos for using "to hand" materials rather than running to a specialty sawmill, buying aged timbers at considerable expense for a result that to most ears, would be but marginally better than what you have. The complexity of organs beggars the imagination if the diagrams and instructions of Dom Bedos are any indication! FYI - I have found useful strips of thin spring steel that can be salvaged from "finished" vehicle windscreen wiper blades.
Thank you! I am pleased with the sound of the pipes, considering they are just plywood. I've wanted to build a pipe organ for a long time but couldn't justify the high cost of materials so I experimented with things a couple times and ended up with this. My source of spring steel was actually a 10 inch taping knife from the big box store, funnily enough.
I wouldn't think I would get a reply to this, but what was tge piece at the end? The build was very cool and your playing and woodworking skill is deserving of my respect :)
Thanks. The last piece is Bach's Prelude in C minor from WTC 2.
@@cas_creations Thx ! :)
Wow! Have you ever thought about building a clavichord? 🙂
Yeah, an electric clavichord build may be in the cards at some point. Have wanted to build one of those for a while
I noticed that the leather in the stoppers crinkles, possibly compromising the seal. That might have been throwing the pitch off for some of the notes in the test run. Did you add an extra layer of material to get a more reliable seal?
When I put the leathered stopper into the pipe in the video, the area of the stopper block was too small, but I made a larger piece to form a good seal after recording it. During the performance, some of the pipes were simply not finely tuned.
@@cas_creations That makes sense.
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Can you please build a mellotron type keyboard where it uses the tapes? That would be amazing
That would certainly be an interesting project.
Great job! Quick questoion, what did you use for the metal springs on the valves inside the windchest?
Thank you! The springs are strips of spring steel cut from a taping knife.
@@cas_creations ah ok, thanks!
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Are you tuned to "equal temperament" or "just intonation"?
Equal temperament
@@cas_creations I think that's a good choice. Thank you.
Now how about making a miniature harpsichord, or ottavino, with either gut strings or metal strings?
Maybe, could be a fun future project
I am not sure if you accept requests (Especially because this isn't very easy) but is there a way you could add an organ on to a piano?
Hi, I am unfortunately not taking requests at the moment. Sorry.
How did you space out the larger valves to be linearly connected with the keys? Furthermore, how did you link the natural and sharp note valve connectors to be on the same plane?
Instead of placing each valve in a linear chromatic sequence, I alternate the valves along a central axis where all of the valve linkages are placed, where each adjacent valve is a whole tone apart. In that respect it is very similar to Matthias Wandel's pipe organ windchest. Because there is a half inch of space between two semitones in the keyboard, I get an inch between each adjacent valve in the windchest, which is enough room for the windways of the larger pipes. My design wouldn't work if I decided to go an octave lower.
Ok, thanks
I'm thinking about doing something like this, but I'm not quite sure about the dimensions on the pipes. Would you be willing to give some more specific dimensions for the pipes, or at the very least explain how you found the correct dimension for the mouth of the pipe for it to make a good sound? Also, how did you determine the length and bore size for each individual note?
In the description is a link to a website containing dimensions for a full rank of stopped Bourdon pipes which I used to create mine. Good luck!
Thank you so much!
So the organ is basically a recorder ensemble
Yes
Impressive video! I am trying to make one too for one of my college classes. Could you please let me know any references for the dimensions of the pipes in relation to the notes? Thank you!!
Thank you. One of the most helpful resources to me was www.rwgiangiulio.com/construction/, which gives specifics on the construction of nearly all parts of a 5 rank homemade pipe organ. I used the dimensions under 'Bourdon Pipes' from this website to build all of the pipes in the video.
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Where can one get a blower for a small organ like this?
Not too sure. This one is powered with foot-pumped bellows but I may try to get something like that for it in the future.
Child - "I want a pipe organ for my birthday!"
Mother - "Oh darling we can not afford that..."
Dad - "I am going to live in the garage for a week..."
Это то, чему название исскуство исстиное.
me and the boys when it's boy's night:
I wanna buy this
what song is that you play
What wood can you use for the pipes? 🙂
Many different types of wood have been used for organ pipes in the past, such as mahogany, oak, pine, etc. A good choice is poplar for its good strength to weight ratio and price. I used plywood because I had a lot of it available and it worked well, but in the future I would probably use a hardwood for the upper lip/cap of the pipes.
@@cas_creations Thank you for your prompt reply. Is there a blueprint somewhere or the dimensions of the pipes. I would like to build an organ.
One of the most helpful resources to me was www.rwgiangiulio.com/construction/, which gives specifics on the construction of nearly all parts of a 5 rank homemade pipe organ. I used the dimensions under 'Bourdon Pipes' from this website to build all of the pipes in the video.
How much time did you spend?
I made a few attempts at an organ years before this that didn't go anywhere, but for this iteration it took a few months of concentrated work
@@cas_creationsok thank you, but few months for think about it and do it the project or just to have done it?
Who designed your organ?
Myself, with some help from websites such as this: www.rwgiangiulio.com
@@cas_creations thanks!
Where can I find it to buy?
Thanks for the interest, but it isn't available commercially at the moment
@@cas_creations Thanks for answer me. I will hope until it is being sold!!!
How much