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Is Grand Orgue similar to Hauptwerk?

Not only do you play magnificently, but you're an electronics whiz! Bravo, young man!

I would like to say, that I am realy impressed with how well it turned out. I would say that those components being old tend to blow up. It is mostly shorted capacitors and other stuff losing parameters, sometimes cracked zene diode. I hav a rule, that I deeply follow, to try to keep as much orginal stuff as possible, as it could be a lot of historical value some day. Since those power supplys (in place of fault) supply a low and mostly safe voltage I'd suggest tinkering with electronics yourself. Sometimes (and it looks like it in your case too the fix could had been only a couple of dollars and a great learning expirience. No matter whatt you've earned yourself a 69'th sub : ) ps. If you ever need help with this kind of electronics, reach out in the comments of one of my you tube videos. I would be happy to help : )

The term "pipe organ" refers to an organ that has least some "pipes."

Or buy a digital keyboard

Absolute genius!! I could tell by your voice that you were quite young, but I didn't guess you were still in high school. And then you took on this project with an outstandingly simple and inexpensive solution! I'm honestly in awe of your skills. I wish I'd seen your solution a few years ago, as I had a huge three manual Allen theater organ with many, many stops and presets in which something bad had happened to the sound processing capabilities. I sold it to someone for only $400, at a time when one like it in good working order would sell for close to $8,000. I'd have loved to do what you did with my organ, but, alas, it is king gone. Great work!!

Got any more details on build list, stl for you bracket and sketch you used? I got the free organ and pay 1200 for organ mover to move it and lots of out of tune keys.

An issue I’ve found with Rodgers organs is that the keyboards fail. Notes stop working and the technician tells us that replacement parts are not available. The only solution is to replace the whole keyboard which is cost prohibitive on a fifteen year old organ. Mine was a C series which I believe has Roland innards.

Woah!! I'm so impressed by your ingenuity -- not only with electronics, but with programming too! Excellent job!

Very, very cool! I am retired now, but in another life I was a Rodgers technician, and this is one of the models that I had worked on. That was many years ago. In the time since I have been an engineer designing electronic audio and digital products for a couple of small electronics firms (both now out of business) here in Oklahoma. What you have done is, in my opinion, nothing short of genius. By the way, I also have a Rodgers console of my own, a model 870, which was built in the early 80s. It was given to me by a church that used to be a customer of mine, so it is one that I had worked on a few times before. I restored it and made a few modifications, but it is mostly in its original form, with all the generators and keyers and formant circuits. I would like to MIDI-ize it like you did to this one. This has given me some good inspiration! God bless you!

Wonderful video

It seems my Farfisa organ that I am reforming. Have you some info how yo connect the keys to the arduino?

Thanks for posting. I have and old Allen at home, but zero engineering skills.

Hi Ben, Can you help with the Circuirt diagram of the midi controller?

What model organ was it originally? It looks a lot like the organ in my church which is a late ‘70s early ‘80s Rodgers 115. We’d love to have a digital someday. If this was a similar model organ this gives me hope it might be possible for way less than we thought!

James, hope you enjoyed playing my Galeries ancien. Wonderful performance! Bravo on the entire concert.

Wow, fantastic! I'm in a similar situation myself, I have an old electrical church organ from England dating from the 60s I think. Needed it to practise without the stress and time lost of trying to find a church close to me that would let me in to practise, etc. The old thing was fine until just like you, something went BANG! I lost a speaker and all the stops for manual I. Now, other notes are starting to go.... Today I looked at a new organ, completely digital with stops that can be pulled, a full church or chapel grade organ, two manuals, swell pedals, pipe organ feel-alike key action, etc the works, but they want 13,000 Euros for it! Yikes! I'd love to convert my old organ casing into a digital organ as the next option, perhaps even add some extra features such as a volume knob and transposer knob for choir practise, (transposing sheet music on sight is not one of my gifts, LOL!) It has a nice wooden case, but I don't think anyone in Portugal knows how to do digital conversions, and I certainly don't. You're blessed to be able to figure out how to do it yourself! Cheers!

I am considering a similar project. I have two consoles available but will probably use the Rodgers which is of better quality than the Galanti. The latter has some MIDI capability already but is deteriorating rapidly due to age. I don't want to mess with designing my own encoder so will probably use DTS encoders. A few hundred dollars is worth it in my case. I have both GrandOrgue and jOrgan both of which are quite good but will probably get new computer hardware for the project.

Brilliant, you are an inspiration! Well done.

hello! beautiful project. I saw your website with your project. Its incredible! I would like to do the same with my organ. Could you explain whit is there lots of resistors please? Thank you and congratulation!

I have a question. How did you modify the manuals? Thanks

Really enjoyed this video❤️

Ben! I'm in an OT class for seminary this fall, and I never QUITE learned this version of the OT song when I was in 6th GRADE, and I'm SO GLAD I FOUND THIS because it's the tune I have in my head. haha AMAZING

now hes younger and in university LOL

Great testimony! I'd like to ask for your permmission to add subtitles in Spanish and post it in our ministry's channel, Thanks

thats a good kid right there

cool kid and so smart wow

really encouraging testimony. thanks for uploading

Praise the LORD for this man's testimony and teaching!!!! Big revelations spoken here!

The sexual desires are actually hiding healthy desire to properly connect with other men - it just got clouded in the sexuality. The more secure you are in your identity in Christ, the more the realization that you are like other straight men, but more importantly, you are more like CHRIST HIMSELF! I Corinthians 6:9-11....redemption and sanctification in the name of Jesus Christ.

He's 8.5 years old in this video.

Excellent speech.

WOW!!! This young man was breaking down some serious truth here! God bless you!

I pray God's everlasting strength upon you.

Thanks for your message and thank God for drawing you to Him. How true -- there but for the Grace of god go I.

Just beautiful! Thank you for that powerful message! You encouraged me!!

Well watching this is not going to stop my best friend from being gay. Though just because he likes guys, why should that make him EVIL, he's one of the nicest and more loving people around my college campus. You have a problem, he'll go out of his way to help you. He doesn't prance around from party to party like some sort of favor. He helps his friends, and his family more than he helps himself. Why should the world find him sinful even when he gives so much more to the world than himself?

Well said. He gets the Gospel. I like the quote from Bonhoffer, who I very much admire.

I think you really need to check program 'Soft Way to Mozart' - your child would read music fluently and play many pieces with 2 hands with no time. Check my videos - I have many kidos of 3-4 year old to see the difference. And my students are not as talented as your child