DIY Practice Organ Construction / The Muse I See / EP 01
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- DIY Practice Organ Construction / The Muse I See / Episode 1
with Benjamin Garner
2 manuals, 32 key pedalbord.
How I built my own practice organ.
Thank you for watching!
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Not using Hauptwerk, but would consider using it in the future.
Leave a comment if you would like to see some content on Hauptwerk.
Special thanks to James Kosnik for permission to show him in this video.
Most organists need an affordable home organ for practising. All of what you have done is beyond my ken, although I did have the same idea about fishing line that someone else suggested. After attending masterclaßes at Collegedale with Harald Vogel, and having studied at a university with some organs with pedalboards of AGO standard, and some with straight, flat 30-note pedalboards, I prefer the latter. Thanks very much for sharing what you have figured out with others, so that they can achieve what they want with leß experimentation, and hopefully share their progreßion of ideas with you & others in return!
I like your mechanical method in coupling the pedals to a keyboard. It seems to me that we could learn and apply what Tracker pipe organ builders have done for centuries in coupling all the pedal notes to the manuals - in this case just one manual so it should be relatively simple to do.
Awesome job Benjamin
hi congratulations from Brazil.
Great Idea
I was looking for this because I had the same idea. I don't have the ability to make connections with arduino or similar. I thought about attaching a keyboard with strings to a pedalboard
You can do it!
Really well done man
thanks for checking it out!
I read your article in The American Organist magazine. Great job on building your DIY practice organ as well as the video and article. I always figured something like this was possible. I was curious where you got your pedal boards? Thanks for sharing!
Hey thanks for checking it out, and for your question. The 25 key key came from a Hammond organ, not sure exactly which model, and the 32 key came from an electrically damaged Rodgers two manual console that was at a Habitat for Humanity Restore, which cost me just over $100. Both worked well when coupled with string to the 49 key usb-midi keyboard. Have thoughts to restore the Rodgers console desk to functionality someday, or possibly gut it and adapt it for this project.
It is far easier to use reed switches for the pedalboard, and it is not expensive at all. Trust me if I can do it anyone can do it. Thanks for the video!
I considered reed-switches, but you also still need an additional MIDI encoder. I also considered trying a Raspberry PI as the encoder, but I already had these keyboards and pedalboard and wanted to see if this would work. Perhaps in my next iteration, (which I am planning on doing more) I will use reed switches and an encoder of some sort. Thanks for watching!
@@ffoninamhcar24 They are very reasonably priced and made in the USA. The guys who sell them are great! You have a good start and can improve things according to how much you are prepared to spend. So you did the right thing and didn't spend a whole lot to get started and off the ground.
Thanks for the information. Do you have a link where those reed switches are sold?
Wow! You're the first people to use that connect way I've seen. So do you use hauptwerk on your laptop?
wonder if with a little more work, and soldering, how much more difficult it would have been to remove the keys from the keyboard itself and extend the wiring to mount the keys under the pedals, Less mechanical wear over time.
I am probably looking at this method using cat5 cable for added durability and reduced resistance over regular wiring.
I like the creative repurpose of the keyboard for the pedal board. As for their maintenance, wouldn't fishing string be more resistant?
I think fishing string is an excellent idea! I will try that on the next pedal connection string that breaks. The basically twine strings do seem to wear out at the friction points; I had been thinking to try pulley wheels at the friction points to minimize this. Thanks for watching and commenting!
I must say that a midi pedal board is not that hard to come by or super expensive, but I admire the creativity
Thanks for watching, but I would love to know what you have seen.
www.musiciansfriend.com/keyboards-midi/nord-pedal-keys-27 - $2,799 for 27 pedals??
www.ebay.com/itm/284375133405?_trkparms=ispr%3D1&hash=item4236142cdd: - $1,100 for 20 pedals?
and yet I needed 32 pedals, and put it together for under $200...
What affordable pedalboards with midi have you seen?
@@ffoninamhcar24 Agree, I have been looking at these and they are not really all that cheap. The only other way to keep the cost down would be to build an arduino midi board using contact pads under each pedal.
A bit of work but sometimes have to use what you can get.
How can I buy a long midi base pedal control ?
If I understand your question right, you can buy fully functioning midi pedalboards for around $900-2000. That would be the easiest way to add pedals.
You could also repurpose a pedalboard from a pre-existing organ console (like I did in this video).
The third option, and I have seen many youtube videos where this has been done, is to cut the wood and make the pedals yourself. You would still need to wire switches or triggers into the pedalboard to have it send on/off signals to your midi controlled. (the third method is the most work..)
Thanks for watching, and best of luck in your midi adventure.
@@ffoninamhcar24 Thank you!
An unfortunate lack of design consideration or application to how instruments are proportioned or realization that one can in fact put contacts on a pedal board.
Iterative design isn't for everyone, and I wanted to find a simple alternative that didn't include soldering and gluing contacts with a separate midi controller. I looked at options for soldering contacts from a midi controller to a pedalboard, and there are lots of examples of that on CZcams. There was no soldering required in this project. (well except that the USB-B port on the 49 key usb-midi keyboard was broken and I had to solder a new one to the keyboard controller board.) Thanks for watching.