+Marcus Stahl I rather thought you would say that, though I was expecting B flat. But why B flat in particular? Why not F sharp, for example, to allow the player to use G major?
+Offshoreorganbuilder , well in fact B flat, sorry. The musician has been the advisor and on the sculpture you see 7 pipes, so we concluded them to be 2 rows of 7, i.e. 14. He has chosen the Bflat reckoning, it would be the most plausible sharp to be used.
+Marcus Stahl I asked, because (in my work restoring old organs) I sometimes come across a set of pipes in which the note names marked are just what you would expect, excepting that there is no 'B.' Instead of B the pipes will be marked with the musical notation for 'natural,' (which I can't type on a computer keyboard.) Now, if only one note is marked 'natural,' it suggests to me that this is the only note in which there would be a choice - B natural or B flat. This makes me wonder if the practice dates from a time at which organs were made with only one raised key - B flat. If so, this must I suppose, be a remarkable example of a practice passed down from one pipe-maker to his apprentice for several hundred years, unless there is another explanation. (The A sharp pipes in the organs I mention are marked 'A' with the musical notation for 'sharp.' by the way.) I wonder why your musician/advisor chose B flat, rather than another raised note? I find your videos very interesting. Keep them coming!
Offshoreorganbuilder My answer is of course two years late, but the reason is that the b flat was actually in a sense part of the same diatonic scale as b natural. Or according to the medieval theory, the diatonic scale was rather divided into three overlapping hexachords, "natural" hexachord being c d e f g a, "soft" hexachord being f g a b-flat c d, and "hard" hexachord being g a b c d e. As a remnant of this, in germany the two b's still have different letters, "h" being used in place of b natural and "b" in place of b flat.
I would like to buy a medieval Organetto. I live in France, near Toulouse. Do you know ani organetti constructor near Toulouse. Could you give me such an information ? Thanks very much. I wish to read you very soon. Have a nice day.
Truly wonderful. In the best meditative and sonically superb space in the world.
If I ever can afford one of these beautiful instruments, I'll buy it from you. Thank you so much for sharing this.
So ein nettes Instrument; sozusagen die "Oma zu der Königin der Musikinstrumente". Der Klang ist sehr schön, fast meditativ!
Just a beautiful instrument & well played! Thank you very much for posting this! Will share this on FaceBook.
Sehr cool
Wonderful sound .
Such a wonderful instrument and wonderful playing. Am wondering if they can be played outside, like while walking along in some sort of procession.
martinulm12, of course that could be done!
He says something sounds terrible and I'm sitting going, I love it!
The tuning is a bit odd... but the wind pressure variation is responsible for part of that
MAGNIFICENT
wonderful
Sublime!!!!! Does anybody know where can I buy one of these marvellous Organettos?
folkfriends.com has both complete and build-yourself-sets of these
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Very fine-sounding.
Which is the one raised note, and why only that one?
+Offshoreorganbuilder , it is diatonic and the raised key is the a-sharp.
+Marcus Stahl I rather thought you would say that, though I was expecting B flat.
But why B flat in particular? Why not F sharp, for example, to allow the player to use G major?
+Offshoreorganbuilder , well in fact B flat, sorry. The musician has been the advisor and on the sculpture you see 7 pipes, so we concluded them to be 2 rows of 7, i.e. 14. He has chosen the Bflat reckoning, it would be the most plausible sharp to be used.
+Marcus Stahl
I asked, because (in my work restoring old organs) I sometimes come across a set of pipes in which the note names marked are just what you would expect, excepting that there is no 'B.' Instead of B the pipes will be marked with the musical notation for 'natural,' (which I can't type on a computer keyboard.)
Now, if only one note is marked 'natural,' it suggests to me that this is the only note in which there would be a choice - B natural or B flat. This makes me wonder if the practice dates from a time at which organs were made with only one raised key - B flat. If so, this must I suppose, be a remarkable example of a practice passed down from one pipe-maker to his apprentice for several hundred years, unless there is another explanation.
(The A sharp pipes in the organs I mention are marked 'A' with the musical notation for 'sharp.' by the way.)
I wonder why your musician/advisor chose B flat, rather than another raised note?
I find your videos very interesting. Keep them coming!
Offshoreorganbuilder My answer is of course two years late, but the reason is that the b flat was actually in a sense part of the same diatonic scale as b natural. Or according to the medieval theory, the diatonic scale was rather divided into three overlapping hexachords, "natural" hexachord being c d e f g a, "soft" hexachord being f g a b-flat c d, and "hard" hexachord being g a b c d e. As a remnant of this, in germany the two b's still have different letters, "h" being used in place of b natural and "b" in place of b flat.
I would like to buy a medieval Organetto. I live in France, near Toulouse. Do you know ani organetti constructor near Toulouse. Could you give me such an information ? Thanks very much. I wish to read you very soon. Have a nice day.
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