[BITList] Organ Pieces in Indian Songs..

[John Feltham]

From a correspondent...

 
Organ Pieces in Indian Songs…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHrIsnhV4H4#t=21 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHrIsnhV4H4#t=21>
 
Published on Jan 4, 2015

Pipe organs have a history that stretches back centuries B.C. The complexity of these instruments has kept them at the intersection of music and engineering. Advances in organ building have generally been driven by the application of new technologies.

The availability of electric power fueled a great leap forward in the art of organ building. Most immediately it replaced the mechanisms for providing the wind supply, often notoriously unreliable human blowers who operated hand pumps. English organ builder Robert Hope-Jones (1859-1914) radically rethought the design of the pipe organ including the application of electricity to connect the organ console to the pipes with an electro-pneumatic action.

Hope-Jones was a brilliant engineer but not a business man. Eventually he sold his business to The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, a highly successful importer and manufacturer of a wide range of musical instruments. Wurlitzer's entry into the organ business in the early 1910s coincided with rapid advances in the movie business. This was a time when the technology for reproducing sound for large audiences did not exist.

With the advent of sound movies, most theater organs fell silent. In the 1950s and 60s the advent of Hi-Fi records lead to a rebirth of theatre organs because of there ability to showcase the new advances in recording technology. During this period many theater organs were saved by being relocated to the homes of theater organ enthusiasts.

 In recent years, organs have taken another leap forward as modern advances in electronics and computers have allowed organs to be built without bulky and power hungry pipes. This has made it practical for individuals to have increasingly faithful replicas of pipe organs in their home. The Miditzer has taken advantage of modern computer technology to provide a replica of the Mighty Wurlitzer that almost anyone with a modern computer that runs Windows® can use to experience the wonder of a theater organ first hand.


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I was interested to see what a Miditzer sounded like.

To see a “Miditzer” running on a PC - click on ….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSndmsSxMmE <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSndmsSxMmE>

Or this one, which I think sounds much better!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcwSay-RGCI <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcwSay-RGCI>

See also…

Virtual theatre organ at…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_organ <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_organ>




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