I BOUGHT A WHOLE CHURCH ORGAN - Part 1 The Organs Removal
LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER3 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2022–2023
documentary · general · evergreen · 2022–2023 on HN
Part one of Look Mum No Computer's series on buying a whole church pipe organ, covering how it was removed from its home. The series goes on to restoring it and rewiring it for MIDI.
HN recommends the series as great fun, following a talented and enthusiastic amateur rebuilding a pipe organ.
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4 comments from Hacker News
If you want to learn more about pipe organs from a completely different viewpoint, this series where a pipe organ is gradually rebuilt by an extremely talented and enthusiastic amateur is great fun! LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER - I BOUGHT A WHOLE CHURCH ORGAN - Part 1: The Organ Removal ▶ this video
LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER has a great set of video about removing an organ from a home, and setting it up/modifying it in his place. I highly recommend. ▶ this video
Since the pipe organ will be inevitably mentioned in the comments, I'm gonna plug the Youtube channel ‘Look Mum No Computer’, whose gear-crazy author in now apparently in the final stages of installing and patching up an organ in his seemingly interminable basement, after moving it from someone else's house: link Said organ was built by its late owner not just in the house, but pretty much into the walls of the house, and as a result the thing had to be ripped out of there rather grotesquely, and then rewired again at the new place: ▶ this video
"Look mum no computer" on Youtube is wrapping up a series[0] where he bought an old church organ and rebuilt it. He cleaned it up and rewired it to interface via midi as well as the console. [0] ▶ this video