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I BOUGHT A WHOLE CHURCH ORGAN - Part 1 The Organs Removal

LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER
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3 HN users recommended this documentary3 months2022–2023 score 3.5
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

HN recommends the series as great fun, following a talented and enthusiastic amateur rebuilding a pipe organ.

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.

“this series where a pipe organ is gradually rebuilt by an extremely talented and enthusiastic amateur is great fun!” (HN, 2023)

1 strong recommendations · 2 recommendations · 1 citations · Documentaries

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@fredley Jan 2023 Strongly recommends
on HN thread The Organ as a Wind Instrument
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]
Series where an enthusiastic amateur rebuilds a pipe organ.
@aasasd Oct 2022 Recommends
on HN thread Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into print
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]
Removal of a house-built pipe organ and its reinstallation.
@throwawayai2 Jun 2023 Recommends
on HN thread Free Organ
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]
Series on removing a church organ and rebuilding it with MIDI

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@Noxwizard Jul 2023 Cites it
on HN thread OpenPipes Revolutionizes the DIY Pipe Organs
"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]
Series on buying, cleaning and rewiring a church organ with MIDI

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