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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2007 15:29:55 GMT -5
As annoying as his lengthy and often offtopic posts are on here, I owe a major thanks to Pierce Phillips. I had several boxes of fans in VA that, due to circumstances beyond my control, were to be discarded. Pierce went and picked them up and now has these fans in his possession:  If you are interested in any of these fans you can contact him. They are the majority of fans shown on wood floors in ToViewFans 11-14. |
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Post by organist89 on May 31, 2007 20:51:56 GMT -5
You're welcome...
So yeah, Brian Hicks contacted me at about 9:30 PM, I got in my Jeep and drove 3 hours over steep, foggy, dark mountain roads to Lynchburg, took every one of those boxes down from the 2nd-floor apartment, did some rewiring of light switches, and drove 3 hours back.
Interesting...
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Post by organist89 on May 31, 2007 22:37:06 GMT -5
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Post by Ben C. on Jun 1, 2007 13:27:03 GMT -5
Hmmm, a lot of fans have occupied that location...  Dan, where did you store the fans, what happened? Why does Brian have them then? |
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Post by organist89 on Jun 1, 2007 15:50:11 GMT -5
Dan, where did you store the fans? I'm not Dan, but I'm still going to answer that. Oh, hang on, wait Ben, I have a present for you!  The fans were/are stored in those boxes. In Dan's apartment in Lynchburg, VA. What part of this is confusing you?  Why does Brian have them then? He doesn't. I didn't word my sentence too well. Brian was supposed to drive up to the apartment from NC (where he lives) and get the fans, but he wasn't able to for reasons beyond his control. So he called me, and I called Dan, and we got it all arranged that I would drive down to Lynchburg from Winchester and get the fans. Besides, even if Brian had gone, he was reputedly going to try to fit all these boxes in his Ford Taurus--and that makes me laugh very very hard. I have a full-size Jeep Cherokee--these boxes LITERALLY go from floor to ceiling, from the back of the headrests to the back glass. And yeah, the back seat is taken out, so it's one nice big cargo area. There is not one iota of space left. After I got done jamming spare downrods and stuff in place, I had to actually pile up the passenger's seat too with yet another one of those banana boxes. There are 22 of those banana boxes (and they're larger than they look in the picture--each of those boxes holds two fans), not to mention the five or six other miscellaneous boxes, not to mention the huge--and heavy--box filled with miscellaneous blades. |
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Post by Ben C. on Jun 2, 2007 5:52:08 GMT -5
Well, if you put it that way, true. When I was typing that, I thought that you might correct me on that… An organ as 2 rows of keys, and then the foot pedals, do they each play the notes at a different pitch? The reason I want a Mac more than Windows is because it's less cluttered and more simple. It also includes the iLife suite, for me to make movies and stuff. It's better than Windows Movie Maker. I don't know about the newer ones, but the one I used sucked... |
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Post by organist89 on Jun 2, 2007 22:55:19 GMT -5
An organ [h]as 2 rows of keys, and then the foot pedals, do they each play the notes at a different pitch? (A) Not all organs have two manuals (keyboards)--some have one, many have two or three, larger ones have four or five; seven is the world's largest (in Atlantic City, NJ -- www.acchos.org/html/main_organ.html) (B) Not all organs have foot pedals--it depends on the organ's age, style, and country of origin. But yes, almost all do, and all the ones currently made do.
Okay, so, now that I'm done with my daily Ben-bashing (sorry, I was visiting Brian Hicks in NC yesterday, so I need to make up for a missed day), I encourage you to watch my YouTube video of me explaining how an organ works: keys, pedals, and all.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTa23_kUczg
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5ddjr1K3lM
(it's in two parts).
But the short answer to your question is: yes, and no.
Here's the long answer:
All the keys--both those used by the hands and those used by the feet--are used to make different notes. If the organ was a one-note-at-a-time instrument, like a trumpet, there'd be no point in having all the keys and pedals.
That being said, an organ is different from every other instrument in that no key is assigned to any particular pitch--or note, for that matter.
When you play a piano, or any other instrument for that matter, it's tuned such that A' (which is the first A above middle C) rings at 440 Hz. That A key on the piano will always ring that particular A note, no matter what.
In other words, each key is permanently assigned to a specific pitch, and A above middle C rings 440 Hz. This system, which applies to everything other than the organ, is called "unison pitch".
The organ isn't the same way.
On an organ, you have what are called "stops" (from whence comes the saying "pulling out all the stops"). Each stop controls a different set of pipes; each set of pipes has a separate pipe for every note. So, for example, let's say that one stop is the "trumpet" stop. Since there are 61 notes on the keyboard, there are 61 trumpet pipes (each one a little shorter than the one before it). So when you press the C key, you hear a trumpet playing the note C. You can press as many keys as you want, and have as many trumpets going at once as you want. It's awesome. And a lot cheaper than hiring 61 trumpeters.
Each organ has several stops--anywhere from 5 or 6 to over a hundred. Common stops include "trumpet", "flute", "oboe", "violin", "bassoon", etc. etc. etc. You can pull on different stops at the same time and create beautiful sounds.
However, it gets more complex...
Every organ has stops tuned to the "unison pitch" I mentioned before. With a unison-pitch stop, the lowest note (longest pipe) is 8 feet long. So, on the organ, all unison pitch stops say 8' on them.
But organs also have stops at other pitches. Let's say you're playing a piano. If you want to move everything one octave higher, you have to shift yourself to the right, and play higher up on the keyboard. Now, let's say you want to hear everything doubled--you want to hear it as written, but simultaneously played one octave higher. You'd need to grow two more hands (or hire a 2nd pianist). But an organ doesn't work the same way. On an organ, they just make more sets of pipes--pipes which play an octave or two higher, or an octave or two lower, than unison pitch--and you can turn them all on at the same time, so that you play one thing on the keyboard but hear several different octaves at once. This is why organs are so large and expensive--there has to be a separate pipe for every single note at every single pitch.
You can turn on whatever stops you want on whatever keyboard you want. And you can make one keyboard play the other, so that you can play all the stops on one keyboard--watch this vid; 7 seconds in, you'll see the "phantom organist" (the top keyboard looks like it's playing itself); I think you'll get what I'm talking about: www.youtube.com/watch?v=idhHq1mn1XA
The pedals are usually used to play the bass notes. But you could turn on a unison-pitch stop on the manuals and an octave-higher ("super octave") stop on the pedals, and the pedals would play higher-pitched notes than the manuals.
It's an odd instrument...
If you have any more questions after watching those, feel free to ask, and I promise to be nice ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2007 15:19:23 GMT -5
That Victorian is gorgeous. It originally had cane blades and VERY ornate light shades.
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Post by organist89 on Jun 6, 2007 15:48:36 GMT -5
That Victorian is gorgeous. It originally had cane blades and VERY ornate light shades. Do you, by any chance, know is the original light shades are in the haul I have here? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2007 16:10:29 GMT -5
No, I gave them to a friend that collects light shades when I first received the fan.
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Post by organist89 on Jun 10, 2007 14:47:59 GMT -5
That Victorian is gorgeous. It originally had cane blades and VERY ornate light shades. No, I gave them to a friend that collects light shades when I first received the fan. Yeah, they're EXPENSIVE. I just bought a new set of the original glass (matching 4 arms and center globe). It ran me $151.65, not including shipping. Yikes! But hey, I'll never own a nicer fan, and it's my "display piece", so it should look nice, you know? Next is replacing the SQ system... |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2007 19:57:17 GMT -5
I have several sets of Casablanca shades, call me.
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Post by organist89 on Jun 11, 2007 4:00:39 GMT -5
I have several sets of Casablanca shades, call me. Got your phone message too. Sorry, too late, I placed my order online last night. Oh well, I'm sure there are other glass-needing Casablancas in my future. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2007 10:30:32 GMT -5
I would try to cancel the order.
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