I BOUGHT A WHOLE CHURCH ORGAN - Part 1 The Organs Removal
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN recommends the series as great fun, following a talented and enthusiastic amateur rebuilding a pipe organ.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2022 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec fredley · 2023-01 · on “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]
Recommends aasasd · 2022-10 · on “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]
Recommends throwawayai2 · 2023-06 · on “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]
Cites Noxwizard · 2023-07 · on “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]