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That is beautiful
at least 5 pipes are missing....
Wow, most of the organ is still there!
*gasp* did u touch it?
no Roxanne, he didn't touch my organ
Cue the evil organ music..
Just imagine the sound reverberating off of the stone walls. It must have been spine-tingling.
Mr. Motts, You really should have provided organ music to go with this one.
You don't find organs around like that anymore.
Keep in mind the real pipes are hidden over the wind chest. They are made of soft lead,are of varying lengths,and are plain and drab to look at.
For the largest,deepest sounds tall wooden troughs called "Bombards' were used.(of varying lengths)These "bass" pipes often had wooden plates on the side of the speaker hole for direction,resonance,and baffling.They're back there too.
Sometimes little percussive bells struck with little hammers were used to get that chime effect,although you can get that effect with a short blast of air on the smaller pipes
My brother is a pipe organist.
sorry guys, but this is a just a decorative canopy for the reed organ on the following page. The people who built these organs also put these elaborate canopy tops on them, and fake organ pipes were extremely popular
wow thats in pretty good shape!
I'm thinkin' the Bach tocata & fugue in D minor!

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