My Pops had a prophet 2000 the mid 80's. The first home digital sampling synth. It had all these options and more to apply to either the basic hum or to any sample. It had reverb, attack, sustain, decay, multiple preset wave forms, speed (of the sample), pitch and tone, and probably 1/2 dozen more I can't recall, all in a keyboard size unit, not a full pipe organ size. The samples came or could be recorded on 3 1/2" floppies, and you could store a huge number of presets to modify them as you wished at the push of one button, not a complete retuning with multiple dials. I had fun remixing James Brown and Prince, but never learned to play well.
Amazing the advancements they made in just 15 years.

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Pipe organs rule especially from their basses.

What's the name of the pipe organ music? And done!

Awesome soundtrack! Love the pipe organ sound. Needs a MUSIC tag.

You really do. Iain M. Banks was an amazing writer.

Excession is probably my favourite, along with Look To Windward and Use Of Weapons.

His non-sci-fi work is fantastic too, especially The Crow Road (any book that opens with the sentence "It was the day my grandmother exploded" is instantly brilliant IMO).

He was also a wonderful speaker. Listen to this (skip to 29:32 if you haven't read Use Of Weapons, it spoils the whole plot) http://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2012/oct/12/iain-banks-book-club-podcast?fb_ref=Default. I love his analogy of writing fiction is like playing a piano and writing SF is like a massive pipe organ.

We lost a "REAL" humanitarian in Robin Williams. Where I come from I
come from the days of Solid Gold with Marilyn McKoo Waylan Flowers
and Madam and Dione Warwick Marilyn I miss Fifth Dimension but we have another spark of talent You. Marilyn you would love your One Less Bell to Answer and can you imagine Aquarius/Let The Sun Shine In on a theater pipe organ. I do these at our Ohio Theater on our Mighty Morton. It has an India Indian Drum on it and sometimes I'll put the mike over my hand and play the Aquarius drum part with my hand on the side of the bench. Love Ya.

He'd be a composer if it was made in software prior to performance. Not a very good composer but a composer nonetheless. I'll give way and admit that since it is music then he is some form of musician. Not a skilled one but still a musician.

Composers are not performance musicians. They are still "musicians" in the sense that they manipulate music, but they do it vicariously. Most composers play one or two instruments but the instruments are not required to compose the music - it goes straight from head to paper.

Is this music? Yes and no. It's nice enough, but it's several orders of magnitude away from say Debussy or Chopin or Bach.

Your organ analogy is flawed (interestingly enough I lived above a full pipe organ for two years - true story). Firstly most modern organs have two keyboards and one pedal board with more keys in total than a piano. They also have a large range of stops that control more notes. Secondly each key activates one note - the same as a piano. It just has no attenuation. So the exact same rules apply except loudness is controlled by a different method.

If he had a 10x10 keypad with each pad assigned exactly one note a semitone apart from the next pad and he played a piece on it then it would be showing a similar level of skill.

Man, that looks like a pipe organ! I thought he would make beautiful music.

Halfway through this I start thinking, damn, the woodgears.ca guy would love to see this! Then at the end I realize it IS him. This guy is freakin amazing and makes all kinds of awesome stuff out of wood. He made a freakin pipe organ, he makes gears out of wood, all kinds of crazy stuff. His site is a treasure.

Wow. Looks pretty easy to make, except for timing the pipe organ with the fly swatter.

Pipe organs are one of my favorite instruments. I don't know how anyone can get so skilled at something with several keyboards, a pedalboard, and stops for each one.

From Wikepedia:

The origins of the pipe organ can be traced back to the hydraulis in Ancient Greece in the third century BC, in which the wind supply was created with water pressure. By the sixth or seventh century AD, bellows were used to supply organs with wind. Beginning in the twelfth century, the organ began to evolve into a complex instrument capable of producing different timbres. By the seventeenth century, most of the sounds available on the modern classical organ had been developed. From that time, the pipe organ was the most complex man-made device; it retained this distinction until it was displaced by the telephone exchange in the late nineteenth century.

This is very cool, though I wonder at its range of sounds.

I'm in the American Theatre Organ Society. I think I'm the youngest of the Indiana members by about 50 years. No exaggeration. Anything that could get the word out to the younger generation about pipe organs or relative instruments is awesome.

There's something to be said about the power one feels behind the many manuals of a pipe organ. Such a huge, huge sound.

Yes this wouldn't be my favourite interpretation but it's interesting to hear someone give it a go. I agree the piece on a pipe organ is amazing.

I don't want to sound to negative because I was a percussionist, but this sounds better to me on a large pipe organ. I am trained to think that way because of the original Rollerball movie with James Caan. Sorry, Just my opinion. The musicians are talented however.