301K views · May 23, 2022 · 15:51 · 3 HN recommenders · 4 mentions · discussed 2022–2023
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.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN recommends the series as great fun, following a talented and enthusiastic amateur rebuilding a pipe organ.
“this series where a pipe organ is gradually rebuilt by an extremely talented and enthusiastic amateur is great fun!”HN comment, 2023
“this series where a pipe organ is gradually rebuilt by an extremely talented and enthusiastic amateur is great fun!”
Series where an enthusiastic amateur rebuilds a pipe organ.
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
“I'm gonna plug the Youtube channel ‘Look Mum No Computer’”
Removal of a house-built pipe organ and its reinstallation.
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
“LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER has a great set of video about removing an organ from a home”
Series on removing a church organ and rebuilding it with MIDI
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
“He cleaned it up and rewired it to interface via midi as well as the console.”
Series on buying, cleaning and rewiring a church organ with MIDI
"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
