Pipe Organs!! The Magical music of Thousands of Whistles!!

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If you have never sat down and just listened to pipe organs being played you might never realize that what you are listening to is the result of air being pumped through a massive system of channels and out through hundreds and even 10's of thousands of pipes!

There are some pipes just a couple of inches high and some that are 64 feet high (19.5 meters), some round, some square, some wood, some metal. Some you can put in your pocket and others are a foot across or more.

There is a richness and power in that sound. The music can carry you away in an air or sonata and even raise your heartbeat with a mighty fugue or make you so excited to hear the Trumpet en Chamade "raise the roof" in a resounding chorus!
Like this one from the Hauptwerk organ from Notre Dame de Metz Mutin/Cavaillé-Coll:

Tuba Tune in D Major (C.S. Lang) http://www.contrebombarde.com/concerthall/music/340
which also includes a Youtube video so you can see what kind of organ setup the player has.

Or this hauntingly beautiful piece from J.S. Bach:
"Air" aus der Orchestersuite Nr. 3 in D-Dur BWV 1068

http://www.contrebombarde.com/concerthall/music/24737

played by a an actual church organist in the Netherlands on his own Hauptwerk organ with samples from 2012 Metzler pipe organ in Poblet Abbey, Spain. I mean, really, from whistles? So awesome!!

Just listening to pipe organ music has a way of calming my nerves and focusing my mind. So many rich phrases from Johann Sebastian Bach rippled across several hundred or thousand whistles, each imitating or creating an instrumental voice like no other on earth.

I am no music expert. I am no organist either. I describe myself as an "organ hobbyist". I like to listen, I like to play.
I did build my own "console" and midified some old organ pedals so I could play whenever I wanted.

There are Many amateur and professional organists and organ hobbyists playing Hauptwerk organ samples at home with aid of their computers. A large number of them record their playing and post the files on a website called Contrebombarde Music Hall. This site is dedicated to only pieces recorded on Hauptwerk software https://www.hauptwerk.com/ and is FREE software. You can license it if you wish to install more organs.

The Contrebombarde Music Hall http://www.contrebombarde.com/concerthall/ is a great place to listen to playlists you make yourself or that other site users made and you can access. This site is completely FREE OF CHARGE!!
You can access it from any Internet connected browser.
For example, this rendition of "the Great" Fantasia and Fugue in G (J.S. Bach BWV 542) played on Hauptwerk's organ software made from samples of the 2012 Metzler organ in Poblet Abbey, Spain:

http://www.contrebombarde.com/concerthall/music/28589 All Free! All the time!

I would love to hear from you about your experiences with pipe organs as listeners, players, builders and composers.
I hope to write some more on this topic soon.

About me:
I like to play the "pipe organ" at home using 2 midi keyboards and a midi enabled set of pedals from an old Baldwin church organ. You can find some pipe organ music and Hauptwerk 4.1 setups and recordings here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrFh_pGaZJuKlz0avchj5Fw

There are several Hauptwerk organs featured on my channel and plenty of links to other people who enjoy playing the organ. Some of them have great skill and passion.

This you can do with just the FREE version of Hauptwek 4.x and some freely available reverb sample files:

A picture of what you might see in Reaper by Cockos for making St. Anne's sound so good:

My former setup which is now disassembled and waiting for a new console shell:

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