My daughter, Lilly, chose to make a pipe organ for her Year 8 project here in Sydney Australia. She worked for about 3 months to get it right and it turned out great!
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@virginiaorganbuilder4 жыл бұрын
I have been a pipe organ builder in America for 32 years. Great job Lilly!!!
@minka8664 жыл бұрын
I would like see your works 👍
@robertsutter20923 жыл бұрын
@@minka866 pppppo pop pool p
@James-en1ob3 жыл бұрын
How much does one cost???. I want to build a small one for our local church
@finneganblack20383 жыл бұрын
wow i read that wrong thought you were a pipe organ
@virginiaorganbuilder3 жыл бұрын
@@James-en1ob Hmmm...Even a small pipe organ will easily cost $200,000. That's for a new organ. If you want to try, I encourage you!
@frogandspanner3 жыл бұрын
What a wonderful choice for a project. Not only are practical skills required, but there are many Physics and Music theory learning opportunities. I note that this work was completed over 3 years ago, so now expect a 32ft pipe sticking out of your roof in place of a chimney.
@classicaldeb3 жыл бұрын
Ha! Yes.
@johniorio7951 Жыл бұрын
Well, you could probably use the main stack, not sure what sounds cast iron would make.
@cetterus5 ай бұрын
fun fact- where I come from organ builders were paid bonus in wine: as much as it fits in the largest pipe. This is what resulted in just one pipe being sometimes 128'.
@frogandspanner5 ай бұрын
@@cetterus Did they get double quantities for a _stopped_ diapason?
@cetterus5 ай бұрын
@@frogandspanner might check on that...practice makes perfect
@kegginstructure11 ай бұрын
A bit of history. Those wide keys are actually historically accurate. The first organs actually deserving of the name had old-style mechanical spring-and-counterweight actions that required extra pressure to play the notes. The first organists for that type of instrument were called "organ pounders" because they had to pound on the stiff-action keys.
@Jasper_44445 ай бұрын
Also, they played with their fists.
@franciscoobrequedote9115 жыл бұрын
Amazing how a young girl can get so interested in pipe organs in times when everything is digital! Congrats and keep the enthusiasm!
@person89873 жыл бұрын
amazing how anyone could get interested in pipe organs when everything is digital
@TheCinderDude3 жыл бұрын
@@person8987 amazing how anyone could get interested in pipe organs
@TheCinderDude3 жыл бұрын
For the record, i am also interested in pipe organs
@m_uz12443 жыл бұрын
@@person8987 Well not really. Although the process of making digital sound speakers is interesting in its own right, it's fairly bland as a topic compared to how the pipe organ and other wind instruments manipulate wind and sound and can be used as entire musical instruments.
@person89873 жыл бұрын
@@m_uz1244 yea but i meant that the newer generation doesnt find interest in classical music and only find interest in digital music stuff
@brianbaird45732 жыл бұрын
You really put a lot of work in that organ. For a young girl, that's priceless. Not afraid of shop work and thinking for herself. I know how time-consuming organ building is. I built my own pipe organ years ago. Took about a year and that was with pipes salvaged from an old church organ. I built a small one with 2 ranks of pipes- 8ft Rohrflute 61 pipes and 4ft Principle 72 pipes which gave me the option to use the Principles in 2ft pitch. Had a beautiful tone. The pipes were originally used to support the singing of a 150 seat church, so they were LOUD in my house.
@composer16633 жыл бұрын
My compliments! I just saw this video. I love how you went about designing the organ without getting hung up with the fine points of organ-building theory. If you ever want to pursue organ-building in a rigorous manner you absolutely must get the books: The Art of Organ Building by George Ashdown Audsley (Volumes I and II). Originally published in 1905 by Dover (New York), it has since been reprinted and published by Dover. The book is still the definitive work on organ-building, and requires no prior knowlege to understand. Audsley was an architect when he set about building a small organ. We had three daughters, and all studied music. However, none of them share my passion for BUILDING things, such as organs, and I was delighted to see that YOU did it.
@btruj25073 жыл бұрын
First off:mind blown! Second: I so love that she (with help from an amazing dad) dove into such a challenging project with enthusiasm, a prerequisite for a career as an engineer, a musician or both, and third: that she did all that wearing girly clothes instead of overalls or shop jumpsuit LOL!!! WELL DONE young lady and your dad must be super proud of you! He obviously raised you to believe there is nothing you cannot do! You are a success now and in the future, no doubt.
@melkiorwiseman52343 жыл бұрын
I hope she got an A+ for that. I think she deserved it for all that work. It turned out well too.
@jesnemo26774 жыл бұрын
this is incredible work and the detractors I think are completely missing the point of the craft involved in this endeavor, picking at adjustable details without considering the monumental effort that went involved to getting it to this AMAZING point. It's sad enough to go through life nitpicking in general but choosing to do it to someone who has obviously put in so much effort in a successful project just shows how out of touch they are. Instead of being negative on the internet, why don't you spend that time doing something constructive yourself and sharing it with the world? GREAT JOB! never let anyone hold you back!!!!! :)
@davidli77523 жыл бұрын
Great, but the lengths of the pipes need to be exponential rather than linear. This is why the higher notes tend to sound flat. I would suggest tweaking the length of every pipe using a tuner.
@BenAtTheTube3 жыл бұрын
"real" organ pipes have a tuning mechanism. Sometimes a tube that slides in/over the main pipe to change its length.
@bobjacobson8583 жыл бұрын
Excellent point.
@happypanda65183 жыл бұрын
She's building a musical instrument while I mess up IKEA furniture. Great job!
@CorbyCave3 жыл бұрын
My family have been working with pipe organs for about a hundred years, so I just have to say this is AWESOME!!!
@guscox96514 жыл бұрын
when the church won't let you practice for more than an hour at a time... so you build an organ yourself
@courag13 жыл бұрын
Gus Cox The church does not have an idea what makes a musician. If you love the instrument, you just love to play music.
@Ardjano2343 жыл бұрын
I kinda like the joke, but you can just buy a home organ.
@billz40713 жыл бұрын
@@Ardjano234 There are no home organ builders left in business today. Lowrey, who was #1 in the business, closed about 2 years ago. There are many keyboards around, but none of them play or sound like a real organ with 2 keyboards and pedals.
@f4tboy993 жыл бұрын
Or you buy an used Hammond organ! 😉
@BenAtTheTube3 жыл бұрын
@@billz4071 Allen and Rodgers companies are still building electronic organs of varying sizes. Although buying one of these is not the same as a project making a pipe organ from plastic plumbing! I have an old 4 manual console, no pipes, would love to someday build a Miditzer computer and 4 extended ranks of pipes for it. Diapason, flute, trumpet, oboe - used ranks would be excellent! 16-ft diapason and flute will fit in a reasonable space if the low octave is stopped pipes, 8 ft actual length plus the foot. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpSpdYGIa5KJjNU
@AntonioVillamar3 жыл бұрын
Paul.. Here from Canada, I can see your dedication and love for Lilly. She is lucky to have such a dedicated father! A beautiful example of determination, persistency, patience and love. Congrats!
@Michael-xv4zs3 жыл бұрын
That is terrific! I'm a classical organist in California and I am so very impressed. Congratulations!
@jameslind19644 жыл бұрын
48 year old guitar player here - this has inspired me to build something like this. Really loved how you built the valves yourself.
@DewayneGore3 жыл бұрын
That must be the coolest project I have ever seen a kid create. Congratulations to her!
@EVISEH3 жыл бұрын
Congratulations Lilly and my highest praise to you. Building a working Organ from scratch is a daunting task for anyone. That you chose to do so and that you succeeded in making such, deserves nothing less than the highest accolades.
@jroar1233 жыл бұрын
You are a great dad to teach in such a practical way.
@nickyork89013 жыл бұрын
Loved this video. Having two musical daughters (now grown up) who liked building things, this took me back a bit...fantastic work by Lilly, and nice work on the recording of it too.
@thomasciul89323 жыл бұрын
I'm a professional harpsichord and piano builder. I've made 3 little portative hand pumped organs. They are almost as much work as a so how harpsichord! Wow what a girl! Keep up the good work!
@WatchingPup3 жыл бұрын
I don't know anything about pipe organs, music theory, or building. Great job both of you
@Herfinnur4 жыл бұрын
A lot of impressive ingenuity went into this!
@benalder67813 жыл бұрын
I am very astonishing what she could do. She should become an organ builder. Wow. Love it.
@BobBlarneystone3 жыл бұрын
Good stuff! I had a friend in college who built pipe organs in his tiny dorm room in Philadelphia. Once I went with him on a scavenging mission to get a keyboard across town. We got the keyboard and we carried it on to the streetcars and then on the subway too. Back then, the transit workers and police weren't quite so uptight about such strange things.
@davidschmidt60133 жыл бұрын
I like the product, but I'm FAR more happy at the relationship the two of you have. I hope my daughter and I can do such projects in future. Great job, the both of you!! Thanks for making and sharing the video!
@loamdelatam7702 жыл бұрын
The best part is that she uses international sistem.
@billz40713 жыл бұрын
Very interesting and exciting to see this being built. The mind is a great thing when it is used productively. This was not a small undertaking either. I service and tune pipe organs, as well as electronic ones, so that makes this one even more exciting to me. One thing you could add to this would be a small tin or plastic sleeve around the end of each tube/pipe and use it for tuning each pipe. You may have to trim each one shorter, but it would be interesting for you to also see how to refine your great work a little more. GREAT JOB, Lilly!!!
@PurplePink-Roblox3 жыл бұрын
Super awesome! I had some PVC pipes in lengths 1, 2 and 4, blew into them and showed my 8 year-old octaves... but this project goes waaaaaayyyyyyy beyond! I'm gonna show this vid to him.
@ThisIsNotAhnJieRen4 жыл бұрын
Damn! As an organ enthusiast, I find this video very satisfying.
@NoName-zn1sb3 жыл бұрын
The keyboard is remarkably similar to the one I made for my "hammond" organ science project in hice kool. Abrasive wheel ground the tone wheels from steel discs, wound pick-up coils around magnets. Good job, you!
@danw19553 жыл бұрын
Nice job Lilly!! Now that you know the basics, you should go help the crew at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ in the U.S. restoring the world's largest pipe organ, the mighty Midmer-Losh Opus 5550! Now *THAT'S* a project!😁👍🎵🎶🎵
@raylew99373 жыл бұрын
1-25-2021 what an accomplishment for an 8th grader to learn about musicology and the physics of music-making. Am sure the creators and instructors will be proud of this accomplishment. I just noted this program for the Science and Music classes at the Cathedral School for Boys in San Francisco, CA USA.
@PleasantP5 жыл бұрын
This is amazing! It’s the perfect combination of engineering and music. love it
@stupidgenius1074 жыл бұрын
Where were girls like this when I was her age?!? All the girls I knew I'm sure had never held a saw in their life, let alone calculated the approximate lengths of pipe required to make a diatonic scale! Actually, that goes for the guys too... Anyway, I'm glad being a nerd is cool now 😎 Great job!
@the_angler_23 жыл бұрын
I think that she's got a very good father. She must be proud of him.
@TheGentleUncle3 жыл бұрын
To be fair, those lengths were far from accurate. But that's fine for her age nevertheless.
@maxalaintwo35783 жыл бұрын
@@TheGentleUncle I thought to myself, "I don't think adding 50 cms or so is mathematically corre-...... Yknow what I can't armchair judge I'm not building an organ here."
@stupidgenius1073 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I think the problem was that by adding a constant value to each one, she ended up with a linear progression, while music notes follow a logarithmic progression (an octave up or down being double or half the frequency, respectively) so each increment should have been proportional to the one before. But then she played it and I thought "mmmmkay that sounds pretty good" 😅
@gemavaliente76753 жыл бұрын
Unnecessary sexism
@mahonrymauigoa80493 жыл бұрын
How talented! I love to see people make instruments from scratch!
@ullinator13882 жыл бұрын
Hey Paul, you can be proud of your daughter! Best greetings from Bachland (Deutschland)!
@imfacebookpaul5 ай бұрын
Very proud! Thank you
@josefigueroamartinez16753 жыл бұрын
Impressed by the hard work and final result. It shows a lot of creativity and joy. Bravo girl!
@pascalcoole27253 жыл бұрын
It's so great to see that thse days stil there are younsters that dive in to stuff the hard way and create themselve a skillset that the smartphone generation hardly possesses.
@davekirby50523 жыл бұрын
Great job Lily. A lot of original thinking went into this project, and it looks as though you had fun. Dave
Great job Lily! Just to mention, for the length of the different pipes, you show and talk about the length in cm (centimeter), and that's what your table shows as well. It should be instead mm (milimeter). Imagine, a pipe length of 410 cm would mean a pipe of 4.1 m (meter), as one meter is equal to 100 cm (centimeter) or 1 m (one meter). "Centi" means 100 and comes from the Latin language.
@skateofmind63 жыл бұрын
This is an incredible feat and it’s so happy to see you two do it together. You’re an awesome parent for providing the resources and time. Congratulations, how cool!
@richardkallio38682 жыл бұрын
This is mind-blowingly awesome, Lilly! From a professional organist with a diploma in the craft. I am very impressed by your efforts!
@beaufighter2452 жыл бұрын
Absolutely brilliant! Good to see practical skills making something from scratch.
@theyoungbarista67152 жыл бұрын
Great work glad to see more young people like me interested in pipe organs!
@Targoon_Music3 жыл бұрын
im happy to see that there are girls who are really enthusiastic about building stuff and working with tools
@larryhagemann55483 жыл бұрын
This is inspirational on many levels. Well done, Lilly. You are to be commended for your enthusiasm and dedication.
@matthewnabil3 жыл бұрын
That was a year 8 project? Girl is literally soaring!
@marvinmartian87463 жыл бұрын
Great job Lilly! You have a lot of tenacity.
@brianmckay1256 Жыл бұрын
Totally, utterly, Charming!!
@WoodymC3 жыл бұрын
Organist here -- I'm pretty impressed by your work and your interest for the subject! I wish we would have done something like this in school here in Germany... Congrats and Hats off! for the outcome of this cool project.
@SaxonSuccess3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely superb. Congratulations, Lilly!!
@stephengwilt3 жыл бұрын
wow that is amazing, you must be so proud of your daughter, what a fantastic job. You have great ingenuity and vision to be able to solve some of the problems you faced and come up with the design from scratch. You have a great future ahead of you.
@PsilentKnight193 жыл бұрын
Wow! I am an avid organist. I love this video! As much as I love organs, I’ve never even thought about making my own! This is my new project for the 2021 year! Thanks for this video and congrats on your organ!
@MattTheLizard3 жыл бұрын
Great job. She is going places.
@Doeff84 жыл бұрын
Very impressive project!
@jairovilar3 жыл бұрын
Congratulations to both father and daughter! Cool!
@MrGreencheetah5 жыл бұрын
Outstanding young lady and organ build!!!
@sergekannon9048 Жыл бұрын
Oh, how utterly delightful!
@marcossidoruk80333 жыл бұрын
Nice build but you got tuning wrong. Its not just adding notes, but multiplying by 2^1/12. for example, let A=440hz, you can calculate A#=A*2^1/12, B=A*2^1/12, etc, etc.
@ricardotejada1113 жыл бұрын
Thank god someone said it
@MartinGaskellMusic3 жыл бұрын
Actually it's not that simple because there is something called an "end correction" to the length that depends on the width of the pipe.
@marcossidoruk80333 жыл бұрын
@@MartinGaskellMusic I was just talking about the frequency of the notes wich she got wrong.
@landonellis85913 жыл бұрын
Real quick, your example shows A# and B having the same equation, so be careful with that. Second, that is fantastic math, except that that shows us the measurement in Hz, not in length. She found a whole step to be +50 in length of her PVC pipes, and added them. She is not being 100% precise here so no one is too concerned if she her instrument isn't perfectly tuned to equal temperament. The only initial issue I see is not accounting for the half steps between E and F and C and B at first and measuring them as the same length as her whole step between C and D. HOWEVER, it is clear in the video that the tuning of the instrument is, while not perfect, absolutely serviceable. This is because, drum roll please, she corrected the mistake. If she hand't, every key past E would have been at least a semitone off. Listen and look again, she tuned her pipes as they were made. While the notes aren't entirely in tune, that can be from many issues (end correction, the temperature/humidity changed since she tuned it, the wood has "breathed" and settled, the paint dried it out/made it too moist ect. ect.). In other words, If you think her notes are full semitones wrong, then you don't know enough about the subject to be lecturing anyone. The math she showed earlier in the vid is obviously not the final math used in her instrument, and if you need any proof of that pause at 4:13 and tell me the size change in those tubes is linear.
@Masterfighterx3 жыл бұрын
@@landonellis8591 She should maybe have cut them a bit shorter and then added a piece that can fit around that pipe to tune it with some tape to add friction (as you do organ pipes made out of lead, and maybe other variants of pipes)
@TheSelfUnemployed3 жыл бұрын
This made me smile first thing in the morning! Thanks for sharing and what a fantastic job!
@kamalbarshevich3 жыл бұрын
This girl really knows how to manipulate with organ. That's really exciting!
@larsfrosznielsen35362 жыл бұрын
Great work and I guess she lerned a lot during the process. Very well done
@transformtransmitt4 ай бұрын
So love this! What fun- and wonderful of you to share!
@SkyQuest2K84 жыл бұрын
Awesome! Great job, Lilly!
@brianarotten29623 жыл бұрын
sooooooo cooool, seriously. Awesome work Lilly
@williamrich76383 жыл бұрын
In the Middle Ages, the most technically advanced thing that humanity could do was build a pipe organ. Kind of like us going to the moon today.
@Elhombresombra3 жыл бұрын
You are right. Pipe organs were the most complex machines that man could build until the Industrial Revolution and steam machines.
@desktorp3 жыл бұрын
except people have actually built pipe organs
@pavlus343 жыл бұрын
@@desktorp no they didn't, I haven't seen one.
@barbaraives49623 жыл бұрын
I hope Lilly got a high distinction for that project! I hope she has a future in organ building.
@HaloMashups3 жыл бұрын
This is so cool!! She has a very interesting accent that’s mostly American, but a tiny but Australian.
@geoh77773 жыл бұрын
The "American accent" is standard in Australia. The ones you hear (like Paul Hogan) are provincials jk
@mwkoskamp13 жыл бұрын
Amazing. So nice to see the effort and commitment.
@brenki3 жыл бұрын
Excellent job, thank you for showing how pipe organs are made! ❤
@rgarlinyc3 жыл бұрын
Very creative, imaginative and talented - congratulations Lilly!👏🏻👏🏻
@edwardlogan74333 жыл бұрын
You should constituter a career in Organ Building we need more Organ Builders in the world and Organists . Great Job Lilly form an Organ Builder in Northern Ireland
@davidmorrison36973 жыл бұрын
Have you ever heard a steam calliope in a circus wagon that had 39 whistles. The pressure on each key is about 80 lbs and the whistles were made from used artillery shells. Was built in 1955, it was only whistles, key board and air chamber with valves. Its in WDM Saskatoon Saskatchewan Canada 🇨🇦. There are air ones in USA, but there is one other in Ontario, Canada.
@InnerPeaceSounds2 жыл бұрын
Awesome job!!
@jonkino3 жыл бұрын
Wow , you are so talented. Incredible. Well done .
@KevinFreist3 жыл бұрын
very cool. you now know how value is made of raw materials. nice job!
@Masterfighterx3 жыл бұрын
410CM is 4.1M. I believe you mean 410MM or 41CM, the most correct to use since you're building is MM😉
@MetalMike503 жыл бұрын
If you want to be completely correct, use mm, not MM
@hibahprice68873 жыл бұрын
Perhaps this is happening in a parallel universe where everything is 10 times larger ..
@Masterfighterx3 жыл бұрын
@@MetalMike50 It was to emphasize
@dozog3 жыл бұрын
Probably the result of not being educated in the metric system. I wonder how many inches that pipe was.🤔
@No1sonuk2 жыл бұрын
@@dozog They're in Australia, which primarily uses metric...
@guybunce3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant work and what a great project to do! Congratulations.
@Dogsnark3 жыл бұрын
Very impressive! Congratulations on this very challenging project.
@JohnWaldron-cm7ce10 ай бұрын
Excellent creation!-John in Texas
@riccardo51043 жыл бұрын
Very good job! I am an italian organ builder working in Barcelona. Congratulation!
@cirrus20135 жыл бұрын
Oh... my... god!!! Well done! Greets from Germany
@derca.3 жыл бұрын
It's a capital G.god with small G means the fake gods.
@murbella72 жыл бұрын
Good job. Tip: use two hands on the saw. This makes it easier and more accurate.
@damianoradaman3 жыл бұрын
Congrats! What a great job!
@paulthelionheart49003 жыл бұрын
Brilliant. Well done Lilly.
@johniorio7951 Жыл бұрын
Really awesome....quite a duanting project
@Karontrix043 жыл бұрын
I was a year 8 project???? She is cute and smart!!! his smile is so frank!
@southwedger3 жыл бұрын
Wow! What a great project! Congratulations.
@davidherbert96014 жыл бұрын
Wow that is just amazing. Great stuff
@JulianMakes3 жыл бұрын
Totally awesome!!! So great when you made that first chord!!! Great job
@jamesgriffin59653 жыл бұрын
Absolutely brilliant effort! Fantastic skills. (Music Teacher in UK)
@shingabiss3 жыл бұрын
A most impressive build Lilly!
@Zer0Spinn3 жыл бұрын
I need to hear strawberry fields forever played on that.
@nivlick3 жыл бұрын
Wrong instrument. You want the melotron.
@Zer0Spinn3 жыл бұрын
@@nivlick no no no, I know it was played on a mellotron. But this reminds me a lot of that mellotron flute, with it's own weird twitst. It's just missing the tape worble lol
@carloswheeldon25533 жыл бұрын
How cool was that! Great job!👍
@thalesvondasos4 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure the high A pipe should be half the length of the low A one and it's off by 10cm, which would explain why it's out of tune. But great build nonetheless
@alpha_31484 жыл бұрын
I agree, and in between one should divide the length of a pipe with the 12th root of 2 (that is around 1.0595 in case you want to try it out) to get to the next semitone instead of adding a fixed length... Still a cool project!
@doctorpropain89024 жыл бұрын
It's because she's adding lengths to get to the notes instead of exponentiating the lengths. Music has a self-similar pattern, in that a chord an octave lower should have the same harmony as that same chord an octave higher. This self similar nature is what makes music an exponential (or logarithmic, depending on how you look at it) system. Using equal temperament, the equation is basically L * (2)^(n/12), where L is whatever the length of the base note you're tuning it off of, and n is the number of half steps above (or below) that note. You will find that, with this equation, an octave below will be exactly 0.5 * L and an octave above will be exactly 2 * L, what it should be. Furthermore, the relative distances (not absolute distances) between C4, E4, G4 will be the exact same relative distances as C5, E5, G5, and so on.
@createinside46134 жыл бұрын
correct, but still a great project
@robwilde8553 жыл бұрын
Yes, but that's from the ignorance of whichever adults were advising her. Not her fault. Apart from that, great work on her part [as you say].
@Zavendea3 жыл бұрын
@@robwilde855 Eh, I mean, she could have researched it herself. When I was in 8th grade I knew the basics of harmonics etc (and if I was doing a project where I needed to know how they worked, I would’ve looked it up!)
@rlwalker23 жыл бұрын
I saw daddy smile as the sweat built up. Good job.
@andreabregonzio72043 жыл бұрын
Bravissima. Sono un appassionato di organi a canne e avrei sempre voluto costruirne uno come hai fatto tu!!! Yeah
@GaragediAntonio1772 жыл бұрын
Great Job! I am currently attempting a project like yours. The pipes sound Great!
@gilsonoi11883 жыл бұрын
Parabéns jovem você é uma menina muito inteligente e muito talentosa. Deus abençoe sua vida.