Homemade Pipe Organ Tour | #1 Windchest (Somiere) | Sub ITA

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This is the first video of the Homemade Pipe Organ Tour | #1 Windchest (Somiere)
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Background music on this video: Air on G string | Johann Sebastian Bach | Pipe Organ version arranged and played by Jonathan Scott.
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Coming soon:
#2 Keyboard
#3 Pedal + windchest
#4 Blower + bellows
#5 Pipes

[@nippocast]

Please, ask any questions you want in the comments, I will answer in a video. BTW, I know, my "monotone" voice is quite awkard ...😉

[@dlwangxiaohu]

the monotone accent is excellent! Do you speak Italian in the same way?

[@candreel]

You are an inspiration! I have a childhood dream: to have a pipe organ. Now, at the age of 47, I decide to start my work in building my organ. I'll start with simple prototypes until I venture into making the organ fully playable. Your videos will be extremely useful to me. Congratulations for your work!

[@nippocast]

Thanks! I'm glad to hear it

[@patrickmeyer2802]

I've literally been waiting for these videos for like three years. I am so happy that you've done all this. Thankyou so, so much.

[@nippocast]

Thank you Patrick!

[@klavsberks1150]

@@nippocast Hi ,where did you get information,plans or instructions to makepipe organ?

[@nippocast]

@@klavsberks1150 Hi, mainly from the book "the art of organ building vol II" and from practice

[@klavsberks1150]

@@nippocast thanks

[@coertdejong4894]

Best creation shown on KZbin in my opinion

[@nippocast]

Thanks! I appreciate it

[@profeluisegarcia]

Maravilloso trabajo. Felicitaciones y gracias por compartirlo. Luis- Colombia

[@farkasnathan001]

This video is very interesting. I hope you will make some others :))

[@nippocast]

Thanks! Sure, read the description.

[@WolfieNamira]

It kinda reminds me of my reed organ!

[@vincenzopio7382]

Veramente un organo ben fatto!!

[@nippocast]

Grazie Vincenzo!

[@ab4805]

WOW! Art is the best description that I can give to your work. I am really impress. I have acquire 5 ranks of pipes a few years ago, like 30 years or so. I would like to make a wind chest for maybe 3 of the ranks but I still have to start on it. With Haupwerk on computer, I kind of abandoned the idea. I even got the 3 volumes of Dom Bedos on organ making. What a shame that I did not have you on youtube when I was younger. Anyway I am impressed by your work and the sound of your instruments, I beleive that you have more than one now? Happy New Year to you and yours and best of health and hapiness. Keep on showing us your talents. And thank you for doing so.

[@nippocast]

Thnaks for your kind words! I know those volumes, they are very nice.. I am currently working on my third organ.

[@andreavalenti5482]

Fantastic!

[@nippocast]

Thanks!

[@thelutheranorganistguy5722]

Very very interesting how you designed it! Great Job!!!

[@nippocast]

Thanks!

[@alexcariello01]

Wow, sono un musicista e ho appena scoperto il canale e credo che passerò la notte a vedere tutti i video...è una vita che sogno di poter costruire un mini organo a canne... forse con questi tutorial potrei pensarci. Complimenti per il canale, Stupendo!

[@nippocast]

Ciao Alessandro! grazie per le tue parole, non abbandonare il tuo sogno!

[@denizonal5660]

Amazing 🤩

[@nippocast]

Thanks!

[@sawersoft]

Wonderful work!

[@nippocast]

Thanks Mateus!

[@sawersoft]

@@nippocast I love pipe organs and I always visit many of them. I built some wood pipes, pvc pipes, but I never built the whole organ, but I will try it in a few years.

[@lc3869]

Congratulations!!!

[@nippocast]

Thanks!

[@chiccovitez2706]

Wow, Giamma, che capolavoro. Sapevo che avevi la passione per la musica ma qui c è molto di più 👍

[@nippocast]

Grazie!

[@nathanpollard3368]

That is really amazing! Where did you get the pipes?

[@nippocast]

Thanks! I bought the metal ones in England, used to restore

[@drbertus1]

Wow

[@Mikethealtarboy]

What are you using for the pull-down (pull-up?) seals? Audsley mentions leathers that flex with a wooden rod; but says in more recent times brass disks are used. Is what you have there air-tight? (I'm looking forward to seeing what we do for the Portatif organ!)

[@nippocast]

at minute 03:05 you can see the pull up mechanism, I used a disk of plywood with a felt bushing, it's not completely airtight like the leather system but it works pretty well. For the portative organs usually a simple brass rod through a hole in the wood is used. Thanks

[@Mikethealtarboy]

I'm watching this again - I find your arrangement very interesting. I've never seen a diagram otherwise with the pallet box "upside down" - but I suppose there's no reason not to; it saves "vertical space", right? Now are the metal tubes below moving the air from the pallet box to the wind chest? And is *every pipe* on an offset chest connected to the main wind chest by the plastic tubing? (I'm looking at your video on voicing the pipes for the portative - it looks like, perhaps, that allows you to make them all "fit tightly" - it looks like the Venetian Flute and Principal aren't lined up note-for-note - sort of like a direct-electric chest?) It's really neat how small a space you made it all fit into. Also, would a manual roller board - (to make, say, a C side and a C# side) - take a great deal of vertical space? either above or below the keyboard - or is such a thing ever done horizontally?

[@nippocast]

Yes, i used this configuration to save space in height. The tubes carry the wind from the pallet box directly to the soundboards of the various registers. All the pipes are offset, I had to do this to fit 3 large-scale church registers in a 120cm wide and 220cm high box. this organ is fully mechanical, no electric winchest.

[@karlrovey]

Hope your synthetic leather holds up better than the infamous perflex used a couple decades ago.

[@nippocast]

Hi Karl, probably not as good as real leather, but I've been using it for 10 years also for the windchest and it's like new.

[@williamfritz6870]

Thanks for these videos! I've been dreaming of doing my own organ..... Want to start smaller and get bigger. Your videos are inspiring and educational as well! How did you come up with the plans? I've read a few books on "Amateur Organ Building" and those are helpful, for sure.

[@nippocast]

Hi William, thanks for your kind words! Unfortunately, as you may have seen, there are no real projects, I learned some tricks by watching the videos of organ builders, and some by books like "the art of organ building vol II" and "organ building for amateurs" plus some informations in the web

[@dlwangxiaohu]

Could I ask, why cut the grooves at the lower surface of the slider board, rather than at the upper surface? And is it necessary to cut grooves at both surface of the slider? or to cut grooves above or bellow the slider.

[@nippocast]

In my case it was enough to do them on one side only. if there had been some "strasuoni" I would have done them on the other side as well.

[@dlwangxiaohu]

Greetings from China! I've almost watched all of your videos and learnt a lot on the mechanism of pipe organ and certainly would like to try to built one if possible. I'd like to ask what is the diameter of the holes on the slider and the wind chest. I understand that low note pipes have larger holes while high note pipes have smaller hole for the wind to pass through, but how to calculate them? Thanks!

[@nippocast]

Hi Xiaohu! thanks for watching my videos. For the diameters of the holes it depends on the size of the pipes. In principle, for a small postive organ, it ranges from 16mm for the lowest note of the 8' and scaling up to 6mm for the highest note of the 2'.

[@darobzamusic6007]

I am wondering, how do you get the wind to go to multiple pipes? Because I can see if your not carefull, all the wind would go through one pipe when multiple keys are pressed down. Are there channels?

[@nippocast]

that's right, there are as many channels as there are keys

[@venceremosallende422]

Is there a reason you took synthetic leather? Because I only have normal leather?

[@nippocast]

Hi, normal leather is the best (if you intent sheep leather). I used synthetic leather for practicality and convenience, but in the new organ I'll use sheep leather

[@Box52222]

Genius

[@csx_defectdetector]

Is the background music on your organ?

[@nippocast]

No, it's from scottbrothersduo

[@flatzrigerson7475]

what seal did you use on the pallets? could it be felt, or leather?

[@nippocast]

It's synthetic leather

[@appo038]

4:45 Is the loss of the pressure really big with long way to the pipes? Which rubber hoses are better here, thick or thin?

[@nippocast]

Hi, up to 40 / 50cm the loss is negligible, it is like having a long foot of the pipes. I don't think thickness affects pressure, while internal diameter does: bigger is always better.

[@justinnaramor6050]

I'm still kind of learning about how pipe organs work, because I actually never really learned about it before. Would it be correct for me to say that the windchest essentially acts like a balloon, in that it stores air inside it like a balloon does? My current understanding is that when you press the keys, the valves on the keys open up, causing that air stored in the windchest to escape into the pipes. Air is sent to the windchest by bellows or some other means. I've been learning about how bagpipes work, and it seems to me the mechanical workings of pipe organs are actually very similar to how bagpipes work, at least when it comes to the actual air supply portion of the instrument. When playing bagpipes, air is not immediately blown into the pipes to make sound, like it would be on a saxophone or something. Rather, air is first supplied to the bag, and the air from the bag is then transferred to the pipes which make sound. So it seems to me something very similar is happening in pipe organs; the windchest is acting as the "bag" which is first blown up with air and then that air is transferred to the pipes when the keys are depressed. Would this be correct? Or am I totally wrong in my observation?

[@nippocast]

Not exactly, to make a correspondence with the human body, the blower is the air available, the bellows are us who inhale, the windchest are the lungs, the throat are the pallets and the vocal cords are the pipes.

[@justinnaramor6050]

@@nippocast That's an interesting observation, hadn't looked at it that way before! In fact I actually did some further reading specifically on windchests in pipe organs, and it seems to me they're really just a wooden box (I.E they're not actually "inflatable" in the same way as a balloon). Still though, it has to be "storing" air first; the valves on top of the chest then allow that air to escape out (because the chest has slots in it, for that very reason); this air then goes to the pipes. In the same way that you would store air from your lungs in your throat and then open your throat to let that air through your vocal cords. The air around us is where everything starts; we then use our lungs to store that air, then that air goes through our throat and vocal cords and out the mouth and so on... if that makes sense?

[@axelvekemans6750]

I love your accent

[@williammitchell1864]

nippocast, What is the name of the score being played and who wrote it?

[@nippocast]

Hi William, it is Air on G string from Johann Sebastian Bach.

[@venceremosallende422]

nippocast On your organ?

[@nippocast]

@@venceremosallende422 Hi, no it's not my organ

[@_mayor1599]

Hello, I would like to know what size are the channels inside the windchest? Are the channels the same? Will it be okay if I make all the channels the same size?

[@nippocast]

if it is a small organ with 1 or 2 registers it is fine with all the channels the same, following the spacing of the keys. eg: a 10mm x 40mm section and 4mm separators is already sufficient (usually the distance between the keys is 14mm)

[@_mayor1599]

@@nippocast Yes, it will be a small organ with a scale of 4 octaves and 3 or 2 voices. I was thinking of 1.5 cm channels for the first 2 octaves and 1 cm for the other channels, but I don't know if that will be working, I want to be sure.

[@nippocast]

@@_mayor1599 What matters is the section area, but I think it is more than enough for a small organ, but it depends on the size of the pipes. If you want to be sure you have to add the area of ​​the holes at the foot of all the pipes for each channel (eg: bourdon8, octave 4 , principal2 ) and multiply the result by 2.

[@_mayor1599]

@@nippocast Ok, thanks for the advice

[@HannaŻuchowska-c4q]

Jakiej grubości jest drut z którego są wykonane sprężyny ?

[@nippocast]

1,5 mm

[@federicobattistiol780]

Buongiorno, potrebbe spiegarmi dove si trova la stecca dei registri del Bordone? Perchè nel video si vedono solo le altre due e dalle immagini non riesco a capirlo. Grazie

[@nippocast]

Ciao, è nella parte inferiore se somiere, in pratica nella parte opposta alle due stecche degli altri due registri.

[@federicobattistiol780]

@@nippocast grazie!

[@federicobattistiol780]

E tanti complimenti! Un'opera magnifica!

[@jelmarvanderwal7368]

I would like to know the wind pressure on the windchest of your organ.

[@nippocast]

Thanks for the question, I will answer in a video

[@Denny_Eddy]

Much respect. I’m interested in creating a portative design that can be cut out with a laser cutter, much the same way a “nerdy Gurdy’ is created. Feel free to contact.

[@dlwangxiaohu]

Could I ask why using plastic tubes to contect the topboard with the pipes, why not directly placing the pipes above. 3:46

[@nippocast]

Due the lack of space I've placed the windchest lower than usual and I had to carry the air with the hoses.

[@dlwangxiaohu]

@@nippocast Is there any cons to connect the windchest, the soundboard and the pipes using hoses? the response would be a little slower? Is this design a conventional one? thanks!

[@nippocast]

​@@dlwangxiaohu HI! no, there are no delays but there is some pressure loss. no, this design is not conventional, I choose it for the lack of space

[@dlwangxiaohu]

@@nippocast thanks so much for the reply！

[@francobianco8418]

Ma sei italiano?

[@nippocast]

Ciao Franco, si... si capisce dal mio inglese maccheronico😅

[@francobianco8418]

@@nippocast hahaha tranquillo, io sono sicuramente peggio di te!!! Io sono Veneto e avevo intenzione anche io di costruirmi un organo in casa... È un idea un po' di fantasia al momento ma cerco di svilupparla... Facevo delle ricerche su YT e mi è uscito il tuo canale!!! Grazie mille per i tuoi video, il tuo organo è fantastico, prendo ispirazione da te!!!

[@nippocast]

@@francobianco8418 Bene, quest'autunno farò un format dove costruirò un organetto... se non sei ancora iscritto, e se ti fa piacere, fallo così ti arriva la notifica di quando farò il video. Saluti