Welcome to my next bad idea...

[@timlinnabary8296]

Saving any musical instrument from destruction is a noble cause. Good on you!👍

[@lotsabirds]

I worked on many pipe organs..try to find out the history on this one. Find out when it was rebuilt last. Wind chests could have bad leather, corroded magnets, broken wiring and many other issues. Im not sure of your familiarity with this instrument yet. I'm looking forward to your escapades. Have leather and felt on hand. It's easier to rework wind chests before everything is together. You will go nuts...its all rediundant...you've seen one wire, you've seen them all. Wiring them to the right chests and magnets(if indeed it is using electromagnets under the valves) will drive you buggy. If you haven't had experience with hide glue, leather punches and making valves, you're in for a treat. There's nothing like making a valve too baggy or too tight and finding leaks after it's all put together. Good luck, my friend....im rooting for you!

[@oaktadopbok665]

My dad and I took a three-chest organ out of a Catholic Church near Chicago when I was in high school. We restored it in our basement. We put the 3-stage centrifugal blower in our garage and ran 14" diameter pipe to the air reservoirs. We rewired the console by hand, Including analog switches for the 16 stops and couplers great-to-swell, swell to great, pedal to great, etc. We had two ranks of 8-foot stopped pedal pipes as well as an 8-foot trompette, flute, a nice aolian string chest with 6 ranks including a lovely vox humana. My dad had experience working for LaMarche manufacturing restoring pipe organs in the years after WWII, and he taught me a lot. It takes dedication and patience, but anyone with decent woodworking and soldering skill could do it. It's not easy, but believe it or not, the machine is really pretty simple! (Oh - it helps to have leatherworking knowledge.)

[@bikkies]

That's a great project. I can envisage all kinds of obstacles such as voicing, tuning and even the raw mechanics of how to route airflow. However I envy you for having the desire to do this, as it's an undertaking that's an order of magnitude beyond anything I'd even contemplate. I've thought more than once about trying to find a working full-size pedalboard so that I could remind myself how abysmal my hands/feet coordination can be, but that was a non starter. It's on my to-do list of projects to procrastinate over considering contemplating whether to conceptually assess the feasibility, but not right now.

[@TrentHamilton]

Oh yes, there're all manner of obstacles that I've already run into, mostly caused because the organ was build on 1930's technology which took up a huge amount of floorspace. I'm in the process of retrofitting some of it, and slowly reassembling what I've finished.

[@vetsurginc]

That should keep you away from nappy duty!

[@TrentHamilton]

No, it hasn't, sadly

[@Gravity461]

My grandma built a pipe organ in her house. It is from a church that got rid of it, similar to this situation you’re in. So now there is just a pipe organ in her living room that took five years to reassemble. We’re hoping to get it working better sometime soon because there are a multitude of things that are not working properly after 20 years. Who knows, maybe I’ll learn something from this series!

[@waynesteffen3262]

A small child and a large organ at the same time. I salute you, sir, as you enter the land of even less sleep!

[@captaincool3329]

It's great to hear you've saved those pipe organs. I've saved two old pump organs that I'll figure out how to service one day. But it's sad to hear about the church being demolished.

[@adamdarby5849]

Mate this is brilliant, keen to see how this plays out

[@malcolml861]

All I can say is that I’m extremely excited to see this journey! Can’t wait to see how this turns out

[@and7barton]

I had the same idea some time ago ! - after some deep introspection, I abandoned the idea. something I've never regretted, so I'll be watching your progress with great interest. I ended up building a big modular synth instead.

[@jarperhones5364]

good choice man, what sort of approaches do you usually take with the synth? I don't have a synth to call my own, but I love the idea of putting something together with the intention of piping my trumpet sounds through it. Sarah Belle Reid does this very thing, she makes some gnarly noise music.

[@and7barton]

@@jarperhones5364 I've been messing around with synths for over thirty years, both modular and non-modular. I began with an SH101, then through an EMS VCS3, then a couple of Wasps + Spiders. all hooked up together in a large custom cabinet. And now, a large modular, mostly Behringer, in a five-foot long cabinet with around thirty modules, and controlled from a Behringer Poly D, an Arturia Keystep and a couple of other MIDI keyboards. Began by composing odd tracks using a software-based 8 channel recorder after a couple of years with a Boss 8-channel hardware minidisk BR8. I'm now just playing around with some sequencing and occasionally enjoying creating various experimental patches.

[@raimogeel9497]

What the love of instruments can do with a person, great that you saved it and try to make it functional again. The guy of ‘look mum no computer’ also obtained a church organ. He is more into electronics, maybe as a fellow KZbinr you can get information on the project.

[@Aardvark892]

Trent, the weight loss looks great on you. Congratulations, handsome!

[@svbarryduckworth628]

This explains the conversation I overheard the other day between a couple of women who were talking about Trent's HUGE organ.

[@TrentHamilton]

Need their phone numbers for research.

[@jeffreyyoung4104]

I love when people rescue and restore old organs from churches and movie theaters. There were a couple of restaurants that had a pipe organ in America, and they closed after a few years due to the businesses not making enough profit, but they were great to go to when they were open! I don,t know what you plan on, but good luck in restoring it!!

[@Arthur-hg7ny]

Pipe organs are the dinosaur of the keyboard world. They are disappearing along with the professionals who play them. It’s unfortunate.

[@TrentHamilton]

I would disagree. They're certainly growing less mainstream, but there are still new instruments being built around the world, and the occasional madman like me trying to restore them. I don't think they'll ever go extinct.

[@Arthur-hg7ny]

@@TrentHamilton good point. What is making a resurgence are all 1980’s synths. Roland, Oberheim, and Prophets are skyrocketing.

[@michaelshelley1289]

wow....you look amazing!!!! i don't know what you've done but good on ya!!!!

[@anthonykaiser974]

IF I win a sizable lottery, I would do likewise. My new mansion would be a walk-in pipe organ 😁

[@dcallan812]

Have a look at LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER and his other channel he has just got his hands on a pipe organ and is rebuilding it to work with MIDI.

[@TrentHamilton]

I've been following his project for a little while. Very interesting!

[@akswrkzvyuu7jhd]

WOW! My office partner in graduate school rebuilt pipe organs for a hobby. Its going to be a handful and a half of a project, but you can do it, Trent.

[@ClogDancingFiddler]

Good luck with the organ transplant!

[@TheStickCollector]

Interesting. Would be good brain exercise to rebuild a pipe organ from scratch.

[@LeslieMatheson]

I had a classmate who's father built one from a kit. Keyboard in finished basement, long pipes up a fake chimney.

[@HammondDirk]

Cool, I would be immediately in for such a thing if I would have the time and space... So for now, I'll stay on a MIDIfied Hammond A-100 that also can dub as console for virtual pipe organs... I guess here you're talking about organs with electrical traction? And complete stops or extended ranks? Would love to see and hear more about it!

[@v_munu]

bro is living my dream

[@dominicneureiter6557]

Just make a big brass instrument instead with the piping

[@jakobcallsen540]

I am so excited for this new project!

[@willemkossen]

lovely. that's the second organ rescue project i'm going to follow on the tubes. you probably know about 'look mum no computer' doing an organ repurposing currently on youtube?. interesting stuff. greetings from the Netherlands. as a side note, just this weekend i visited the Dutch National Organ Museum who also has a youtube channel. i kinda like organs. unfortunately house management won't have one at home...

[@hrenes]

No embouchure required, good for in between blowing brass.

[@laurencefinston7036]

Rebuilding an organ! That's a daunting prospect.

[@bobbyfeatherstone2834]

Who's the skinny kid?

[@christophertsiliacos8958]

Trent will see no musical instrument destroyed before its time. 😁

[@olliutriainen6992]

Have you seen Look Mum no Computer's organ project?

[@uni-byte]

Wow Trent! Good luck with this one.

[@michaelimbesi2314]

This sounds like a very interesting series!

[@Entety303]

How is the protective euphonium?

[@johnpatterson8697]

my favorite youtuber and organ harvester

[@TrentHamilton]

Kidneys accepted

[@azxtnt]

You should make a video on how to restring trombone/French horn triggers, their aren’t many on the internet that are very useful, and I know you could make a really good one!

[@Gravity461]

I would definitely benefit from this.. seeing as I mess up my French horn at least once every two months Lol.

[@trainliker100]

There are already superb KZbin videos for this. "The Brass and Woodwind Shop" perhaps has the best with "How To Restring French Horn Rotor Valves" and once restrung they have the video "How To Adjust French Horn Levers". If you can't do it from those videos, you should probably switch to another instrument. Tip: Get really good screwdrivers because almost nobody already has them. Screwdrivers for gunsmithing are good. Some good brands are Wheeler, Weaver, and Grace. One of the things that make them better is a proper grind at the tip of flat tip screwdrivers. They are ground so that the faces are parallel (and not tapered like so many cheap screwdrivers) so they tend not to slip out of screw slots.

[@Gravity461]

Well yes.. I know there are videos out there, but some of them used the tools that you are talking about. Which I didn’t have and I needed to fix it fast. And no. I’m not switching instruments as I’ve been playing horn for six years and I love the sound of it. I can also play trumpet and trombone but I like french horn the most. Another factor that leads to it breaking is I am renting It from my high school and and it is not the best. Thanks for the recommendation for videos, but I’ve probably already seen them.

[@azxtnt]

@@trainliker100 I’ve never seen their video in it, and I already have screwdrivers for it.

[@azxtnt]

I think the restringing is the main reason I bought a new trigger trombone that doesnt use string

[@MrInitialMan]

So, are you going to add a custom Martin's Trumpet stop? *Grin*

[@flyinggirl3121]

Looking forward to the wild ride!

[@matthewwilson9749]

Looking forward to it

[@bruceroberts8208]

This is a good idea Trent. When you reassemble it, would you consider starting up your own Church or at the very least Trumpet and Organ recitals?

[@TrentHamilton]

Won't fit a church in my music room! But trumpet and organ recitals sound fantastic

[@NonTwinBrothers]

We're gonna help you write a script again?

[@TrentHamilton]

Oh that was a real winner of an idea.

[@CappeSun]

You might want to check out LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER, he recently started putting a salvaged organ together as well, for some ideas

[@TrentHamilton]

Yes, I've been following the project with interest!

[@Phantas1ze]

how does an organ even work

[@arisowizard7178]

is the old compressor still there and would you be interested in making a video disassembling that thing?

[@TrentHamilton]

Don't use compressors - but there is a very large centrifugal blower.

[@newclarence]

Okay, I'm convinced. You are absolutely nuts.

[@marcuswade5422]

Haven't watched in a few years. Trent Hamilton do be looking good though. Almost didn't recognize you😁

[@MarkWick]

This is an interesting project. Maybe will will help you to organically grow your channel even more.

[@TrentHamilton]

Sounds swell

[@MarkWick]

@@TrentHamilton good one!

[@trainliker100]

Ouch. Why don't you pipe down.

[@davidbostock6933]

What's a bad idea for you may be a great idea for someone in an organ preservation society. USA has free online archives of Early 1900s ragtime & 2 step piano sheet music no one has listened to for 100 years to play on such. Here's a worse idea, much worse: Roland FR-1xb button-type virtual accordion.

[@ronniemillsap]

awewsome!

[@MrBass4art]

Trent you are like me a Musical instrument addict? The difference I have a ton of string instruments plus a tuba and keyboard

[@TrentHamilton]

You just said "musical instrument addict" and "have a ton of string instruments" - not sure that qualifies :P

[@MrBass4art]

@@TrentHamilton viola,violin,2 mandolins, 2 guitars, 3 bass guitars, upright bass, 3 ukuleles of different sizes that is what I have

[@faustinerice3104]

Epic!!!!!!!

[@jeffkokes1360]

this should skyrocket ur channel if u can do the video editing well enough. maybe try to hire someone to help in that regard?

[@Charles-Reardon]

HAHA YESS!!

[@revnrave]

you lost weight! whats y0ur secret?

[@TrentHamilton]

Meth

[@revnrave]

@@TrentHamilton 🤣

[@NisusGG]

yoo