[HN Gopher] Free Organ ___________________________________________________________________ Free Organ Author : mhb Score : 88 points Date : 2023-06-21 19:18 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.organclearinghouse.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.organclearinghouse.com) | johnea wrote: | What is up w/ the connection of organs to religion? | | Couple it w/ a little glia stimulating light and you're off to | nirvana... | blowski wrote: | John Calvin would wholeheartedly agree with you. | RajT88 wrote: | So this must be where these things end up, after a priest wakes | up bleary-eyed after too much sacramental wine on the floor of | the church, discovering his organ has been stolen. | awayto wrote: | Looking at a lot of the entries, how do you even go about moving | these? | cj wrote: | Somewhat unrelated, but I found the pricing page interesting: | https://www.organclearinghouse.com/fees | | > The cost of relocating, refurbishing, restoring, renovating a | vintage organ is typically 2/3 or 3/4 that of commissioning a new | organ. | | A free organ (I suppose unsurprisingly) is very expensive. | chankstein38 wrote: | And the finder's fee is $2500 O_O very much not free! | asdfman123 wrote: | That's about the cost of paying someone for 2-4 weeks of | work. Seems about right for finding a new owner for an organ. | bombcar wrote: | $2500 is chump change for the costs involved with something | like this. | tgsovlerkhgsel wrote: | When the cost of moving/installing the organ exceeds a | million, it kind of puts the fee into perspective and | explains why they can rely on the honor system for a 2.5k | charge. | JoeAltmaier wrote: | This may be the mother of all white elephants. | throwawayai2 wrote: | 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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PwwRR8deHk | wildrhythms wrote: | I deeply love this Youtube channel, and I have been following | his organ saga for quite a while! The initial | move/reinstallation was super enlightening to understand how | organs actually work. | vitruvius wrote: | This is a huge instrument; the cost of refurbishing it and | installing it would easily be $2M+, so the fact that it's free is | sort of beside the point! | bombcar wrote: | Or if you're a professional organ refurbisher, now you can have | one at home, too! | cstross wrote: | If the Large Hot Pipe Organ showed up on this website I'd have to | fight the terrible compulsion to try and find a budget for it | ...! | | https://archive.org/details/iuma-large_hot_pipe_organ | | "The Large Hot Pipe Organ is the world's only MIDI controlled, | propane powered explosion organ. The LHPO's pyro-acoustic | explodo-rhythmations will throbbatize your earholes and dance-ify | your booty and make you realize what "Industrial Music" REALLY | means! | | "Performing live at contemporary art festivals throughout | Austria, Germany, Denmark, and Holland, the LHPO is an experience | of sound, light, heat, rhythm and fire you won't want to miss." | | (At least it was, as of a couple of decades ago.) | jnwatson wrote: | When it has a walk-in airlock, you know you'll need some space. | tsunamifury wrote: | Wait, does Hans Zimmer use this for his percussion lines? | noizejoy wrote: | There's even a term for that: | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRAAAM | shaftway wrote: | This is not where the GPS said we were going. | | Similarly, if you like your nostalgia mashed up with unexpected | genres, it's worth trying out Organ Trail. | | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hatsproduc... | [deleted] | rebeccaskinner wrote: | Oh, musical instruments. Nevermind. | yegle wrote: | As someone whose first language is not English this title | confuses me a lot. | | Similarly I very recently learned the name of the flute-like | instrument is called "recorder" :-( | schoen wrote: | I think most English native speakers would probably think of | human bodily organs before the musical instrument, without | context. I definitely did. | | Apparently the multiple meanings were already present to some | extent as far back as Ancient Greek: https://en.wiktionary.or | g/wiki/%E1%BD%84%CF%81%CE%B3%CE%B1%C... | | It's kind of like '(useful) thingy'. | | > Similarly I very recently learned the name of the flute- | like instrument is called "recorder" :-( | | That one bugged me a lot in elementary school, as I kept | thinking "if it's called a recorder, it should record | something!". | perihelions wrote: | - _" The organ is immense: 117 ranks, including three full-length | 32' voices..."_ | | Hmm, how tall is this ceiling right here... umm... maybe I can | bend them just a little idk | | edit: Oh, I know: I can just stick them out the window and out | past the neighbors' windows above. There is no flaw in this plan | mrob wrote: | You actually can bend organ pipes (called "mitering"), and they | will still work. | | Photo showing this: | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herschbach_%26_Girod... | | You can even have multiple bends to snake it up and down. | ASalazarMX wrote: | Awesome! Now I only need to find a sensible use for a giant | pipe organ at home. | [deleted] | perihelions wrote: | - _" sensible"_ | | There's no such thing as an unsensible hobby. Who could | even arbitrate that? Who arbitrates what the meaning of fun | is, for you, personally? | aae42 wrote: | wives | dheera wrote: | > Who could even arbitrate that? | | HOAs. They should be outlawed, or at least made legally | non-mandatory. | tjr wrote: | https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/organ.html | jll29 wrote: | The art of computer programming is not Donald Knuth's | only art to master... | | Actually vol. 4b of TAOCP has a (combinatorial) exercise | about the possible configuration settings of DK's private | organ; I think I saw it near page 300 or so. | robocat wrote: | An example with bent wood pipes: | https://www.organclearinghouse.com/3034-zimmer-residence- | org... | InitialLastName wrote: | You can even wrap the pipe back into a tight coil and add | valves so the player can change the length manually[0] | | [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_horn | BizarroLand wrote: | Congratulations, you have just reinvented the sousaphone | pimlottc wrote: | Where does it say this organ is free? There's no price listed. | Other organs on the same site have prices or explicitly say | "free". | Chilko wrote: | From the site: "The City of San Francisco will give the organ | without charge to a new owner with the stipulation that it must | remain intact and historically whole." | [deleted] | api wrote: | So this means they're an organ donor? | GNOMES wrote: | Reminds me of a post on Reddit a few years ago about a guy with | an organ in his house: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7sT_FqTi6A | [deleted] | bombcar wrote: | Here's another one: https://www-cs- | faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/organ.html [1] | | [1] Famous for other works in Mad Magazine, mainly ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-06-21 23:00 UTC)