Hello, list
I have enjoyed reading and researching what the constituents share.
Thank you for taking time to inform us of the details we can use.
Newcomers are asked to share, so I will!
I am Paul, live in Southern California about halfway
between Hollywood and Palm Springs.
I am a media producer, creating "retro-tech" Multi-Media
12 to 24-projector 35MM slide shows on computerized
dissolve equipment manufactured by Clear Light corp.
(also employ videoprojectors and computerized lights and
other special effects controls).
I tour with three 9x13' screens, as well as storyboarding a
museum historical production that will surround the room on
a variety of screens and surfaces.
My current project is creating a touring replica of the local
Wurlitzer 216 theatre pipe organ I discovered languishing in
our local theater that is the last remaining one in its original
location on planet earth. We began a restoration project.
I have gutted a Conn 650 organ console and am recreating
within its frame a replica-style of the Wurli, modifying the
organ from templates I created with photos I shot of the
original console in the orchestra pit at the theater.
In addition to console shaping, this involves altering all the
stoptabs, and adding new ones, to become MIDI trigger signals
for the PC boards I am creating (from MIDIbox <ucapps.de>)
so this new console with MIDI keyboards and pedals, triggered
by the new MIDI stoptabs can tour to school assemblies, garden
weddings, Kiwanis luncheons and wherever lounge lizards gather
... skating rinks and pizza parlors, perhaps? ... we'll see.
But as well as the LOOK it must SOUND like a theatre pipe organ.
This organ will travel with my new productions as well as my
current Christmas Carol SingAlong tour with recorded MIDI
tracks for accompaniment.
Presently I have been using computerized cue tracks
(synchronized with sound tracks) that are too sophisticated
to sequence real-time.
As soon as the touring organ is completed, future tours
will feature click-track earphones for organist to wear to keep
in sync with projections, similar to old-time silent cinema
organists in grandpa's day (without the "bouncing ball," heh!).
I am creating a hundred speakers to travel with this organ,
and eventually will augment the speakers with two ranks
of wind-blown pipe chests. (MIDI can tune the speakers to
the tune of the pipes somewhat).
Presently have 62 speakers, from a 29" Yamaha to 1" HF
drivers,with 18's 15' and bo-ku 8's thrown into a literal
diverse forest of cabinets of all sizes and shapes, including
several cabinets with Leslie rotating speakers.
At the home base, these speakers sing the songs from a
variety of electronic organs I plug into them, including a Conn,
Allen, Baldwin, Artisan, Hammond and whatever else I may be
able to acquire as my museum expands.
You can see what a thrill it as been to read the valuable posts
on this list. I am grateful for all who share their knowledge with
folks like me with more desire than knowledge.
When I first began to study to augment my speaker system
by the book, "Theory and Design of Loudspeaker Enclosures"
by Benson (BSC, ME, FIEE), thinking it would help me.
Help me? As Lucy would say to Charlie Brown. "AAUGH!"
It is waaaaay over my head. I am not a rocket scientist.
When I began to research more down-to earth explanations
I ran across your list, and I am able to maintain my sanity
with practical and sane, workable information.
Again, thanks for providing such wonderful "sound" advice.
I definitely qualify as an audioholic.
Paul
