Bumblebee001
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Hello all,
May I introduce my new website http://maltesepipeorgans.webs.com/ to this community. It is fully functional except that the virtual replica of the first Maltese Historic Pipe Organ is still being developed and therefore not yet available for downloading. The website appears on Google.
Any donations or sponsorship for the project are most welcomed. Donations can be done with PayPal through the website and sponsors can write to me by clicking the "Become a Sponsor Now" button. Sponsors will not only be acknowledged but will feature prominently on both the website and on the consoles of the virtual organ replicas created with their help.
The project aims to accomplish the following objectives:
* increasing awareness of this largely unknown National Heritage;
* promoting the organ as the King of all instruments;
* encouraging music students to take up the organ as their instrument of choice;
* giving the opportunity to established musicians anywhere in the world to hear and actually play these instruments in the comfort of their home and in public; and
* allowing students, musicians and researchers a unique opportunity to analyze the sounds and compare organs from different periods - as early as the 16th century and as late as the early 20th century - that's a staggering 400 year period in the history of pipe organs!
It will also help in promoting the sanctuaries where these instruments are housed. These sanctuaries are works of art in themselves as photos posted there will gradually reveal.
The virtual replicas are being developed so professionally that it would be impossible to distinguish them from the real instruments. Each organ that will appear on the website will be the next best thing to actually playing the real thing!
Links are provided to help the newbies set themselves up and get all the assistance needed from people like you who have been active in this sphere for many years. One may get in touch with developers of the software needed to install and play these organs, other developers of virtual instruments (organs, harpsichords, theatre organs, pianos), musicians, computer gurus, and many other experts who do what they do freely and without any obligations - merely for the love of these instruments and their joy at helping their fellow men and women around the world.
Bookmark the site and watch that space regularly. The first organ for both jOrgan and GrandOrgue will be available for download very soon. What will be notable is that the jOrgan version will be constructed with 12 samples per octave - the first ever - and still be well within the sf2 limit.
The project is currently a joint venture between me and Panos Ghekas already very well known to most of us and therefore needs no introduction.
Support this website ("like" it) and therefore the project so that we can move forward and continue surprising the world with the little gems we have on the Island Republic of Malta and its sister island Gozo. Your support will prove to potential sponsors, fund donors and the respective authorities locally that there certainly is a great following and a significant world-wide interest in this sphere. In this way our work will earn recognition and the co-operation needed from those who till now remain rather skeptical.
May I introduce my new website http://maltesepipeorgans.webs.com/ to this community. It is fully functional except that the virtual replica of the first Maltese Historic Pipe Organ is still being developed and therefore not yet available for downloading. The website appears on Google.
Any donations or sponsorship for the project are most welcomed. Donations can be done with PayPal through the website and sponsors can write to me by clicking the "Become a Sponsor Now" button. Sponsors will not only be acknowledged but will feature prominently on both the website and on the consoles of the virtual organ replicas created with their help.
The project aims to accomplish the following objectives:
* increasing awareness of this largely unknown National Heritage;
* promoting the organ as the King of all instruments;
* encouraging music students to take up the organ as their instrument of choice;
* giving the opportunity to established musicians anywhere in the world to hear and actually play these instruments in the comfort of their home and in public; and
* allowing students, musicians and researchers a unique opportunity to analyze the sounds and compare organs from different periods - as early as the 16th century and as late as the early 20th century - that's a staggering 400 year period in the history of pipe organs!
It will also help in promoting the sanctuaries where these instruments are housed. These sanctuaries are works of art in themselves as photos posted there will gradually reveal.
The virtual replicas are being developed so professionally that it would be impossible to distinguish them from the real instruments. Each organ that will appear on the website will be the next best thing to actually playing the real thing!
Links are provided to help the newbies set themselves up and get all the assistance needed from people like you who have been active in this sphere for many years. One may get in touch with developers of the software needed to install and play these organs, other developers of virtual instruments (organs, harpsichords, theatre organs, pianos), musicians, computer gurus, and many other experts who do what they do freely and without any obligations - merely for the love of these instruments and their joy at helping their fellow men and women around the world.
Bookmark the site and watch that space regularly. The first organ for both jOrgan and GrandOrgue will be available for download very soon. What will be notable is that the jOrgan version will be constructed with 12 samples per octave - the first ever - and still be well within the sf2 limit.
The project is currently a joint venture between me and Panos Ghekas already very well known to most of us and therefore needs no introduction.
Support this website ("like" it) and therefore the project so that we can move forward and continue surprising the world with the little gems we have on the Island Republic of Malta and its sister island Gozo. Your support will prove to potential sponsors, fund donors and the respective authorities locally that there certainly is a great following and a significant world-wide interest in this sphere. In this way our work will earn recognition and the co-operation needed from those who till now remain rather skeptical.
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