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Wind Disturbance in GO

Mick Berg

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I know that unsteady wind is not available to Hauptwerk users in the USA because of some legal situation. Is the same thing true with GO?
I really miss it in the sound of the baroque style organs.
Thanks,
Mick Berg.
 

Mick Berg

New member
I know that unsteady wind is not available to Hauptwerk users in the USA because of some legal situation. Is the same thing true with GO?
I really miss it in the sound of the baroque style organs.
Thanks,
Mick Berg.

No replies? Is this subject taboo???
Mick.
 

Mick Berg

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GO does not have any wind model.
Well, if it could be done legally, I would love it. It's surprising what a difference it makes in Baroque organ music, anyone who has Lionel Rogg's Bach recording on the Arlesheim Silbermann will attest to that.
Is there any chance that it might happen?
Thanks,
Mick.
 

astazou

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Well, if it could be done legally, I would love it. It's surprising what a difference it makes in Baroque organ music
IMHO, wind unsteadiness results from a defective wind supply. I don't find it a pleasurable "feature".
Did you ever play an organ where the sound wobbles with the size of the chords ? When the tuning plummets down because the wind supply can't cope ?
I do, and I don't like it at all.

Do remember that JS Bach used to terrorize organ builders when he was the expert in charge of signing off new construction or heavy repairs, because he used to pull all that was available and stress test the wind supply. Many prestigious organs are said to have failed his test.
Wind stability has been an eternal search during all of 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Present-day organists have to do acrobatics to work around defective wind supplies.
Marginally defective can indeed sound "lively".

But you can't have it in Hauptwerk either
Except if MDA pays royalties for patent usage. Did they ?
 

Mick Berg

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IMHO, wind unsteadiness results from a defective wind supply. I don't find it a pleasurable "feature".
Did you ever play an organ where the sound wobbles with the size of the chords ? When the tuning plummets down because the wind supply can't cope ?
I do, and I don't like it at all.

Do remember that JS Bach used to terrorize organ builders when he was the expert in charge of signing off new construction or heavy repairs, because he used to pull all that was available and stress test the wind supply. Many prestigious organs are said to have failed his test.
Wind stability has been an eternal search during all of 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Present-day organists have to do acrobatics to work around defective wind supplies.
Marginally defective can indeed sound "lively".


Except if MDA pays royalties for patent usage. Did they ?

I'm not a professional organist and I respect your opinion. In the Rogg recordings the little "shakes" that happen give some expression to the music I think. But of course a sagging wind supply that puts the whole organ out of tune is not good.

I did know about Bach's "terror tests". I think Henry Willis also got into trouble over the Albert Hall organ lacking power, and someone said "I said your Diapasons, Willis, not your Dulcianas!"

Mick Berg.
 
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