inciowa
New member
Hello,
Our church just recently refurbished and restored a pipe organ. We never used a pipe organ before and it is an amazing instrument. I just love how it sounds. Of course, there is so much to learn and a lot of trial and error. I am the choir leader of our church and we have two organists. I'm trying to learn everything there is to learn about pipe organs, so I will be asking a lot of questions on this forum. I'm hoping that you will be able to help me understand some of the issues we've encountered so far.
The other night during our worship service, the organ didn't seem to be working right. Here are some of the things that we experienced.
1) A note got stuck. The organist pressed on a key and the note just kept playing. Even though she kept pressing on the key to "release" the note from playing, it would not stop playing. I believe it's called ciphering. (Sorry, I'm still learning the terminology.) She was forced to turn off the organ and turn it back on.
2) Same issue as number 1 listed above, but it was a combination of multiple notes in a low octave. (It sounded like a background music for a scary movie.) This has happened several times in previous worship services and practices and what we've noticed is that it happens whenever the organist uses Swell Set 7.
3) Sometimes notes seem to go out of tune. Unfortunately, I don't know if this is an end-user issue or if it has anything to do with the mechanics of the organ.
Any ideas of what could be causing these issues? Are they all related to temperature change and humidity? Or could it be that there are dusts in the pipes that could be causing these, too? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Our church just recently refurbished and restored a pipe organ. We never used a pipe organ before and it is an amazing instrument. I just love how it sounds. Of course, there is so much to learn and a lot of trial and error. I am the choir leader of our church and we have two organists. I'm trying to learn everything there is to learn about pipe organs, so I will be asking a lot of questions on this forum. I'm hoping that you will be able to help me understand some of the issues we've encountered so far.
The other night during our worship service, the organ didn't seem to be working right. Here are some of the things that we experienced.
1) A note got stuck. The organist pressed on a key and the note just kept playing. Even though she kept pressing on the key to "release" the note from playing, it would not stop playing. I believe it's called ciphering. (Sorry, I'm still learning the terminology.) She was forced to turn off the organ and turn it back on.
2) Same issue as number 1 listed above, but it was a combination of multiple notes in a low octave. (It sounded like a background music for a scary movie.) This has happened several times in previous worship services and practices and what we've noticed is that it happens whenever the organist uses Swell Set 7.
3) Sometimes notes seem to go out of tune. Unfortunately, I don't know if this is an end-user issue or if it has anything to do with the mechanics of the organ.
Any ideas of what could be causing these issues? Are they all related to temperature change and humidity? Or could it be that there are dusts in the pipes that could be causing these, too? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.