Beiträge von Xiaohu Wang

Zitat von JGB

Hello Xiaohu,

so nice to read from you. I'm blown away by the creativity and effort you put into those project.

Glad I could be part of it (indirectly but this is a nice thing of modern communication: To help and collaborate over thousand kilometers distance)

Greetings with a big smile from Germany!

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Hello dear Jans,

I has been a while and really appreciate your help during the process! I am planning if it is possible to combine the midi pedalboard to the kistorgel together so that the organ can be played both hands and feet. I find that you have a post on this topic and I am about to read it in details. Thank you!

Very best,

Xiaohu

Dear friends of hausorgel forum,

It has been about two years since my previous update, I have really missed you and there is a lot to share during the past years.

Most importantly , I have opened a selective course regarding organ building in the technical university I am working in, thus each semester there are about 40 telented young students would enroll this course, therefore I could try out many ideas, here are the things I have done or is doing:

a. Pedal board for midi practice (finished)

b. 200 small wooden organ pipes as gift for new students enrolled (finished), I also made a short video to record the process (in Chinese)

c. 3D printed demo organ (5 &13 keys) easy for assembly (almost finished still room for improvement)

d. Portative organ (under construction) follows the youtuber nippocast: https://www.youtube.com/@nippocast

f. Demo organ for a museum in Xiamen (partially finished)

g. Hydrolis for another university museum (under construction)

h. Small sea organ resembles to the one in Zadar (finished)

i. upgrades on the kistorgel following Mr. Theo Koele's design. (on-going)

And it is recently played by Prof. Vincent Bernhardt, this is a video link.

https://youtube.com/shorts/6P5D5dRt37Y?si=1Nk19DwaejjnW7hB

I will continue post new photos or video links.

Thank you for your attention and with my best regards from China,

Xiaohu

This is a workshop at the university where I am working at, part of the work is finished at this place.

Thanks Jens and Peter for your kind encouragement. This is a new recording using my cell phone that presents a small part of Mozart performed by a friend of mine.

Only the 4' pipes were used.
Best, Xiaohu

Hello organbuilders,

I really miss everyone very much and I am always appreciate for the generous help you gave me during the building process, this is the latest recording of this small instrument by my friend, I hope you could enjoy it and I am still trying to optimize the instrument.

Best regards to you all,

Xiaohu

Thank you Samuel and JGB, here is another short video myself playing some chords with 8 foot closed pipe. https://youtube.com/shorts/zlfdRxzXUO8?si=rzKb_89IaLoCxoII

Zitat von SamES

Does the large double-bent pipe have enough space above the labium? The upper part of the organ is placed on top of the box with the blower, and the bottom seems to be just above the labium of the pipe. Thus, the pipe should be massively too low and sound bad. Greetings! Samuel

Thanks Samuel for your kind suggestion, it is indeed a problem but I manage to solve it.

I upload a short video of the chest organ at its present stage, I hope i could somehow finished in October.

https://youtube.com/shorts/_wfAlrEhlx4?feature=share

Thank you all for your kind surpport during the process, I really learnt a lot and enjoy it!

Best regards, Xiaohu

Hello dear organ friends, it is been a while to update my progress in organ building, cheers!

The "C-shaped" pipe is difficult to make and to make it sound nice, I will try it again using a different approach.

The leaking between the channels of windchest is indeed troublesome, i am still fixing this problem using glue bath.

I hope it can make sound in next month. Xiaohu

Dear Hausorgel friends，

Now is December, here are some updates of my project, thank you all for your kind support, hope it can be finished by next year!

Best regards, Xiaohu

Haven't been making updates for a while, here are some recent progress of the chest organ building, thank you all for your kind support during the process.

Best regards, Xiaohu

Ausgezeichnet！

Thank you Jens for your kind response, best regards, Xiaohu

One more question, what type of wood you use for the pipe?

Hi Jens, I understand how it works now, your approach is indeed very effective in making a slope, can make several front board simutanously, but a little drawback is without "two legs". Are there any difference in sound with or without the 'legs'? Thanks, Xiaohu

Hi Jens,

Is it possible to record a video to show how it works? I am also trying to figure out a way to work with the upper labia on the front board. Thanks, Xiaohu

Very impressive, huge project! looking forward to hear or to watch it plays.

Best regards, Xiaohu

Thanks Samuel, I am recently concentrate on the manual and start working on the bellow. Here are more photos of the manual, the sharp keys are made with the same wood and covered with a piece of cow bone. It is indeed looks better than excepted. Xiaohu

Hi Samuel, the sound of the laser cut pipe seems to be fine, I will find time to record and give the frequency spectrum if possible. the air block needs further modification, I will try a new disign later on.

Meanwhile，I would like to ask have you made any sound comparision with / without the glue coating on the pipe inside? I think surely the glue would make the inner surface very smooth, but it would spend a lot of glue as well!

Meanwhile, some update on the keyboard skin, it is indeed quite time comsuming on the manual.

Dear organ friends, some update on the organ pipes, I have made upto 20 pipes now, the small pipes on the right are the test pipes I made previously.

I also tried a new way of preparing the material for the pipes, is by laser cutting, I made one pipe and it sounds better than expected.

The upper labrium I made seperately by hand cutting and milling a small piece of plywood, to replace the glued triangles.

Looking forward to your comments, Best, Xiaohu

Thank you Samuel for the information. I am going to dedicate more efforts to make the keyboard as perfect as possible. I am planning to either use Teak wood with cow bone on top, or still using ebony with cow bone on top. boxwood is also not very expensive in China, probably I will try that also.

But right now, I think I am continue working on the wooden pipe and the windchest. Best regards, Xiaohu