Size and Sound back -(drifting toward organ pipes)

[conrad hoffsommer]

Ric Or-Gan,

>	Also I would like to know about the construction and tonality of organ
>pipes.  Is there a book about this that would answer such questions as,
>how is diameter related to length, does the fundamental sound diff in a
>16' pipe rather than a stopped 8', and explanations of tone production of
>flue and reed pipes and effects of shape other than diameter etc... 

For starters on construction and tone---
 
Try:

The Art of Organ Building (2 volumnes)
George Ashdown Audsley 
Dover (reprint of 1905 tomes)

ISBN 0-486-21314-5  (1st vol)     0-486-21315-3 (2nd Vol)
Lib Cong 64-18839/MN (both)

Have you lurked on the pipe organ list, yet?? This thread looks headed that
way...

Conradwhojustspentthreehoursregulatingatrackerorgan

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