1961TC4ME wrote:telemanr wrote:You are right Marc. I was completely forgetting that Sample sets aren’t recording the whole organ at once like an orchestral recording. Slaps head severely.
Ha! Go easy in yourself, I've done plenty of head slapping in this Hauptwerk adventure.
Just a question here that might have some relevance in all of this. How many families of pipes are there? At this late hour I can only think of three, or maybe better worded, how they sound. Flute based, reed based and mixture based?
Marc
I would say: families based on scaling;
-narrow scalings (celestes, gambas, etc.)
-regular normal scaling (principals, including quints, mixures, sesquialtera, etc.)
-wide scaling (flutes, nazard, tierces, cornets, etc.)
-long or full length reeds (trumpets, fagots, dulciaan, cromorne, schalmey, etc.)
-short reeds (regals, vox humanas, ranketts, etc.)
Then you could further subdivide according to:
-wooden vs. metal pipes, and metal pipes according to alloys as high lead content sounds different (more vocal) than high tin content (more instrumental)
-And reeds could be subdivided according to sound effect, whether they have more "oh" or more "eh" sound.
-And even whether they are placed vertically or horizontally.