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Tonewheels Warble in This Organ-Inspired Musical Instrument

Posted on February 11, 2021 by Dan Maloney

Younger readers may not recall the days when every mall had a music store — not the kind where tapes and LPs were sold, but the kind where you could buy instruments. These places inevitably had an employee belting out …read more

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Giving MIDI Organs MIDI Drawbars

Posted on April 16, 2019 by Brian Benchoff

This goes back to Bach: if you want to change the sound an organ makes, you have to pull on some drawbars. This design didn’t change for 300 years, and in the 20th century with the advent of ‘tonewheel’ organs, you still had small bars to pull to change what …read more

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