Hauptwerk Pipe Organ Project

Category: Getting the parts

  • My Swell Shoes Are Here!!!!

    My Swell Shoes Are Here!!!!

    FINALLY!!! I’ve ONLY been waiting for them for like…ever! Found this at the door when I came home today!! Aaand here are the contents! To be honest, I haven’t the faintest idea about how to make this work… But rest assured, it’ll happen!!! Just not sure when haha!!

  • Swell Shoes Purchased

    Swell & Crescendo Shoes. (Aka volume pedals). With contact rollers. $25 for the pair +$8 shipping. Not bad… Even if I were to fail utterly and completely at attempting to make them work, don’t think it would be too much of a loss. Mr. Randy Newman says he’ll ship them out tomorrow. I should be…

  • Swell Shoe Cables Arrived

    Swell Shoe Cables Arrived

    SO EXCITED!!!! Mr. Max Mayse helped me make the cables I need to complete the 2 swell shoes I’m still purchasing, AND I JUST GOT THEM!! That’s the end of this update. 🙂 short but sweet. Also if you want to help, please consider visiting http://igg.me/at/buildahauptwerkorgan as well as sharing my overflowing excitement for this…

  • Swell Shoes: Making vs Buying

    Swell Shoes: Making vs Buying

    Organ Swell shoes. Aka expression pedals; or what guitarists call volume pedals. I’ve been using this Korg nanoKontrol USB Controller for hardware I don’t currently have. That includes swells, toe Pistons, general Pistons etc. Let’s just say there’s a reason why swell shoes are over the pedals. MAKING: Cost: $75 for 2 shoes PROS: -you…

  • Support my Hauptwerk Project

    Support my Hauptwerk Project

    Update 2016: The indiegogo campaign that was started when I FIRST started this project is unfortunately over. I am very grateful for everyone who’s shown me support. Words of encouragement go a long way! If you’d like to give a little token of support in the mean time, please feel free to Venmo me @Angelina-Angie-Oh! Much…

  • MIDI Encoder arrived!!! (Pedal Board & Swell MIDI encoder from DTS)

    MIDI Encoder arrived!!! (Pedal Board & Swell MIDI encoder from DTS)

    JUST came in the mail!! Literally. Inside a cute little box from USPS, the encoder is wrapped in cute pink bubble wrap!! Now I gotta decipher these instructions, and wait for Mr. Max Mayse’s package 🙂 It’s all coming together!!

  • Second Trip to Ikea, Console coming along!!

    Second Trip to Ikea, Console coming along!!

    THIS IS NOT THE FINAL PRODUCT: Just to give you an idea of how my Hauptwerk will be set up. So last week, I made a trip to the IKEA in Hicksville, Long Island after getting my pedalboard and organ bench in Mineola, Long Island. Time was tight and Hicksville IKEA was closer than Brooklyn.…

  • JUST BOUGHT THE MIDI ENCODER!! (Pedal and Swell Shoe Midi Encoder)

    JUST BOUGHT THE MIDI ENCODER!! (Pedal and Swell Shoe Midi Encoder)

    ANOTHER STEP CLOSER TO GETTING THE PEDALBOARD WIRED UP!! So since I started this blog, Mr. Max Mayse, (who found me through one if the posts here on this blog) offered to help me with the logistics of the pedal wiring I was going to undertake and even offered to send me some cables and…

  • Pedalboard safe in my room! Also… A short intro to how organ pedalboards work…

    Pedalboard safe in my room! Also… A short intro to how organ pedalboards work…

    Weather forecast for today was actually quite horrible. Lucky for me, I was either ahead of the storm, or it went ahead. Either way, missed me when we were moving the pedalboard into the SUV in Long Island, when we were moving things into the SUV from Ikea, and when we were moving things into…

  • Console shopping at ikea

    Console shopping at ikea

    So from picking up the pedalboard, we went straight to ikea to get a Galant desk 63″ and other small things. Here is Marvin surfing an ikea cart Unfortunately, they ran out of the Galant desk I needed, in all available colors… We have to come back Saturday 😦 BUT!! I got a $1 frozen…

  • MY FIRST PEDALBOARD!!!

    MY FIRST PEDALBOARD!!!

    OMG!! I have in my possession, an AGO 32 note pedalboard!!! Thanks to a very very nice and resourceful person and Mr. Marvelous Marvin, I am now on my way to Ikea, Hicksville, NY with a pedalboard in the back and a bench!!!!! The pedalboard and bench at the back of Marvin’s SUV. I’m so…

  • To Hicksville I go… (Organ shopping)

    To Hicksville I go… (Organ shopping)

    So, by the time August 1 came along, I was already pretty set on building my own Hauptwerk. But at the advice of a good friend, I decided that I would keep the appointment I had with the dude, Brian and his mom the organist, in Hicksville, Long Island. Plus, I had already bought the…