| Bruce Miles welcomes you to his |
| Home Page from near YORK, England. |
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
(but working on it !)
(but working on it !)
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Welcome to my home site.Organs and organ music of many kinds are the main theme of the site. |
| Bruce Miles welcomes you to his |
| Home Page from near YORK, England. |
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Welcome to my home site.Organs and organ music of many kinds are the main theme of the site. |
'English Organ' music. Clip 1. Clip 2. Clip 3. |
On the Soundfonts page there are two sets of pipe organ sound samples in Soundfont (.sf2) format which you can download and play on your home computer. 'The English Organ' represents a 'straight' or Classical organ of up to about 50 stops with decidedly un-baroque tendencies. The other Soundfonts emulate the sounds of a Compton or Wurlitzer theatre organ. The sounds (with one or two exceptions) are generated in software and are not real samples You can judge the quality of the samples by clicking on the adjacent 'Clip' links. For clarity, play these back with little or no added reverb as some is included in the recordings. You can listen to some individual sounds in detail on the new Organ Sounds page, at present incomplete and under construction. Comments (constructive, please) will be very welcome. Link to the Soundfonts page | 'Cinema Organ' music. Clip 1. Clip 2. Clip 3. |
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The Midi Consoles page features two important 'CONSOLE' programmes,
jOrgan and Miditzer. These emulate the organ console and provide the relays which control
the sounds heard as different stops and controls are used and keys are pressed. They can both be operated
on-screen and from a separate MIDI-equipped keyboard or console.
jOrgan, by Sven Meier can be configured to emulate any size and type of classical or theatre pipe organ. Miditzer by Jim Henry needs very little setting up and accurately emulates two types of Wurlitzer Theatre Organ.
The Utilities Page describes and links to download sites for programmes relevant to the soundfonts. These include an English version of 'Klangsynth', which I used to generate most of the underlying audio samples. Here are some photographs of organ consoles and brief details of a typical Compton cinema organ of the 1930s. Link to the Consoles page. The organ I play regularly on Sunday mornings is described on the St. John's page Although small it can give a very good account of itself, as the programme of a recital given by Dr Francis Jackson will testify. To e-mail me please see the Mail page Copyright. To the best of my knowledge all the music (ie the tunes) used on this site is in the Public Domain and not subject to copyright licensing. |