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1718.0. "MIDIed Pipe Organ at U of PA" by AQUA::ROST (Canned ham, that's for me) Tue Oct 11 1988 22:12

    Please excuse this if it belongs in another topic, but I did a
    directory of "organ" and found nothing too suitable.
    
    It came in on USENET. This certainly sounds interesting.
    
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
Path: decwrl!labrea!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!eniac.seas.upenn.edu!adlerm
Subject: Re: Does this device exist?
Posted: 10 Oct 88 20:26:30 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
 
This device exists:  CODI, the Curtis Organ Digital Interface
 
     The University of Pennsylvania is home to the 161 rank Curtis Organ 
which contains 10,791 individual speaking pipes.  The instrument is 
vintage 1926 and works on an electro-pneumatic action. 
 
     Each of the four manuals, the pedals, five independent swell shades,
and all registration is now MIDI interfaced by an exclusive system
developed here called CODI.   As the organist plays,
his actions are sent out over MIDI.  As MIDI data is received, as
from a sequencer, the performance is recreated exactly.
 
    Now the arm-chair quaterbacks of organ music can have their way
by replaying a piece by a skilled musician while setting their own
registration.  The original performer won't even comment on it.  :-)
 
    By the way, we're currently using a Mac SE running the Performer
software as our sequencer.  I'm looking forward to seeing the famed
Finale program do a little real-time, four manual, music transcription.
 
     If you would like to know more about the system, the organ, or what
we are doing with the whole thing, please let me know and I'll respond
individually.
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Michael A. Adler              [email protected]
			      
P.S.   We have just released an all digital CD recording of classical
	music performed on the Curtis Organ.  To bad we didn't have
	CODI operational during the recording sessions to include the
	MIDI data on the CD.   
 
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    wow! Impressive. Just think of all that velocity and
    aftertouch information that has to be ignored!
    
    neat.
    
    rknron is back.
    
    hi!
    

    Roll Over Vierne and Widor, I got a pile of sequences I'd just LOVE
    to run through that best.
    
    
    hmmm I think I'll start with Durufle's Toccata in B...
    
    dp