Monday, February 20, 2006

Pipe organ FAQ

1. The longest Pipe ever is 128 foot long, you cant hear the note it produces
2. You would normally get 72 keys on a keyboard and 12 on the foot peddles
3.There can be over 3000 pipes per pipe organ
4.If you arranged all the pipes from 3 pipe organs in a line they would stretch from here to Monahan (Ireland) , THE LONG WAY AROUND
5.Be careful when using the term “pipe organ” in Arab states; it may be an awe-inspiring phrase in the West but in local Persian “Pipe Organ” translates as “Your Mother wears the Shoes of wounded Dog”
6.My old boss were so tight he would piss in a bottle rather than take 2 minutes to use the toilet
7.If you open some of the motors in Leeds Grammar Schools pipe organ you will see the above referred to as “A Twat”
8.The famous Magritte painting is in fact the introductory illustration to a 1917 children’s guide to Pipe Organs. The right hand portion with the missing “Organ” and page number 5 have been lost in time
9.The Japanese have invented a TOTALLY flat Pipe organ that you can fold and carry
10.Apple are working on a version of the above only you cant change the pipes, it has less keys but it looks so good you want to lick it
11.Cary Grant, Rock Hudson and James Whale were all big fans of Pipe Organs, John Wayne, however, was not.

2 comments:

ceci n'est pas said...

wow...i love it. did you ever stick your head over one of the pipes when it went off, and got a face full of dust?

nospooner said...

that would be tuning, no i only got to the point were i pressed the keys in a certain order; however once it did take 2 people to remove me when i was elctricfying an organ in wibledon