Me with my wife Patty on the beach at Cleethorpes.

Hello I'm Phil - a middle aged Sheffield bloke with a thing for street organs.
I have never had the money to buy and maintain a real pipe organ, so I designed and made
my own little electro-pneumatic one powered by an old Hoover! (listen to the sound files below).
To cut a long story short, I designed and made everything, including the chests, motors (bellows) and all the pipes.
There are 37 stopped wooden pipes (1 rank, 3 octaves) and it is played by midi files via a midi controller.
I didn't have any plans or instructions. I just used the experience I gained some years ago
when I helped to install, maintain and tune a large theatre organ here in Sheffield.

It consists of 2 small chests (main chest on the left, bass chest on the right).
I purposely designed it so it would take up as little space as possible (the main
chest has only a 15" x 9" footprint, the bass chest has just a 10" x 6" footprint).

The chests, pipes and electrics sit side by side in one of our kichen cupboards!
The whole thing takes up very little space, with the added bonus that I can
open and close the cupboard door to regulate the volume! *arf! arf!*

If you haven't done so already, you can listen to it by selecting the tunes below.
You're welcome to with any questions, thoughts etc.

Phanks!..... Phil


Patty's Miniature World (my wife's homepage).

The Penistone Cinema Organ Trust was founded by our good friend Kevin Grunill in 1999.

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