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Dad had a collection of "fake books." Remember those? What he
would do is flip through the pages to find song titles he'd like
and then play those.
Basically what I do except I *can* read music.

I've always wanted a Flentrop pipe organ so I could play Bach and
Handel properly.
Get a harpsichord. More practical for home use playing classical
acoustic music.


Here's an interesting video:

http://tinyurl.com/2tq26c

Delivery schedule must be a bitch.

Eisboch
I tried a harpsichord one, and didn't like it. It didn't like me,
either.

It's a pipe organ I want.
I was just viewing a website about an hour ago about a guy that
developed an accessory box for Hammond drawbar organs. The box
allowed the drawbar settings on the organ to be processed as stops
for pipes generated within his product. There's a video of him
demonstrating it on a Hammond XK3 (the predecessor to the one I am
getting) and it sounds absolutely fantastic. Not a Hammond sound at
all .... apparently the box generates it's own tones .... but uses
the Hammond's drawbar stops. I'll look for the website again and
pass it on if I can find it.

Eisboch

I've got a big room in the house with a 20' peaked ceiling...
Unfortunately, it is our family room, and I doubt my wife would turn
it over to me to house a pipe organ.

In that case, you need to buy the George Eastman House, which already
has a pipe organ. Sometimes the simplest solution is the best.



I have a friend in Great Falls, VA, who built a special "rec room" to
house his pipe organ. It is totally separate from the house, looks like
a barn, but is built of brick, with gorgeous wood beams. Several
weddings have been held there.


That is what you need to do, you would love it