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where did those reed stops come from?Re: that wonderful pipe organ

🔗Jay Williams <jaywill@utah-inter.net>

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I was startled by those reed sounds in some of Stamm's pieces and couldn't
really convince myself that you could get that from just piling up a buncha
justly-tuned flu pipes. So I axed him and he said:
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ate: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 15:13:53 EST
>Subject: Re: that wonderful pipe organ

>Dear Jay, Thanks for your interest and compliment. The pipe sound of the
>enharmonic organ can be synchronized with a akai sampler, on which I have
>several other organ sounds and also reed stops, which can be tuned in the
>same tuning and combined with the live instrument. So, it is not a mixture
>sounding like a reed, but in fact a nice reed! Also the bass of the
>enharmonic organ, which is limited to F1 (midi number) is enlarged by sampler
>sounds. I compose my pieces at home with the Akai using a sequenzer program
>and two manuals with two tunings that differ a quarter tone one from the
>other. When a piece is finished, I am able to make the enharmonic organ play
>it via MIDI and decide, which sounds are added from the Akai It is impossible
>to play such pieces manually (the special manual is till now only suited for
>demonstration purposes and not for polyphonic playing).
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>Best regards for you and the whole group of microtonal composers
>
>Hans-Andr� Stamm
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