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Linux PCs Drive 74-Channel Pipe Organ
cyberman11 writes "According to the EE Times, Marshall & Ogletree LLC have created an electronic simulation of a classic Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ in the Trinity Church situated, just 600 feet from ground zero near the World Trade Center site in New York. The system consists of 10 Linux PCs that drive 74 Carver amplifiers and 74 Definitive Technology speakers, for a total of 15,000 watts."
If you need 10 boxen to drive 74 things.
Linux: Perfect for playing with your organ
reminds me of my friend who wanted to put a fork in a blender. he did this by connecting the blender to a serial cable wired to the various speeds, and then wrote a simple linux driver to control it. had his sister ssh into his box while he wasnt in the room, and boom.....buh bye to the fork. i would post a picture of the setup on my webserver, but at the offchange it gets /.ed, i will refrain. i dont think my roommates would like me killing their internet, and it would be hard to explain...
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Didn't like the BSD logo
A local church built a new sanctuary. They moved their very fine old pipe organ from to the new sanctuary.
It was an intricate task that was completed successfully. The local news heralded, . . . "St. Paul Completes Organ Transplant."
Is this thing on sourceforge yet? freshmeat? Or is it just a scheme to lur geeks to church?
"It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." - Anton LaVey
You're only saying that because your LIMP WRISTED stereo probably doesn't do much more than 1000 Watts max. Fuck, my car stereo is 5000 watts alone, and kicks ass. You also probably drive a Honda, rather than a Lexus, like me. Wimp.
Whoever moderated my post down is ALSO a limp wristed loser who probably drives a Toyota. Don't like it? BITE ME!
put it in a car and when the kid next to me decides he has to have his ghetto rap turned all the way up for the benefit and enjoyment of everyone in the general area . . .
* B O O M *
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heh heh heh
Blender is open source, so if your friend wants a fork in it all he has to do is download the code and write it himself.
SCO will tell them to change their tune if they complain about license fees :)
Drill baby drill - on Mars
All what I need to do now is brew some napalm ( easy ), crank up the Wagner, put on some combat boots and a silly hat, and turn their front yard into a beachhead.
For those who don't get it, see Apocalypse Now.
PC moderators can suck my White pierced, tattooed dick. If you think pride == hate, s/dick/Aryan meat mallet/g.
Since it has speakers rather than pipes, if you had a lot of them, would you have a Beowoofer cluster?
Yes but this is *pipe organ* they're trying to model, not a mini hifi system. It does take a lot of power to create truly impressive SPL.
Of course watts in consumer electronics is quite another thing, it's even more useless than MHz.
Have you read the fine print on a pair of PC speakers? "60W PMPO, 0.5W RMS" nice...
have so many children ?
Because his organ had no stops...
(Btw, thanks for the technical info !)
I agree in spirit, but I defy you to make a quiet 15000W system. I bet you can't even burn all that power on a resistor quietly!
i wanna know if the volume goes up to "11"
Everybody denies I am a genius--but nobody ever called me one!
...a Beowulf Cluster of pipe organs playing Beowulf.