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Organ stops (Version 1.2 - October 2009)

This application provides all (I believe) pipe organ footages for manuals and pedals along with nearly 600 stop names for manuals and over 300 stop names for pedals. The stop name lists are by no means complete and I hope to add more as interest grows in the App and suggestions are made. Touching the stop knob plays a sound pitched at th ebottom C for the footage shown on the stop. To make this complete, I have added a 128' pedal "stop" - no such stop actually exists as a single rank but it is available when a 64' and a 42 2/3' are drawn together on those organs that have such stops. The fundamental frequency for bottom C on a 128' rank is 4 Hz (4 vibrations per second) and yes, you can actually hear this on an iPhone/iTouch speaker!

Spinning the selector to a footage reveals a list of stop names for that footage, and the selection of a name puts the name and footage on the stop graphic. In addition, there are some example snippets of organs music and a pipe footage calculator which takes as input the harmonic required and the footage of the fundamental component (or first harmonic).

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Frequently asked questions relating to my iPhone/iTouch applications are available where I shall endeavour to keep up with the questions that are asked.

NEXT UPDATE: None in the pipeline - no bugs reported.
* Collecting more stop names
* Looking into additional audio features.

 

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