[sdiy] One Octave Foot Pedal Project

[harrybissell]

Ahhh yes indeed... I was thinking about church organ (not combo :^)

H^) harry

WeAreAs1 at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 7/10/04 1:24:21 PM, harrybissell at prodigy.net writes:
>
> << You should see some good organist play with both feet...and
> really fast !!! >>
>
> Yes, it is impressive, but what people don't realize is that most organists
> are actually using their left hand to play all the fast bass lines.  The feet
> are just adding fatness and accent notes.  Jimmy Smith, Joey DiFrancesco,
> Chester Thompson (old Tower of Power)... those guys use their left hand for all
> that ripping walking bass stuff.  They can indeed do some impressive stuff with
> their feet, but they don't, for the most part, it's their fingers doing the
> walking.  That having been said, E. Power Biggs, the great pipe organ master,
> could play incredible stuff with his feet (listen to his Bach performances
> sometime -- it sounds like two great organists are playing at once).  This is no
> easy feat (ouch) on a pipe organ, since there is usually a very long and
> noticeable delay between the time of hitting the note and actually hearing it come
> from the pipes (especially on lower notes, just like with MIDI guitars, but not
> for the same reason).  You almost have to mentally "turn off" your ears while
> playing a pipe organ -- otherwise the latency will drive you nuts!  Hey, now
> there's a perfect application for a soft synth... a virtual pipe organ.  They
> could claim that the key to sound latency is simply just a part of the realistic
> psychological simulation of the pipe organ experience.
>
> Michael Bacich