If any instrument deserves to be geeked over, it is a pipe organ. Over the course of the roughly 2,000 years of development, it has developed from the rudimentary Greek water organ to a intensely complex device featured in cathedrals and concert halls all over the world. And this is all well as well as great, though what is an determined (or achieved organist to do when he wants to practice nonetheless doesn’t have entrance to the Saint-Germain l’Auxerrois in Paris? Well, he competence go forward as well as setup his own — at least that’s what an Engadget reader named Rob Stefanussen did. The heart of the thing is a Mac Pro running Hauptwerk’s Virtual Organ, as well as while a program is pretty considerable itself, what caught our courtesy was a antique MIDI controller he built to play a thing. Featuring four keyboards, the pedalboard, pistons, and countenance boots, this thing plays like a genuine trade. And not to be dismantled in a sound department, he threw in 6 speakers and the sub-woofer, routing different sets of pipes to the dissimilar speakers to let a tune brew in a air for which authentic siren organ tune. Wild, no? How would you like to hear it in action? Check out a video after a mangle to see (and listen to it for yourself.

Via Engadget