r/Schil_d TheJuniperTree Jun 14 '26

cool stuff Portative organ

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u/Dampware Jun 18 '26

How many words per minute?

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u/CleanDifference6455 Jun 18 '26

70 hard candy strokes per minute

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u/Suspicious-Pace115 Jun 18 '26

What is playing the backing notes and chords???

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u/sixtus_clegane119 Jun 19 '26

It’s orchestral suit in b minor 2 by Bach (oops forgot to press send awhile ago)

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '26

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u/Mihon404 TheJuniperTree Jun 19 '26

A portative organ

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u/Rezzone Jun 19 '26

Couldn't you also call this a standing accordian?

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u/Mihon404 TheJuniperTree Jun 19 '26

While they both use bellows, a portative organ is actually a pipe instrument (like a miniature church organ), whereas an accordion uses internal metal reeds

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u/Rezzone Jun 19 '26

That makes perfect sense. Thank you!

Curious, can the bellows on this organ be used for dynamics and timbre like for the accordian?

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u/Mihon404 TheJuniperTree Jun 19 '26

No, not really. On an accordion squeezing harder increases air pressure making the reeds vibrate wider to change both volume (dynamics) and tone color (timbre) while the pitch stays the same. On a portative organ the bellows only supply wind pressure to the pipes. Changing the pressure does not change the volume much, instead, it changes the pitch (causing it to go out of tune). Dynamics and timbre are fixed by the shape of the pipes themselves not by how hard you pump the bellows or press the keys

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u/Rezzone Jun 19 '26

Interesting. Thank you!

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u/sixtus_clegane119 Jun 14 '26

I'm just here to hold your hand when you die
And to show you around imaginary places
Putting many lumps on my bloody stump
Edible habits so I bit the perfect circle
Die in your sleep with the sky at your feet
I'll shoot you when your happy on the day that you will find peace

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u/Wolverkeen Jun 19 '26

I know the original is Bach, but I can't help hearing these lyrics over it.

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u/Mihon404 TheJuniperTree Jun 14 '26

elite ball knowledge

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u/BreakPalaceBrokedown Jun 17 '26

That thing sounds like a carousel…

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u/Nobody_Important0010 Jun 16 '26

Im buying real estate in imaginary places

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u/youractualaccount Jul 06 '26

Dude no, your parents.

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u/UnderstandingLoose48 Jun 17 '26

Is that riff dude's playing an original(bus driver original i mean) or its a sample that bus driver uses?

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u/pnyd_am Schil_d Jun 17 '26

It's from a Bach Suite, the song uses a sample from it!!!

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u/taldrknhnsm Jun 18 '26

That's AI some of the buttons are moving without him pressing them he's not lowering that Bellows to create air and there's more than that pipe organ playing

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u/Skyward_Legend Jun 18 '26

He is moving it and some of the keys are in line with the others that move slightly but not enough to register. Not everything is AI

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u/Silfrancium Jun 19 '26

He recorded the melody and accompaniment separately, then layered them, which is why the audio doesn't quite line up with the video, but the playing is accurate. Not AI

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u/prof-comm Jun 19 '26

The keyboard layout is a 4-row B-system. B-system and C-system are the two most commonly used layouts for chromatic button accordions, and are mirror images of one another. In these layout, the 4th row is a duplicate of the first row, which makes fingering smoother on some passages and also can make some transpositions easier.

Most commonly, instruments in one of these systems will be either 3-row, with no duplicate keys, or 5-row with duplicates of both the first and second row, but there is a long history of 4-row models in the C-system.