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Weight Of Organ Pipes
Q. I am a structural engineer and have been asked to advise on the restoration of choir loft, which will involve raising the organ pipes off the floor & onto a platform over the choir stars. I have no idea however, what the pipes weigh. Apparently there are 6000 of them in total, of varying sizes.
Can anyone help or advise?
- London, United Kingdom
2002
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2002 A. Malcolm,  Freeman Newton [deceased] R.I.P. old friend (It is our sad duty to advise that Freeman passed away 4/21/12) A. Just a suggestion, but but an organ manufacturer could help?  Marc Green anodizer - Boise, Idaho 2002 A. You could measure them (length, diameter, wall thickness) and calculate weight from that. With 6000 pipes, you'd probably want to do some estimating in groups of similar sized pipes to reduce the time taken to measure.  Bill Reynolds [deceased] consultant metallurgist - Ballarat, Victoria, Australia We sadly relate the news that Bill passed away on Jan. 29, 2010. 2002 A. The way to do this is to find out what the material is that the organ pipes are made of. Take care with this step because the pipes of different sizes will probably be of different materials. I have seen an organ with wood, brass and lead pipes all in the same instrument. - Elhorn, Wisconsin 2002 |
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A. That was a damn good response from Marc Green's dawg! A crittur of intelligence, I'd say. Sure needs some app(l)aws from us disadvantaged guys who are without dawgs.
Freeman Newton [deceased]
(It is our sad duty to advise that Freeman passed away
April 21, 2012. R.I.P. old friend).
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Marc, Marc, Marc. Hey that sounds just like a dog with a cleft palate. - Elkhorn, Wisconsin 2002 2002 Ahhhh.. I was wondering how long it would take our resident Canadian to start talking about hockey ... sigh .. it's too bad that in a few years or so, the NHL teams in Canada will eventually fold (even hockey players won't play for 60 cents on the dollar). And.. we'll seeya in 2006, Freeman.. be ready! Marc Green anodizer - Boise, Idaho (We'll get even in 2006) |
Thanks for all your replies, even the unnecessary ones. I asked this site because my search engine found it when I raised the query. Although perfectly able and adept at calculating the weights of many things (I even know all the formulae), the organ is 600 miles from where I am and until its stripped down the pipes are inaccessible to take a representative sample.
I just thought someone might know, or know how to find out. Hope you all find something better to do than answering queries from engineers. If you didn't like the question why bother to answer.
- UK
2002
Sorry, Malcolm! We certainly don't run this site for the purpose of offending people :-( Apologies!
I've asked Freeman to not chase visitors away with "Why did you come to this site?" -- but he is a loveable character, as you'll see if you stick around, and that just seems to be his style of introducing himself on a lot of threads :-)
The site is attended by a "community of characters" who each contribute their unique personality, inseparable from the priceless experience & technical knowledge they offer free of charge on thousands of threads ... and often we learn something quite interesting, like that entry about the Redundant Organ Rehousing company :-)
But this site focuses mostly on metal finishing, whether the object to be finished be organ pipes or anything else. So you submitted an inquiry, and we published it, and hoped for the best -- but this site focuses on metal finishing so our cast of characters and their field of expertise is sometimes of limited help when the subject is something else :-)
Thanks for the interesting inquiry, and apologies again!
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