I've always been fascinated with electronics. I like to fix things (but don't bring me your broken TV!), and have my advanced radio operators licence.
I like to collect rocks and fossils. I collect mostly Devonian fossils like bracheopods, corals and trilobites from the famous Arkona site....
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Like most people, I visit Facefook daily and share my daily activities that I think others might find interesting. Drop by see what I've been up to, and send me a friend request.
This is under construction, forever...
I made my first webpage in 1999, then did major rewrites in 2007 and 2012. Now, in 2025, I updated the hardware and am doing a complete rewrite.
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I've always had an interest in rocks and Fossils. I've been informally collecting rocks for years. Most of my collection I have gathered myself, having purchased only unusual or extremely interesting pieces. I like hand-size pieces and have made petrological (microscope) slides of the interesting ones.
I'm 74 years old (in 2025) and I am increasing aware of my aging decrepitude. So I decided to build this website as my personal legacy. Also, I'm bored, it gives me something to do.
I studied computer science in University (~1985). Of course, all the computer languages I learned (FORTRAN, COBOL, Lisp, Pascal and IBM-360 assembler) are long obsolete and forgotten. But good methodology doesn't change, so with some googling and Youtube, I figured out how to build my Webpage.
Over the years, I've learned a lot about building pipe organs. I'd like to pass on some of this experiance and share it. So I'll be leaving drawings, notes, plans and advice. Keep checking back, I intend to keep adding to the organology.
As an independant builder, back about 1988, this is the first organ I ever built. We made everything: the casework, wooden pipes, most of the metal pipes, bellows, console, pedalboard, windchests and keyboards.
Here, I explore various tonal ideas. Historical organ design of various countries: their pipes, scales, stoplist and voicing. We explore how pipes are constructed and voiced. Tonal regulation, and how to correct the design to suit the room and acoustics.