Portativ Organ Project
What is a Portativ Organ My love and fascination with pipe organs began at a very young age (like before I can even remember). When I started participating in the SCA (long, long age... in a galaxy far, far away), it was great that my passion for pipe organs was most definitely "period". However... the standard pipe organ is NOT a very portable instrument. All of my music training and lessons was for keyboard instruments... and basically none of the period keyboard instruments are very portable (organ, clavichord, harpsichord, etc). Until I started finding paintings and drawings of "laptop" pipe organs in period manuscripts and research. I had stumbled on the "portativ organ" (portable organ). From that moment on... I wanted one. A Bit of History About Pipe Organs Without diving into too much documentation... the origins of the pipe organ date back thousands of years. The origins of the pipe organ can be traced back to the hydraulis in Ancient G...