I have been a pipe organ builder in America for 32 years. Great job Lilly!!!

A bit of history. Those wide keys are actually historically accurate. The first organs actually deserving of the name had old-style mechanical spring-and-counterweight actions that required extra pressure to play the notes. The first organists for that type of instrument were called "organ pounders" because they had to pound on the stiff-action keys.

What a wonderful choice for a project. Not only are practical skills required, but there are many Physics and Music theory learning opportunities. I note that this work was completed over 3 years ago, so now expect a 32ft pipe sticking out of your roof in place of a chimney.

She's building a musical instrument while I mess up IKEA furniture. Great job!

You really put a lot of work in that organ. For a young girl, that's priceless. Not afraid of shop work and thinking for herself. I know how time-consuming organ building is. I built my own pipe organ years ago. Took about a year and that was with pipes salvaged from an old church organ. I built a small one with 2 ranks of pipes- 8ft Rohrflute 61 pipes and 4ft Principle 72 pipes which gave me the option to use the Principles in 2ft pitch. Had a beautiful tone. The pipes were originally used to support the singing of a 150 seat church, so they were LOUD in my house.

Amazing how a young girl can get so interested in pipe organs in times when everything is digital! Congrats and keep the enthusiasm!

I hope she got an A+ for that. I think she deserved it for all that work. It turned out well too.

My compliments! I just saw this video. I love how you went about designing the organ without getting hung up with the fine points of organ-building theory. If you ever want to pursue organ-building in a rigorous manner you absolutely must get the books: The Art of Organ Building by George Ashdown Audsley (Volumes I and II). Originally published in 1905 by Dover (New York), it has since been reprinted and published by Dover. The book is still the definitive work on organ-building, and requires no prior knowlege to understand. Audsley was an architect when he set about building a small organ. We had three daughters, and all studied music. However, none of them share my passion for BUILDING things, such as organs, and I was delighted to see that YOU did it.

First off:mind blown! Second: I so love that she (with help from an amazing dad) dove into such a challenging project with enthusiasm, a prerequisite for a career as an engineer, a musician or both, and third: that she did all that wearing girly clothes instead of overalls or shop jumpsuit LOL!!! WELL DONE young lady and your dad must be super proud of you! He obviously raised you to believe there is nothing you cannot do! You are a success now and in the future, no doubt.

My family have been working with pipe organs for about a hundred years, so I just have to say this is AWESOME!!!

this is incredible work and the detractors I think are completely missing the point of the craft involved in this endeavor, picking at adjustable details without considering the monumental effort that went involved to getting it to this AMAZING point. It's sad enough to go through life nitpicking in general but choosing to do it to someone who has obviously put in so much effort in a successful project just shows how out of touch they are. Instead of being negative on the internet, why don't you spend that time doing something constructive yourself and sharing it with the world? GREAT JOB! never let anyone hold you back!!!!! :)

Great, but the lengths of the pipes need to be exponential rather than linear. This is why the higher notes tend to sound flat. I would suggest tweaking the length of every pipe using a tuner.

That is terrific! I'm a classical organist in California and I am so very impressed. Congratulations!

You are a great dad to teach in such a practical way.

That must be the coolest project I have ever seen a kid create. Congratulations to her!

Loved this video. Having two musical daughters (now grown up) who liked building things, this took me back a bit...fantastic work by Lilly, and nice work on the recording of it too.

Congratulations Lilly and my highest praise to you. Building a working Organ from scratch is a daunting task for anyone. That you chose to do so and that you succeeded in making such, deserves nothing less than the highest accolades.

Paul.. Here from Canada, I can see your dedication and love for Lilly. She is lucky to have such a dedicated father! A beautiful example of determination, persistency, patience and love. Congrats!

48 year old guitar player here - this has inspired me to build something like this. Really loved how you built the valves yourself.

when the church won't let you practice for more than an hour at a time... so you build an organ yourself

A lot of impressive ingenuity went into this!

Great job Lily. A lot of original thinking went into this project, and it looks as though you had fun. Dave

Great job. She is going places.

I am very astonishing what she could do. She should become an organ builder. Wow. Love it.

Hey Paul, you can be proud of your daughter! Best greetings from Bachland (Deutschland)!

So love this! What fun- and wonderful of you to share!

Absolutely brilliant! Good to see practical skills making something from scratch.

Totally, utterly, Charming!!

Good stuff! I had a friend in college who built pipe organs in his tiny dorm room in Philadelphia. Once I went with him on a scavenging mission to get a keyboard across town. We got the keyboard and we carried it on to the streetcars and then on the subway too. Back then, the transit workers and police weren't quite so uptight about such strange things.

How talented! I love to see people make instruments from scratch!

I'm a professional harpsichord and piano builder. I've made 3 little portative hand pumped organs. They are almost as much work as a so how harpsichord! Wow what a girl! Keep up the good work!

1-25-2021 what an accomplishment for an 8th grader to learn about musicology and the physics of music-making. Am sure the creators and instructors will be proud of this accomplishment. I just noted this program for the Science and Music classes at the Cathedral School for Boys in San Francisco, CA USA.

Super awesome! I had some PVC pipes in lengths 1, 2 and 4, blew into them and showed my 8 year-old octaves... but this project goes waaaaaayyyyyyy beyond! I'm gonna show this vid to him.

Damn! As an organ enthusiast, I find this video very satisfying.

Congratulations to both father and daughter! Cool!

sooooooo cooool, seriously. Awesome work Lilly

Absolutely superb. Congratulations, Lilly!!

I don't know anything about pipe organs, music theory, or building. Great job both of you

Great job Lilly! You have a lot of tenacity.

This is amazing! It’s the perfect combination of engineering and music. love it

Oh, how utterly delightful!

Impressed by the hard work and final result. It shows a lot of creativity and joy. Bravo girl!

I like the product, but I'm FAR more happy at the relationship the two of you have. I hope my daughter and I can do such projects in future. Great job, the both of you!! Thanks for making and sharing the video!

This made me smile first thing in the morning! Thanks for sharing and what a fantastic job!

This is an incredible feat and it’s so happy to see you two do it together. You’re an awesome parent for providing the resources and time. Congratulations, how cool!

Very interesting and exciting to see this being built. The mind is a great thing when it is used productively. This was not a small undertaking either. I service and tune pipe organs, as well as electronic ones, so that makes this one even more exciting to me. One thing you could add to this would be a small tin or plastic sleeve around the end of each tube/pipe and use it for tuning each pipe. You may have to trim each one shorter, but it would be interesting for you to also see how to refine your great work a little more. GREAT JOB, Lilly!!!

How cool was that! Great job!👍

This is inspirational on many levels. Well done, Lilly. You are to be commended for your enthusiasm and dedication.

Great work glad to see more young people like me interested in pipe organs!

Really awesome....quite a duanting project

The keyboard is remarkably similar to the one I made for my "hammond" organ science project in hice kool. Abrasive wheel ground the tone wheels from steel discs, wound pick-up coils around magnets. Good job, you!

This is mind-blowingly awesome, Lilly! From a professional organist with a diploma in the craft. I am very impressed by your efforts!

Brilliant. Well done Lilly.

Very creative, imaginative and talented - congratulations Lilly!👏🏻👏🏻

Awesome job!!

Outstanding young lady and organ build!!!

Awesome creation. I took the liberty of correcting the lenghts of your pipe if you want to stay in tune with other instruments. Note A3: 220Hz, 720mm; Note A#3: 233Hz, 680mm; Note B3: 247Hz, 641mm; Note C4: 262Hz, 605mm; Note C#4: 277Hz, 571mm; Note D4: 294Hz, 539mm; Note D#4: 311Hz, 509mm; Note E4: 330Hz, 481mm; Note F4: 349Hz, 454mm; Note F#4: 370Hz, 428mm; Note G4: 392Hz, 404mm; Note G#4: 415Hz, 381mm; Note A4: 440Hz, 360mm; Note A#4: 466Hz, 340mm; Note B4: 494Hz, 321mm; Note C5: 523Hz, 303mm; Note C#5: 554Hz, 286mm; Note D5: 587Hz, 270mm; Note D#5: 622Hz, 255mm; Note E5: 659Hz, 240mm; Note F5: 698Hz, 227mm; Note F#5: 740Hz, 214mm; Note G5: 784Hz, 202mm; Note G#5: 831Hz, 191mm; Note A5: 880Hz, 180mm; Note A#5: 932Hz, 170mm; Note B5: 988Hz, 160mm; Note C6: 1047Hz, 151mm; Note C#6: 1109Hz, 143mm; Note D6: 1175Hz, 135mm; Note D#6: 1245Hz, 127mm; Note E6: 1319Hz, 120mm; Note F6: 1397Hz, 113mm; Note F#6: 1480Hz, 107mm; Note G6: 1568Hz, 101mm; Note G#6: 1661Hz, 95mm;

Very impressive project!

wow that is amazing, you must be so proud of your daughter, what a fantastic job. You have great ingenuity and vision to be able to solve some of the problems you faced and come up with the design from scratch. You have a great future ahead of you.

Wow! What a great project! Congratulations.

Amazing. So nice to see the effort and commitment.

Very inventive. I would have been thrilled! :-)

Nice job Lilly!! Now that you know the basics, you should go help the crew at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ in the U.S. restoring the world's largest pipe organ, the mighty Midmer-Losh Opus 5550! Now *THAT'S* a project!😁👍🎵🎶🎵

Brilliant work and what a great project to do! Congratulations.

Congrats! What a great job!

Very impressive! Congratulations on this very challenging project.

Super rad project, well done!!

Awesome! Great job, Lilly!

Lilly Great job! Cool project

Wow , you are so talented. Incredible. Well done .

It's so great to see that thse days stil there are younsters that dive in to stuff the hard way and create themselve a skillset that the smartphone generation hardly possesses.

Wow! I am an avid organist. I love this video! As much as I love organs, I’ve never even thought about making my own! This is my new project for the 2021 year! Thanks for this video and congrats on your organ!

Bravissima. Sono un appassionato di organi a canne e avrei sempre voluto costruirne uno come hai fatto tu!!! Yeah

Really awesome work!

very cool. you now know how value is made of raw materials. nice job!

Organist here -- I'm pretty impressed by your work and your interest for the subject! I wish we would have done something like this in school here in Germany... Congrats and Hats off! for the outcome of this cool project.

Totally awesome!!! So great when you made that first chord!!! Great job

Excellent creation!-John in Texas

Excellent job, thank you for showing how pipe organs are made! ❤

Great work and I guess she lerned a lot during the process. Very well done

That was a year 8 project? Girl is literally soaring!

Where were girls like this when I was her age?!? All the girls I knew I'm sure had never held a saw in their life, let alone calculated the approximate lengths of pipe required to make a diatonic scale! Actually, that goes for the guys too... Anyway, I'm glad being a nerd is cool now 😎 Great job!

Great Job! I am currently attempting a project like yours. The pipes sound Great!

wonderful! Such good work. You did a fine job.

How awesome. Great job, Lily

Beautiful job. This made me happy to see.

Fabulous! Great project. Good work.

Wow that is just amazing. Great stuff

Fantastic team! Congrats!

Very good job! I am an italian organ builder working in Barcelona. Congratulation!

Absolutely brilliant effort! Fantastic skills. (Music Teacher in UK)

A most impressive build Lilly!

Awesome job! That project must have been so much fun. Congrats!

Fantastic work. Well done!

Great Lily! Great build and great sound! Inspires me to get making again. :)

Very nice work on this

Amazing work! Good Job!❤️

im happy to see that there are girls who are really enthusiastic about building stuff and working with tools

You make the World to a better place!

This girl really knows how to manipulate with organ. That's really exciting!