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 Some of the approximately 2000 barrels are located up in the stands at the back of Lomma church. The advanced control of the valves makes everything can be controlled from a touch screen that controls all the mechanics.
Monitoring and control units drawn from the industry are commonplace in the organs, as well as newly renovated old. But suing the organ and its thousands of pipes with cell phone, there has never been made, until now.
An attempt to sue the entire organ in Lomma with 2000 sounding pipes with a smart cell phone fell out well.
By extension, we are looking for a system that can monitor and control
equipment in many different contexts. A caretaker, for example,
maintain and control the entire building with a smartphone, says Jakob
Berglund of the small development company Relmtech in Malmo.
With the development of such remote maintenance and control system, organ builder, Sven-Olof Akerlund in Huddinge and German Beckhoff, which is a major supplier of automation products for industry. The organ builder from Huddersfield which has long had a proprietary control system that can be loaded and controlled remotely are interested in a "smart" system that makes it easier to maintain and tune organs. The other parties are mainly looking for a product that is viable on a larger commercial market than the churches and concert halls where there are organs. The "new" organ in the church in Lomma outside Malmo, inaugurated 2010th. A giant instrument with 2000 organ pipes and many other parts made in 1896 by the British firm Willis - a classic organ builder. It was purchased as a better second-hand from an English church.
As in many other newly manufactured and remanufactured organs have the
old craft of Lomma church spruced up with the latest electronics and
automation, among other manufacturing industries.
It has been built into PLCs, CPUs, ethernet connections, digital inputs and outputs along with special software directs and controls the registry boards, valves, pedals, various switches, keyboards and more. This has for centuries been governed and controlled by mechanics and pneumatics. The advanced electronics offers many new opportunities. In Lomma it is possible to have the keyboard and the entire gaming table at the front of the choir while the pipes are located up in the gallery at the back. Thanks to the electronic control system and 16-channel digital inputs and outputs have been successful getting the layout table to Lira together with pipes, despite the long distance between the parts. The man now running the demonstration and further development in Lomma is an Android app that can remotely control the computer and controls the organ. |
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