James Tibbles Photo: supplied
Photo: supplied
Associate Professor James Tibbles, renowned organist and historic keyboards expert, has been instrumental in creating a virtual organ for his students at the University of Auckland School of Music.
It's a first for the country and allows the students to access and produce the sounds of organs played by the master composers throughout Europe, without having to leave home.
He helped to select 16 real life organs from different centuries, with each pipe sampled multiple times. All up that's many thousands of pipes all up.
Lynn Freeman asked James Tibbles to describe how realistic a virtual organ looks.
