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Post by ninworks on Feb 27, 2020 16:45:03 GMT -5
I have always had a thing about cathedral-sized pipe organs. Talk about BIG!! The cathedrals add almost as much to the sound as the organs themselves. Here's a good one.
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Post by gbfun on Feb 27, 2020 19:00:35 GMT -5
Holy heck ! That's quite amazing. That's bigger than any house in my neighborhood ! And organ gets my vote over banjos and bagpipes any day ! But an organ is clearly not portable. I have some half-ass organ sounds in the GR1 synth though. It's portable, but 3rd rate. But maybe someone could "sample" the whole organ like they do with the guitar amp sampling equipment ? Could carry the whole organ in a gig bag !
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Post by gbfun on Feb 27, 2020 19:03:55 GMT -5
I want to play it. Please ? I'll be careful. Uh..you might want to vacate the building first....
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Post by jeffscott on Feb 27, 2020 23:06:35 GMT -5
But an organ is clearly not portable.
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Post by jeffscott on Feb 27, 2020 23:12:44 GMT -5
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Post by gbfun on Mar 1, 2020 0:01:16 GMT -5
Ha. That organ might be portable but looks like it couldn't hit any note below high C above high C above high C....lol
A piccolo organ !
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Post by HenryJ on Mar 1, 2020 8:26:39 GMT -5
My wife and I vacationed in NYC three years in a row. One summer we attended church at St. Patrick's Cathedral, which is near our hotel. The first time there was no choir, so the next time we went, it was later in the year when the choir was in the loft.
Being back-row Baptists, we were closer to the organ pipes than we were to the choir, which I don't think went into the PA system. The mighty organ pipes drowned out the choir.
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Post by jeffscott on Mar 3, 2020 20:57:59 GMT -5
...The mighty organ pipes drowned out the choir. As well, it should!
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Post by guildx700 on Mar 4, 2020 1:10:22 GMT -5
They can be stunning sounding, I especially like the low notes they hit.
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Post by jazzguy on Mar 4, 2020 1:17:02 GMT -5
the only thing I like more than a Hammond B-3 and Leslie speaker is it's way big brother....
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Post by Ragic on Mar 5, 2020 23:51:27 GMT -5
Wurlitzer organs were manufactured in my hometown! North Tonawanda, NY. The factory is still there. It's now a Candy and ice cream shop, and event center. It's also where one of our classic car cruise nights is held. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurlitzer
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Post by rok-a-bill-e on Mar 6, 2020 19:33:44 GMT -5
The only good thing about compulsory chapel attendance when a student at Belmont during the 70s was their amazing pipe organ, and a woman from the music dept. who liked playing these amazing Bach fugues on it before the boring sermon began.
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Post by Tall-Fir on Mar 27, 2020 18:40:51 GMT -5
Visited the Mormon Campus in Salt Lake City a number of years ago. Took the tour. Their pipe organ is wonderful, should have taken a photo of it.
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Post by windmill on Mar 27, 2020 19:51:05 GMT -5
like a bit of teh old pipe organ
Down in the big smoke the symphony orchestra plays concerts in the town hall a few times a year.
I discovered that if you get there early there is always a half hour recital on the big pipe organ in the hall.
I always get there early to have a listen.
What I know now, after attending a few of these, is that there is "modern" organ compositions,in the sense of modern orchestral music.
Some of that is really worth listening to.
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Post by Laker on Mar 27, 2020 23:50:07 GMT -5
A local guy built a restaurant around a pipe organ. The restaurant has been closed for many years but I believe the organ is still in the building. Castle North
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Post by jazzguy on Mar 28, 2020 0:38:35 GMT -5
we have a pretty amazing one here in town
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Post by LTB on Mar 29, 2020 13:04:09 GMT -5
we have a pretty amazing one here in town Incredible! We have a large one at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas but this one appears to dwarf it! I enjoyed seeing the internals of this great organ and the explaination of how it works. That is so cool! Thanks
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Post by jarvis on Mar 30, 2020 9:21:11 GMT -5
I'm an old guy. When I was a kid, I took years of piano lessons from a church organist, and when I was in high school, he finally started giving me pipe organ lessons. A friend/relative of the family was the organist at the First Baptist church in our town, and he gave me a key to the church (!) and I used to practice on the three-manual First Baptist pipe organ after school. What a gas! My legs were too long to play the pedals correctly and I kept banging my knees, so I never became much of a pipe organ player, but at least I learned a lot about proper playing technique and how the organ works, etc. I remember I couldn't resist banging out my versions of the Bach Toccata and Fugue in Dm and the Widor Toccata in F in that big old empty church.
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Post by Vibroluxer on Jun 11, 2020 0:43:26 GMT -5
Thats where the saying "pull out all the stops" originates.
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Post by Blacksunshine on Jun 20, 2020 18:10:21 GMT -5
we have a pretty amazing one here in town Interesting! Thanks for the link. Almost 29,000 pipes, holy cow......
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Post by rickyguitar on Jun 22, 2020 1:47:00 GMT -5
Makes me think of the Mothers of Invention playing the Rotsl Albert Hall. Frank has Don Preston, I think start Louie Louie on the pipe organ with the warning you wont he able to hear it once we turn the amplifiers up, he was right. What was that, Burnt Weenie Sandwich? Yeah pipe organs are fabulous.
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Post by jeffscott on Oct 2, 2020 13:20:33 GMT -5
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Post by jeffscott on Oct 5, 2020 19:36:12 GMT -5
Organ, sort of:
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Post by jeffscott on Oct 13, 2020 0:55:24 GMT -5
Want big?
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Post by Leftee on Oct 13, 2020 9:08:11 GMT -5
I played pipe organ in marching band.
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Post by jeffscott on Nov 7, 2020 20:51:02 GMT -5
Check this out.
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Post by jeffscott on Apr 11, 2021 21:01:48 GMT -5
Don't turn your heads!
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Post by orrk01 on Apr 24, 2021 8:12:19 GMT -5
Thats where the saying "pull out all the stops" originates. Why did Beethoven have so many children? His organ didn't have any stops.
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Post by HenryJ on Apr 28, 2021 14:49:05 GMT -5
Thats where the saying "pull out all the stops" originates. Why did Beethoven have so many children? His organ didn't have any stops. I don't think Beethoven had kids. Johann Sebastian Bach had 20 children.
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Post by orrk01 on May 1, 2021 7:05:32 GMT -5
Why did Beethoven have so many children? His organ didn't have any stops. I don't think Beethoven had kids. Johann Sebastian Bach had 20 children. D'oh. Tough crowd. Even my jokes get corrected.
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