Bohemian Rhapsody through a Pipe Organ 

Just imagine how confused people would be when they passed by on the sidewalk and heard Queen getting played on a Pipe Organ from the inside of a giant church! ⛪️

wonder how for whom the bell tolls wound sound on the organ

You need to post the Necrophagist playthrough as well, that was fucking epic.

Please do more of Queen

This was awesome, and it actually brought a tear to my eye toward the end.

Sends shivers down my spine

Part of the reason it wasn't playing every note is just due to mechanical limitations. Pipe organs aren't meant to shred.

Imagine walking by a church and this is playing...

Sweet

Feed the organ Funkytown

Where is the guitar solo part?

I thought someone was going to physically play it?

They should have played this at Freddies funeral

Next up, this again with Freddie Mercury tribute act, choir and drummer.

The owner of the pipe organ: this thing 300-plus pistons Mumbo: I think I can beat that

Ok but can it do Never Gonna Give You Up

I think this further proves the classical music Influence on Freddie Mercury when he was writing alot of queens music. Some parts sound like they could've come straight out of a Bach Fugue

God I'd love a lossless audio file of this recording.

the "nothing really matters" part is so powerful and divine sounding!

Out of everything over the years, this moment in Rob's life I am most jealous of. I really want to go see that organ played.

Rob, your MIDI file has a whole verse missing, and half of the guitar solo!

hey Rob- me again. Binaural audio! Just sayin. Would take this to a whole new level. Like so he sees this

Oh this is gonna be fun. Edit: It was fun. The organ even hit the C5 around 3:40

4:08 This takes me back to high school marching band. I remember it being the last song and at this point all 200 of us were spread around the whole field in a big block. Everyone has FF as the dynamics. Basically play as loud as you can. The score goes in half time as you walk diagonally forward to your left. It felt badass!

4:11 probably my favorite part. That chord there in massive and I can’t stop listening to it

JS Bach would have loved a MIDI pipe organ. 😂

This definitely rang to the heavens

Freddy would approve! Hell, he would be up there rocking with you guys! I got goose bumps AGAIN!

This is great stuff! John is clearly enjoying learning capabilities he didn't know the organ had! Big thumb's up to you, Rob!

You should play some initial D on it! Imagine hearing deja vu or running in the 90s on a freaking pipe organ

This is solid Rob. You should recreate the pipe organ American Idiot from The Simpson's Movie

Rob-a suggestion for a series. Have a tour with Gary, John and Joey going to each other's instruments. Start it at Wrigley, which would be the least formal place. It would be a big change of pace for Chicago's premiere keyboard guys.

I think somewhere in the universe Freddie is smiling about this project.

Now Freddie Mercury’s singing need to be layered on top of this

Me: I have to do homework Rob Scallon:*video* Me:

This is something that is worth of doing a second round. Correct the small errors, separate thet unwillingly legato-ed notes and do a recording with more thought out mic placement. This is a treasure that must get WAY MORE exposure.

4:13. He said “wow”. Translation he enjoyed the bass. Always have more bass to songs it adds grandeur.

I can still hear the singing, wow

Next up, "Trout Mask Replica full album through a Pipe Organ"

I'd love to hear a binaural recording of this! Maybe next time you can set up two mics, ear-length apart, and put them on separate balances!

Youre living the dream my guy

Awesome! To answer your question @5:22 - The way to top that is to play Pink Floyd's "Celestial Voices" on it. It definitely belongs in a church. There is b&w video of the late great Rick Wright playing it on a pipe organ somewhere long ago, but clearly not of this magnitude. Their performance of it at Pompeii in '71 is probably one of their best. Thank you.

if this doesnt get played at my funeral im not showing up lmao

Imagine going in there to pray then some people are just playing Bohemian Rhapsody on the organ

This is basically the Rev Richard Coles most days at evensong.

More please. Any song - I straight up don't care. Just do more of this!

At this rate, we see gonna have a "I used a pipe organ to take over the world"

"Do what you want with my music, just don't make it boring." -Freddie Mercury

Your time is gonna come by Led Zeppelin, please.

at 4:02 the extremely low bass pipes sound incredible at the last part of this little transition

I wonder if the organ musician can better that. I bet he could anyone agree?

That MIDI file was absolute rubbish but Rob's enthusiasm more than makes up for it.

Surprised that you used a MIDI sequencer and not the organist! I have so many parts in Cakewalk. Do the pipe organ accept multiple tracks for different stop setting or you use different midi instruments (out of 128) for different stops of the organ?

Is there a MIDI download available? I want to try this on my pipe organ...

Someone from the pews out front yells “Freebird”!!! LOL! 🤣🤣😂😂 also this would be the most epic way imaginable to play marry had a little lamb lmao 🤣

This just gives me goosebumps, i wonder how it was really in that church to hear that.

This is the equivalent of drifting a cement mixer!

I really hope Freddie can hear this up there - He would LOVE it !!!

The genius of Freddie Mercury. This music is on par with some of the greatest composers. If that arrangement were cleaned up, it would be really great.

Would love to hear a full queen set on this organ! Anything is possible

4:15 you can hear the Oh Yeah! O,O

Had to have the organ with all it's voices-and Freddy's voice is still very much missed in the mix.

but can it run Doom?

This is extreamly epic, cant describe it, I must see this IRL at least once in my life

Am i the only one who got chills and teary eyed when he said "we miss you Freddie"?

Crazy stuff, thanks for sharing

I need the djent part of the woven web

i am the only man in the world who can play pop songs in church

now it sounds holy

I love this series so much

Here's a question, with all of the Catholic churches closing what has become of the pipe organs many of these had?

do a rusty cooley song next. it would sound like one note

No hats in the church, this isn't your den or the street!

Will you be releasing the full vid from the organ playing rain? @RobScallon2

Do you realize what you've done Rob? You've made thenorgan player useless, tha organ can play itself now. YOU JUST LOST THAT MAN HIS JOB.

0:06 is this a real life? Is just the fantasy? Caught in the landslide to escape from reality.. Open your eyes close to the skies and see!!

Thank god

I'd love to hear the full clip of rain playing on this too.

I'd love to see "I want to break free" by Queen, or some AC/DC song.

This genuinely made me hapoy

Cant there be concerts with that? Honestly. This is defenetly a great discovery already and it already sounds great. But imagine experienced musicians/organists composing music in midi to utilize the ability of playing all the keyboards simultaniously if need be while actually having the ability to engage certain pipes from the different divisions live according to the music that is being played right now. Like in this song possibly having the opportunity to seperate the guitar and vocal melodies a bit more from the rest of the music and so on. It just looks like the full potential of this instrument has never been unlocked, since obviously a single organist can not play 7 keyboards simultaniously while also engaging and stopping certain pipes while playing. Would be damn awesome to have great musicians actually writing music or arranging existing music specificly for that instrument utilizing all the flexibility it provides

should go back and play more midi and perhaps redo some custom to the organ use. such as using 2 ranks to get around the slow note issues.

This would have been so much better if Grinning Beanie Hat hadn't kept making stupid remarks and let us enjoy the actual music without his irrelevant comments!

Anybody have sheet music or a midi download that can be transferred as sheet music of this bc wow!

A steal from Bert van den Brink - who performed this light years' better?

Stairway to the Skies by Within Temptation! Are you even taking recommendations? Meh, fuck it! 😂

Certified Rick Wakeman flavour here!

Still a lot of room for improvement! (very mechanical, not really arranged for an/that organ, not the optimum registration)

Having that input port and using a few relays you could have some real fun with pranks of an organ that plays itself at night but only when the lights are out. A simple light sensor and a radar board and you can know when there is movement or lights to turn everything off and go back into sleep mode.

$3M organ controlled by a $1000 laptop. The neat thing about the old paper roll organs was they had a line for stops and also swell levels.

Need to upload full versions of Rain and Anchor on the organ!!

i love it but out of this whole organ is missing something and thats the chamade trumpet al though it has a bombarde 32'.

lmao someone was for sure like how many fucking hands does this guy have??

I would love to give him about an hour to actually program various notes to divisions and clean it up a bit

I'd go to church if it was like this everyday

Imagine being the guy who made that MIDI and seeing this.

The organ is too majestic and the church too holy to play such pittyfull poor music.

Please play some Castlevania tunes through this beautiful instrument!

Can the MIDI control the stops as well?

Curious in some parts, beautiful in other parts, but horrible in a many.