We were walking through a main square in Florence, Italy. A small orchestra was playing a lovely classical melody. Jokingly I said to my partner, "Not bad, but it ain't 'Tico Tico'". I swear, the next tune they played was - you guessed it!
Flat out, drop dead AMAZING! And not just for flashy chops - but for registration, nuances, and all the subtle little things that separate a "player" from a Master. Bravo!!!
Absolutely incredible performance from David he really gave that Organ a thorough work out no more cob webs in her now... left now Phew...I'm exhausted just watching him...
Takes me back to the (now defunct) Organ Grinder in Southeast Portland, Oregon. Pizza, salad, a game room, a Wurlitzer Organ about the shape and size of the one in the video...and at the conclusion of every half-hour set, a silent comedy from a pre-set 16mm Bell & Howell projector on a big screen. What awesome memories...
BRAVO Maestro! Check out the other videos of Tico Tico on the WERSI, which are good in their own right, with the aid of MIDI and auto-everything, Then look at this video again knowing the sounds are produced only by air and the organist's hands and feet. No MIDI, no sequencer... just him and a thousand or more pipes. GLORIOUS!!!
I am very familiar with the Wurlitser at the Tower Ballroom in Blackpool. They have a very specific style and sound because they have strict tempo requirements. I like this one because it is free and unrestricted.
There is nothing quite like the sound of a "mighty Wurlitzer." Even their electronic versions were pretty good - but Wurlitzer pipe organs just are DARNED hard to beat.
These are volume/loudness controls ("swell" pedals). Like the accelerator on a car, the pedal gives more "gas" to certain sets of pipes when rocked forward, by adjusting how far open the louvers are on a shutter mechanism behind which the pipes live.
Showing off his sheer speed with this one, which unfortunately with the acoustics there the sound structure blurs the notes together resulting in a kind of fast mush. 25% slower may have made a dramatic increase in sound quality, but would have still been faster than many others can play this.
The solenoids engaged by the keys act fast to open a path between the compressed air chamber and the pipe to be sounded, but the air getting into the pipe and beginning to vibrate is not as fast, and then there is the time delay from the pipes to the microphone.
For the uninitiated... no electronics here, no speakers, no power amplifiers. All the percussions are the real thing, played from the console. All that magnificent sound is produced by wind blown pipes. The wind is supplied by a huge blower in the basement. And to top it all off, probably the finest theatre organist in the world is wailing on it!
Well... electrical solenoids for the percussion -- and to control the valves for the individual pipes. Direct mechanical linkages, like from the keys to the hammers in a piano, would be impractical. There are wires, lotsa wires. The stops also couldn't be tabs unless it was fly by wire, and relays.
@@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648 For the uninitiated the percussions are played by wind driven pneumatics as are the stop tabs and pipes themselves.. But of course an electrical replay system is there to control everything. Before the discovery of electricity organ consoles had to be attached to the organ because the keys were indeed mechanically connected to the pipes with wooden rods and levers called trackers. Remember, pipe organs have been around for over a thousand years. Organs builders are always looking to technology to improve function and reliability. What I meant, of course, is that there are no electronically produced sounds. All sounds are produced by real instruments and pipes.
You do realize this is a song about a cuckoo in a clock....`tico tico ticks, tico tico tocks,` tico tico is the cuckoo in my clock. When he says Cuckoo it's time to woo. ........But not at that flipping speed.
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Blown Primary, you are entitled to your own opinion, but what you don't realize is that Tico Tico was Dave's Encore for that live performance. He had just played an entire concert, and was given a standing ovation. The tempo was perfect for the circumstances... I know... I was there... And BTW, during intermission, my wife's Grandmother asked him to play it... So this was actually Dave's way of fulfilling a request by a concert patron.
Amazing. No matter how flawlessly one does something on RU-vid, there's always some no class, low class asshole like "Blown Primary" (what the hell kind of user name is that anyway?) who goes out of their way, and ours, to find something to bitch about. What's wrong, BP, your local quickie mart out of Keystone Light again?
How horrible! I am happy that these terrible instruments and their players are finished playing. It is a disgrace and nothing more. I love Tico Tico and played by a modern interpretation not in this mouse killing outdated way. Awful! It sounds like a steam-organ on a fair.
Steam organ? Fair organ? They sound great too. If these instruments and their players are finished playing, how come there are hundreds still playing and new people coming into it all the time?
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