Thank you for taking the time to record proper, clean and clear audio. As a surround sound headphone user, listening to these distinctive instruments is 100% pure joy for my ears.
Thanks Fraser. Loving your videos. The sound quality is already pretty decent in my opinion, some lovely bass coming through from the pedals. I have a suggestion for widening your audience: you could contact the amazing Gert van Hoef, here in the Netherlands where I live (I'm also a northern Brit), and film a meet up with him (with an organ of course!). In that way you cross-pollinate your subscribers! I for one have discovered you via RU-vid's suggested videos whilst watching Gert's and he currently has over 50,000 subscribers. I have seen several other successful channels increase their viewers by doing this. Just an idea for the future, especially seeing that you live reasonably close to each other. Already looking forward to your next video!
Just discovered your channel. Simply remarkable! It would be wonderful to get at least one panorama shot of each church's interior (and exterior too). I will never (probably) visit these places in person, so the context would be nice.
Never excuse yourself for using parallel fifths. As long as you are aware of the rules of counterpoint you can break them as much as you want. Great video as always. 🎶🎼🎵
This channel is exactly the kind of content I've been looking for! I play the harpsichord but I've always had an interest in taking up the organ. Thank you for providing an excellent resource for learning about these monstrous musical machines!
A big "BRAVO!" Fraser. A really fascinating video. Merci bien. 👍💕 Did I miss who the organ-builder was? (I must have...) Please revisit this wonderful instrument and show us the pipework sometime. 🙂
Maestro Gartshore! Another magnificent work to display an amazing organ! You, sir, are a treasure. I’m only saddened that the video couldn’t be longer to show off more of the organ’s capabilities. Please continue to display these fine instruments for those of us who can’t get to them to enjoy them in person. Thank you so much, Maestro!
WOW!!! That is really a shame about the lightning strike on the original console, but the temp replacement seems to be working nicely! That full organ with the 32' stops is a-maz-ing!!😁 I *had* to run that back a couple times and crank my sub-woofers up a bit to thoroughly terrify my 2 cats.🤣😆👻🙀 What an amazing instrument.. thanks again Fraser for the great tour and review!!😁🎶🎵👍👍 (That transpose stop is GREAT!) I can do that on my Hauptwerk setup too, but it transposes the whole organ...
Truly amazing! Great presentation, wonderful French organ, a story about Pierre Cochereau...... and a jazz improvisation with some very funny modulations. Thank you, Fraser.
Oh my good Lorddd, what an instrument *__* Your videos are of such an incredible importance! I love them, each and every one of them is ist just brilliant! Could you do me a favour - next time you play a piece closing in on a video - could you play " The Green Fields Of France" (by so many great interpreters, I guess haha :D ). If that´d be even possible? Now that´d be most kind of you. Thank you and your wife for the great videos. There´s soo much work that has to be put into them. I really cherish this! Just brilliant! Vielen Dank und Grüße aus Kyllburg (Südeifel) Stefan :)
Marvelous. Thank you for explaining so much about the organ sounds and effects. You are a master at creating beautiful tone qualities and explaining them.
This is the third video of yours that I've watched (I subscribed immediately after seeing the first) and as in the case of the first two that I watched, I thoroughly enjoyed this video too. Aside from the wonderful playing, you offer quite a lot of information that's so important and I appreciate that very much and Bravo to you! All of the best to you in everything and particularly with your channel. Cheers!
Fabulastic organ! I remember the monetary efforts it took to get our own organ modernized very well. I hope they'll have the old "loft" reopened soon... Btw, when is the first fan meeting? :)
Seems to me that many people want to see you in your plaid kilt playing THE Toccatta and Fugue from Bach! You are already at 8.5K subscribers! I hope that old kilt still fits!
Interesting... I knew that organ pipes where set out in whole tone scales but, on "my" organ, they aren't. They are set out chromatically with highest on the right and then the lowest on the left and then a few of the lower notes Open Diapason pipes scattered around. The pedal 16ft Bourdon pipes are set in two rows - the first set are from lowest C to middle C# and go from left to right and then on the second row, D to top F are from lowest on the right to highest on the left, but rather stupidly, the larger of the Bourdon pipes are in front of the smaller pipes making tuning a pickle! The 8ft Dulciana pipes from low C to C an octave above, are also the same pipes for the same notes for the 8ft Stopped Diapason saving a bit of space. Its very weird how its set out but, after all, it is a converted large Chamber Organ!
once again thank you for your music and that's what you get for having a blast!! blowing the dust out of the pipes!! I've been doing that for many years as well; I am a composer just like you and have get this(3 synthi zizers) keyboards and I use one of these at my church and it's tuned with the organ; how about that EH?? I sure wish someday get overseas just to meet you in person thanks for the music and crank it to the Max!!!
Nun, Sie sind ein wirklich angenehmer Geschichtenerzähler und Musiker, ich freue mich immer sehr auf Ihre Episoden. Lachen mit sich selbst macht es komplett. Vielen Dank für deinen Kanal. Well you are a really pleasant storyteller and musician, I always look forward to your episodes with pleasure. Laughing with yourself makes it complete. Thank you for your channel.
@@FraserGartshore There was a north-american in that class, I remember. Maybe that was him ? Funny. World is so small... Langlais was not very friendly, but if you want to learn, you have to accept the all person. Regards.
What a fantabulous instrument, both in voicing and stop facilities - not to mention the voice over!!! 'We" could do more of this style of instrument to move out of the church into the public arena..
I really enjoyed this video, especially the jazzy tune at the end. I don’t play any instrument but I’ve always loved the big sound of the pipe organ. Thank you.👍👍
The pedal to manual coupler was certainly a surprise to me, and what superb acoustics!! Am enjoying your videos as a traditional English church organist who has played in France, loving the tone qualities between the English, French and German organs, impressed with the harmonies and jazz too!
Definitely playing the room! Just like George Wright did on his Fox Theater records! This is without a doubt my favorite of all of your improvs Fraser! Jazz magic begins at (27:08) !
I love the ability to couple any division to any manual! Every division is a floating division! It's a bit weird to be able to couple the pedal division to the manuals, and I don't really see the point, but still a cool quirk. Pizzicato and sostenuto could be useful I guess. Also super interesting to be able to couple the choir organ like that. The french tone is just lovely too! I hope they find the money to restore the old console. Thanks for showing this organ!
Pedal stops on a keyboard, and all the others (the not pedal ones) on another one! The perfect pipe organ setup for doing some modern church music that needs really snappy bass lines (maybe you and a friend (better if organist also him) may one day do with this beast a boogie woogie (or cha cha cha) variation on a classic piece)!
Very cool to hear something a little jazzy on one of these organs. I had no idea churches hired people to play stuff like that. Very cool of them to not only stick to more traditional church music.
Lovely episode, this. Thank you. Sounds like I need to learn more about French organs and organists. I will be in France next year, and should look for good places to attend. Will be around Toulouse. Thank you. John Benson, M.D. Redlands
after watching a few great videos of Fraser Gartshore here on his YT channel, in the middle of this one i started wondering if he likes and plays other music styles such as jazz as well ... i was actually going to ask him about it in the comments section ... and then he just answered my question at the end of this video without me even get the chance to ask! ;-)
@Alain Bressers Very sad indeed. Which recording are you listening to? I have long been searching for a higher quality version of Olivier Latry playing Passacaglia and Fugue in the Notre Dame, because the one currently on RU-vid is absolutely grandiose, but the sound quality is really terrible.
Very interesting and well presented video. There is so much to learn about the capabilities and functions of an organ. I am pleased to see that you have, at the time of me writing, 1,198 views, which is fantastic and I hope you feel making videos in both German and English is worth your time and trouble. If it is possible, would you be able to explain the stops I notice just above the pedal board, which I assume are "shortcuts" to registrations. Best wishes.
Very interesting to see innovations first popularized in the theatrical unit orchestras crossing over to the specification of this organ. This versatility I really enjoyed in your jazz. This is new ground in churh organs! Anyone for a couple coffin trems to go all the way to a "gospel division?"
Was the new console's design direction helped by you? The toys on the backrail are very Wurlitzer school. Frankly, I'm surprised there's no second touch! 😏
Great presentation. I just subscribed your channel! After watching your video from Westerwald I felt a bit jealous of the cleaness of the instrument. I would greately appreciate a video on how to properly keep organ in a good condition, how to clean pipes and mechanisms and maybe on how to tune pipes - simply speaking a maintenance that an organist can (and probably should be able to) do on his/her own.
There is a saying that the debate between the science and religion has been settled when people installed lightning rods on churches. It's still a pity that it wasn't enough to protect the organ of this church.
You talk about the "French" sound, the "German" sound and presumably the "English" sound. What are they, how do they differ and is this perhaps the subject of another excellent video (like the rest!)?
Hello! I really enjoy your videos! I just wanted to ask you, as an organ and piano enthusiast, what would you say, how could I try out an organ in a church? Just ask someone there? Or how did you start your organ carreer? Thanks in advance!
Hi, sure - just ask. Try to find out who the organist is and ask them personally. Organists can be funny folk, some are really cool and open about letting others try out the instrument, others treat their instruments like Gollum's ring and wouldn't let their own Granny anywhere near them... I have no idea why some are like that - maybe they're afraid that new organists could become better than them or, god forbid, popular! Where are you based? Glad you're enjoying the videos - I'm trying to make this weird instrument more popular - organists are sadly a dying breed in many parts of the world. We need a new, younger generation to take interest in organs and their music. I hope my efforts are worthwhile! But yeah, just ask at the local church. Tell them you're interested in finding out more and maybe taking lessons etc etc.
@@FraserGartshore Thank you for the detailed answer! :) I'm based in Hungary, we have many many churches with organs, I just don't know where to start :D I'll be a piano technician, just wanted to play on an organ in my life for at least once. Yes, keep making the videos, they are one of a kind, we all love it!
I am new to your channel and really enjoy your videos. On your Learning organ for beginners video the key colors on the organ console were reversed, meaning black and white. Why do the builders of certain organs design it like that? Looks very different and must be hard to get used to.
Hahaha! What reed did you use to create the (horrible!!) Kinura effect? (By which I only mean how horrible the kinura is on its own). You did that so well, it almost sounded like a unit organ!
Dang! So you could play bach at the historical pitch on this organ, and at modern pitch too! (I understand that this organ is perhaps unsuitable for Bach, though)
Not for the original baroque sound I guess. But I feel like Bach gets interpreted differently a lot and, in my opinion, his music lends itself well to it. I mean, Stokowski turned many Bach pieces into overbearing romantic orchestra arrangements. Whether you like that or not is up to you, but I wouldn't object hearing Bach on that organ.
07:22 This is a quick idea to pick up more sound, what if you were to place a microphone every 5-10 feet (or at the exact spot where every pillar is) to pick up more sound? I hope that makes sense, I am British and I live in the United States. I also use both the metric system and the american measuring systems (inches). I just instinctively used the word "feet". I hope my idea makes sense and is seen.
Johnny Burns floating divisions are like normal divisions, like the swell division, but they are not assigned to a certain manual, so they have to be coupled to a manual in order to be played. So if you have a floating solo division, you can not play any of the stops until you couple the division to a manual
So far I've not been able to find a link for this organ that shows me the organ specification (or tells me what company originally built this organ). Anyone have a link?
Hi! I love your videos, especially these Jazz music parts. Were you a theater organist before? I just can' t wait to buy your book, when finished, to learn to play organ properly :-)
