Church was so much more once before they started make the church humanistic. People think almost just about wordly things, not about what the liturgy actually means.
@@tajln It's not a compressor, it's a low RPM blower. A compressor would be much noisier. I know the instrument itself is not magic, but playing it is true magic. That man is operating two keyboards, a full keyboard of pedals, and a lot of functions buttons(you can see them on the left) for blower speed, air pressure, volume, tone, and a lot of other variables. That guy is playing polyphonic music with his hands and feet real time. That's the magic. It's not edited, it's played real time.
RYVERS cancel „disco“ in your answer, then it describes what organists do all the time. It’s kind of a pedal point. Disco is closer to traditional music than you may believe.
I mean yeah, but it's hard for people to find an organ to practice with. It's not like you can go to your local music shop and buy one. I see what you mean though, but that is probably a reason why it's not that talked about.
It's actually not. Organs are used very often. Specialy smaller organs are used very often. Huge church organs are used in Cinematic music (For film mainly)
@@StarClay666 actually, you can. Practice organs do exist, a little larger than a stand up piano and typically have 2 or 3 hand boards and 1 foot board. They're electronic of course, but they're good to learn on.
Massacre! The church is not the place to play such "melodies" !!!! The gamer looks like a puppet that is moved remotely, okay, because it is a clown, not a church game.
My goodness, Imagine playing this to Beethoven 200 years ago. I always wondered how historical figures would react to things that come out of their age.
Coolfred As a guitarist, guitar tech, and complete guitar nerd, electric guitar can’t hold a candle to a well built, well maintained pipe organ. The sheer amount of things one person can do with an organ, the inherent musicality of the space, the majesty of being able to witness a building built around a musical instrument, none of those can be matched by a guitar no matter how much amplification or how many effects you use.
Massacre! The church is not the place to play such "melodies" !!!! The gamer looks like a puppet that is moved remotely, okay, because it is a clown, not a church game.
My father was a church organ salesman. I grew up around these amazing instruments, in youthful ignorance I hated them. As an adult, I can see why he loved them so much. You do a great job here in this channel. Thank you.
We had an organ like this at my school in Leicester, UK, in the 1970's, and one of my fellow pupils (Steve Smith was his name, I think) could play virtually anything you asked him to without a score, so good was he. Included in his repertoire were pop tunes of the era, plus Teddy Bear's Picnic and The Devil's Gallop (exceedingly difficult to play) Where are you now, Steve?
@@salatwehr4099 There is old Polish video where guy on schooltrip plays Coco Jambo on old organ. Search for "coco jambo na 300letnich organach w kościele" and you'll find it
I just imagined hearing this song in church after the easter vigil. This would be so fitting and amazing. "Gimme Gimme Gimme a man after midnight" :D Someone please make this happen.
As an organist, I can confirm that this is 100% right. It's really too bad when I show people recordings of my organ playing because it's just not the same. Unlike any other instrument, playing the organ is not playing just an instrument but playing a building. Your instrument is built into the walls, some of which are 600 feet behind you. It's the OG surround sound, an immersive music listening experience you can't replicate even with the best dolby speaker setup/recording system in existence.
@@casadelshed9128 Church pipe organs never use speakers to increase their volume for those in the building. Instead, you change the "stops", the little round knobs this guy pulls out next to him. They change which pipe the organ's wind is being pumped through, and affect tone, volume, and more. Many organs have crescendo pedals which automatically couple more pipes to your current stop setting, and increase the volume. But your question's answer really depends on the organ. It's one of the least uniform instruments in the world, as every organ has a different number of "manuals" (keyboards), different kinds of stops, different combinations of electronic stops and real pipe stops, pedal key boards, and more.
the thing with this type of organ is the insane delay between pressing the note and actually hearing it (latency). It takes an insane amount of discipline to play fast paced rythmic music like that. you can hear the lagging behind in this video but it still sounds really good, he's trying to think ahead but is not quite there yet. That's an insane feat! If you've never played on an organ you won't understand, but you can try playing this song with increased latency on any DAW. It's really hard to keep up with the melody as you have to press the next key while hearing the last one just appearing. amazing focus
This is not correct! Yes there is a certain latency, but it is impossible to say from one perspective whether he nailed it or not. A regular church organ is tuned so that the audience can here everything perfect. This camera (and the microphone too I think) are placed right to the organ console, so sound from one manual takes more time to the mic than from the other. This results in a latency, which I think, is what you are hearing. If you stood behind him, this latency would be eliminated.
I have seen a guy doing this in the Church of Bergen Holland, it sounded great and amazing how much work he had to put in it. Church Organs do sound really well when played by people that know how to do it. Seen it, love it.
All said, you just gotta love this guy's body language! Also, never thought I would ever hear ABBA played on a church organ, and with so much feeling and enthusiasm! (watch him as he FINISHES.... he's really into his music ;-D). Great job!
Pax41 Music Time Machine Is there any chance that these records are out of copyright? If so, you could speak with the staff of archive.org (Internet Archive) and possibly share some of these records with a broader internet audience. I for one would love to get a chance to listen to these records, but it's a significant undertaking to obtain the equipment that can do them justice. And even if I did get it, I don't even have the physical space for it :(
Imagine walking into a church ready for the gospel reading then you just see ABBA walking down the isle GIMME GIMME GIMME A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT. You shout back no and they shut up
