Organs are solid investments. Look, megachurches spend so much a year on tech equipment for praise bands and pop music. But all you need to do is find a guy who will build you something like this for a couple of goats, tear out the carpets and ditch the seat covers, and you're set with beautiful worship music for the next 700 years.
if you take good care of them, then you are right... But sadly I know of several organs that are about 50 years old and already start falling apart... no wonder if you only heat the building up on Sundays and the rest of the week it's cold and wet...
No, they all have their place. I've had the pleasure to meet someone that learn something of what it takes to maintain a pipe organ like this, and that can't be glossed over. Hopefully, it won't be a skill that disappears.
Omigod! I love the sound of a pipe organ. In LA if you wish to hear amazing music on pipe organ go hear Bill Neck at St. Cyril s of jerusalem in Sherman oaks. Just 2 blocks west of 405 frway
As a kid, I used to help my Dad keep our 18th century organ in tune... always a week long thrash before Easter... always worth the effort. This instrument has an amazing voice. I think this is going into the bucket-list.
That keyboard dates from the Late Medieval Period? Amazing. Coming from a part of the world where anything over 125 years old is well nigh ancient, I am awestruck.
An incredibly talented musician. This organ is majestic and sounds amazing. The Cathedral is beautiful too. It is so amazing how old it all is and the condition is still so good. The history is incredible. She must have felt so proud to be there to play it
thank you youtube... you make us able to see every thing, form history until every thing what is not being seen in regular occation. this is one of my exiting moment
I wonder what the congregation 600 years ago would have thought as they gathered to worship and hear such an incredible instrument. No televisions, no radios, no instant music. Maybe some had some kind of instrument of their own, but this must have been incredible then, and truly incredible now--it still stands out as exceptional even in our day. A true wonder and delight. The music was beautiful.❤
“We were almost too tired to work” Diane I wouldn’t blame you either if you took a short nap. I would be tired too. For an organ that’s 400 years old it sounds so beautiful! 😌😴
What the inspiration could have been for the injured souls in the audience to hear this wondrous sound. Must have contributed to their hearts with hope. Such a unique ability in these times to visit and hear this resonance from the past that swells even in this day.
Javier Ruiz-Alonso: I could not agree more! The sound of these old masters, enhanced by the wonderful acoustics of these ancient cathedrals always gives my goose flesh ...
For such an ancient instrument, its sound is incredible. It's different in a way that I can't put my finger on, but the way Diane was selecting the stops obviously had an effect.
I have to agree with you Londonofgey, I had about thirty seconds of chills when I started hearing the first phrase of the music!!! It's almost incomprehensible to know how much history has passed since this organ was crafted with such artistic hands. I don't care that the music that she played wasn't exactly ancient... the effect is still the same.
Playing on this wonderful instrument must have been quite an experience. I find the sound rather impressive. I wonder how many of the original parts are still there and working.
This was magnificent ! Wow, what an incredible organ and what Diane can do with it ! Incredible listening Have shared it with my sister We are both organ (pipe) fanatics.!
I am awed by the history and thought of all the people who have played this organ... and all their hopes and dreams and fears that they brought to this organ... and then released to God.
Old, or not old, this is an amazing clip with such an old and beautiful organ. If you get a chance you should have a Joy of Music program in the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake. Beautiful organ, and spectacular playing. Keep up the good work.
Hey bishfan, thank you SO much for posting this video, I loved hearing this amazing, ungainly, wheezing brute (truly). Incredible to think it's still basically working about seven centuries or so.
Sir(s): If I may, Upon this Gladsome Date and at this Gladsome Time, state here and attest to the full how this setting prepares Us for the Mind of Christ. Furthermore, from the Book of Psalms, I reflect upon the Joy of Life and Invocation for Heavenly Aid in that, namely, "Do the Dead Praise Thee? And "Do those Exult Thy Name Who go down into the Dust?" The answer is one of amazement and wonder, for truly it was believed that they do not in the wondrous ways of People in this Present World.
Despite its age I can't help but notice how much technical innovation it seems to have. The keyboard looks like it came from a much later Italian virginals. I can also imagine two of your crew in back pumping the bellows as you play. (I know it's electric now.)
hi, if you have a contact with diane you could say that in Italy, in the north, there are fabulous organ, in busseto PR there is an organ serassi/tamburini (1838/1979) or parma a beautiful organ in the church of the "steccata" .all instruments have a very beautiful sound , its travel or concert in Italy would be much appreciated. tanks
Look at the huge wooden lever stops! Amazing :) This is the oldest playable, but are there any older, or of similar age, that aren't playable but in the process of being restored?
I have seen the 1st part. I am staggered at the skill required to design and build this ....in the 14th Century! When and how was music script devised and likewise how was the standard keyboard developed. And it sounds fabulous .
This instrument is intended for a totaly different repertory which probably this lady dos not know (late medieval music) . And that is the real challenge.
@krPeter2010 Can I ask (in all innocence), what is the foundation for the argument that music of the period in which the instrument was built should be played? I read about it a while ago but have since forgotten.
Imagine the different hands and eras that have passed by this relic! Okay, now rip it out and install a new Rogers digital organ! No, no.. just kidding!
@tman8077 - I have never pretended to be any kind of organist. However, I have been privileged to meet - and, in one case, befriend - several organists who could play Diane Bish off the map.
All of them, the only later addition is the 16' Subbass for the pedal. If you look at 3:19, you can see the pipes sticking out at the back of the organ.
Sounds like many an organ in ancient churches in Italy. Italian organists even play in the slower, careful style as demonstrated here because of the tiny keyboard & manual stops.
I think a hymn sounds beautiful being played on this organ. The keyboard arrangement isn't the same as a normal keyboard. There is a video explaining about it, I'll try to find the title.
Quote "My own playing of the organ is admittedly limited to pretty basic improvisation, ... " EccentricRichard (LOL) @EccentricRichard - Have you ever been to a live performance by Diane Bish? No, I don't suppose you have. Miss Bish studied with some of the foremost European teachers, including Marie-Claire. Get back to us when you have your own TV show which highlights some of the most impressive pipe organs in the world, OK? Cheerio ...
Interesting, that bass note at about 2:20; does this organ have a real pedal board, or the more primitive sort of single-note basses typical of that period?
only Octav 2', Quint Minor 1.1/3' e Mixtur II. are originals! (abt 90 tubes at all) the rest and also the soundboard and pedals are the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries!
I believe that a musical instrument is one that can be operated only under human power. The "true" Kings of Instruments are the organs which can be fully operated by human power. Are any large, bellows pumped organs still out there?
She knows it, no challenge there, but it's a far greater matter of the greater issue of giving glory to God that is the true function of an instrument of worship of that one true God in a place of worship of that one true God. I realize that likely much of Bish's focus is on appeasing the at least superficially Christian audience she gained as Coral Ridge Pres's organist vs actual heartfelt Christian worship, but that eternal principle remains nonetheless. Soli Deo Gloria!
@professeurdorgue hum youre right, but you understand that i cannot tolerate that some guys post "what a peace of shit" on the board, just to insult each others or to show that youre such a tough guy and stuff...
It's sad that now, the only thing our ignorant world can make that would last this long is trash, literally. We couldn't make something as grand as this or that would last like this to save our lives. What the heck happened to us is what I want to know.
