Organist Josh Stafford plays Bohemian Rhapsody on the largest pipe organ in the world 

Nor will I ever. It would be like reading 8 lines in a book simultaneously. Super-humans, I suppose.

@@MrKeys57 7 Manuals and 1 Pedalboard.

@@MrKeys57 there’s the four directly on front, then there’s three more you can see through the... music... holder, uh, thing

You can only play two of the keyboards at one time...each keyboard has its own unique sounds, but all keyboards can be coupled together meaning you can play them all at the same time...organ music only ever has 3 lines....pedal and two keyboard lines.

@@noeljay14 get where you are coming from but a good Organist can actually play 4 Manuals and the pedal board at the same time - Read Harold Gleason’s 1937 publication ‘Method of Organ Playing’ for more information - do not confuse this with Coupling (Where by different manuals [and thus the voicing/timbre] can be connected). Multiple manuals, particularly on Theatre Organs were set up for a wider range of voicing and were played un coupled.

@@st0rmrider you've got zero taste and i declare you dead in my world

​@@lo2740 Organs are made for live performance. Try to get the volume and sound with a PC speaker. You need something much, much larger.

I think Freddie would approve of this. I find it incredibly interesting on a historic organ!

​@@jenx5870Everyone has their opinion, that's right, so my opinion is thinking that people who find this boring have shit taste.

​​@@lo2740you're right. They can do more. But they will always one thing they cant reproduce. An organic sound. A PC+Keybord produce sounds we recognice as music. But an organ (this organ isnt a church organ by the way, more like a theatre organ the intonation is quite different) sings. An organ has a very special character of its own. No organ sounds ghe same as the other, every instrument has its own quirks and little flaws witch make them an work of art on their own. Every Organ is almost like a new friend. You cant just sit down and play, you need to gdt a feeling for it. Everytime i sit down on an organ bench i greet the instrument. Pull out some stops and work my way up to tutti slowly to learn where each register is placed, which keys start the windflow at which point (even though there shouldn't be a big difference) and how each register is tuned and how it sounds in this specific room and instrument. Its just a very organic feeling to play at a real (almost living) instrument, then on somethin dead like a midi keyboard. Both things have their place in the moder world. But I will allways choose my organ over any keyboard out there. Little note: most of the organs i habe played here in germany are still fully mechanic instruments with wooden tractures/actions that open the pipes for the windflow. There are also electrical and pneumatic organs that work totaly dofferent to mechanical ones and i've never played such an instrument. So i just talked about mechanical organs.

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And Time :D

@@barnabascsenki513 That's the best comment yet lol

"play us a song, you're the organ man, who gives us our fun for free"

Or a big enough building. It mustn't be forgotten that you're not actually seeing the instrument. Only the "control centre". The actual pipe system will be gargantuan with at least six subdivisions.

you just got a free pass with my organ

I’m gonna be possessed if you didn’t keep up the organ lessons after tho

I gave one of my organ to him, im now lacking my other kidney

Aye yooo... pause.

Organ selling is illegal

My organ teacher believed organs weren’t just for “marryin’ and buryin’”. I learned many fun songs from her!

@@RockinR07 is

There are plenty. Everything from video game themes yo star wars to this and back. Organ music is in good hands. They're champions don't ya know ;)

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@@joshschneider9766 Speaking of VGM, you probably mean something like this, don't you? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LOBPzFUqQR8.html

Josh, you need to quit drinking.

@@lawrenceking192 You are so right.

reading sheet music when trained is not much different than reading a book, you don't even think about it (i only read treble clef lol). playing two keyboards is not hard either. i think the trick is the foot pedals. wayyyy out of my league !!

Which is more amazing - sight-reading complex music, or playing an entire repertoire from memory?

@@8546Ken depends on the instrument you are playing, sight reading is reasonably easy on an organ or piano, but I don't know about other instruments. It is more the fear of when you are first starting out - e.g. as an organist - that you will make a mistake, and then you start to make mistakes, even if you have learned a piece and practised it a lot

Are you sure it was only 4? 😆 Two keyboards with one hand simultaneously!!! The entire performance was stunning 🥰

@@secretagent86 but where's his page turner?

I would say keyboards are easier to master. when you press a key you get the desired note. No special technique, pressure, embrasure, or any other manual skills. I have played keyboads for years, but a string, wind, percussion? Never able to manage that. But I can claw away a keyboards and do a passable job.

Well... I think Freddie would've yelled vulgar obscenities and smashed his guitar over the guys head.

I don't think he would have liked someone assuming what he would like or not like. Oh wait....

Is it just me or did the organist at 4:40 have an orgasm? Cause I did.

Well, the timing is also not the best …

@@blabluppo9044 shut. show me a video of you playing Bohemian Rhapsody on the largest pipe organ in the world as good as this guy does then i will end my disagreement

W TEMP

@@blabluppo9044 It's because of the tone delay. Because of the pressurized air needed to make any tones, there will be a 1-2 beat delay for some pipes. He did exceptional for such a rhythmic song on an instrument which makes it so difficult to do so.

@@blabluppo9044 it’s not supposed to be because the sound goes through the whole building. It’s slowed slightly on purpose.

Well it's not as hard as it looks. All of the keyboards are set up the same way, meaning the octaves are identical. So, technically, if you've mastered one keyboard, all you're doing is switching keyboards. All those tabs on the left are the 'stops' which you turn on and off to change the sound of the organ. Easy peasy lemon squeezie! 😉

@@catwoman2329 I have the coordination of a low flying brick. Anything requiring simultaneous but different motions in the hands is pretty much impossible. Both hand and both feet? At least FailArmy gets a nice video of me falling of the chair. Major respect to anyone who can even pull it off- it's way harder than it looks.

@@phoephoe795 don't be a victim of circumstance

It's really just like one giant piano with extra steps.

​@@catwoman2329the hands,..working the foot pedals and the hands looks hard to me,...the keyboards maybe too diferent from a keyboard, except you don't have the pedals to free the fingers on the organ

I am sure a certain combination of switches will activate the laser beam to destroy a planet.

@@tamas7555 lucky it’s a secret

I recall the Death Star laser controls being simpler than this...

Sure but can you play bohemian rhapsody on a deathstar?

Deathstar has only one ringtone, the imperial march 😂

Nor rogue apostrophes!!!! : - )

@@Elgarman Drats. Nabbed by the grammer police again.

@@jabirujoe5206 Grammar. 😁

@@Elgarman I'm trying to figure out what expletive to use against you, you nasty person. It's not my fault if my fingers and my brain aren't at their optimum best after a few pints. I'm too old to be subjected to such rigid scrutiny. :-) PS. Let me rephrase my original comment. "This world needs more pipe organs and less grammer police". Cheers mate. :-)

@@jabirujoe5206 It's not nasty at all - it's enlightening. I don't even know you, so why would I want to hurt you? I think that good writing is important, and I hope you do too. It's to do with a love of language. (This world needs more pipe organs, and fewer grammar police.)

I think it's equipped with a gong, but it's one typical with theatre organs. So not a full-sized gong. But agreed! It would be awesome if it was equipped with one.

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Good one, Pete.

La armonía llevada con la diversidad de tonos y perfiles de sonido hacen lograr una elevación por la magistral interpretación del organista

And... how old are you now ? :lol: i.e : how many years have you been waiting for this organ to (yet partially, but still enough) be reborn ?

@@generalackbar245 It's been in the works for ages. Good to see it is kinda working now, I believe it is still small by working pipes alone. The biggest (operating fully) organ in NJ (at least) is at Ocean Grove. Saw that one live, free concerts Wednesdays and Sundays in the summer.

Impressive as hail yasss!!

@@grandson_0623 Right now it's at about 18,800 working pipes out of a total of 33,113. Going by the number of working pipes, it's the fourth largest organ in the world right now.

@@KingdaToro which is the first?

It has 7 manuals or keyboards and each of them has many registers...

@@ebvpwilfried3570 in fact more than 1300 registers.-

It‘s practically 9 keyboards since the lowest ones have „second touch“; you can play different registers if you press hard enough once your fingers play a key. The pedal has this also, that makes it 11 „keyboards“ in total. I got the chance to play this organ last week. Amazing!

The lower manuals on this instrument have a much larger compass than the usual 5 octaves, which helps account for how many more pipes the instrument has than the number of stops would suggest.

@@michaelweickenmeier6597 Hold up, it can play from a different register of you just hit it harder? Like this thing wasn't insane enough.. Awesome tidbit of info, thank you!

Could've*

@@anti_honey or "could have"

If only they could’ve imagined the space travel that would be possible with this as a control console on all faster than light vessels.

@@kishascape um, i'm just curious, do you listen to twenty one pilots?

The instrument was constructed approximately 1930 in Atlantic City, New Jersey USA. I imagine if they _had_ somehow known that a flamboyantly gay guy's music would be played and listened to by well over 2 million people across the globe, they probably would have burned the damned thing down out of spite.

absolutely

My only thought is to maybe add a piano on one of the manuals for one or two parts…. But so good and creative! Played with emotion and dynamic.

Interesting how it is broken down to its simple form as apposed to its grand form on such a apparatus well done !!. FYI---Apparatus was used in the past as Healing device.

To EEe Man: I hope that we can master making good bread from this.

Some would say Keith Emerson had the functional equivalent

You're thinking of the Wanamaker Organ at Macy's Center City in Philadelphia, PA. This is the Boardwalk Hall Auditorium Organ at the Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, NJ.

Is Bach... Toccata and Fugue...

@@gabrielabagala yes, Bach. I mistyped. I listen to tons of classical...

That is the most amazing song

Dear F. Lavigne: I hope the bread is good.

There are more pipes than keys. Different sets of pipes have different sounds. The switches (stops) at the sides determine which sets of pipes are activated by which keys. The more stops you pull the more sets of pipes are played by each key. All stops out uses all the pipe sets.

@@robertfletcher11: Dear Robert F: I enjoy organ music from the deep classics, church, progressive rock, like a la YES, ELP, Genesis, etc: However, I think that organs like this are overkill in the modern era. ----------------- One can take MIDI boxes, and computer software, layer them up, and create similar sounds.

You can certainly mimic the sound with a bunch of MIDI boxes, but there is no set of speakers that can produce the acoustics of a pipe organ of this size.

​@@terryclifton1517especially the big boy 64' registers. It's got four registers voiced on 100 inches of wind pressure and another ten on 50 inches of pressure.

@@eddyvideostarYes also used real pipe organs (Close to The Edge, Going For The One, etc)

Philosophically they're not _as_ complex as they look: each of those switches to the sides lets one of the keyboards control a particular set of pipes. It's just that there's _so many_ switches and keys, with some combinations allowing duplicates.

The "notes" are actually the air feeding though the pipes via the keyboards.

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Exactly. Stan Rusk got it immediately: the Cuban heels aren't fashion accessories. The pedal bars are close together and Mr. Stafford must often use one foot to operate multiple pedal bars. I have noticed some other theatre organists wear similar shoes with tapered Cuban heels; it's obviously in the interest of precision footwork. I'm just speechless with admiration for anyone who has the brain-eye-ear-coordination, musicality and dexterity to play an instrument like a theatre organ, let alone to transcribe a rock 'classic' as brilliantly as this. I wonder how Mr. Stafford's new arrangement will sound on the Boardwalk Midmer Losh, when this instrument is restored to 100% capacity (remember, the it's still playable at only just over 50% of its original capacity)......

@@1966Hillman It's for a fast change between pedals, you play with shoe tips and heels, and the foot position would be crazy, to do this with sneakers. So they all use high heels, most offen more tippy shoes. Nobody has this "brain-eye-ear" coordination. The brain is to slow for this. It's like typewriting blindfolded, fingers know what to do without thinking. You also don't look at it, just on the central keyboard or your notes. And the ear comes to late anyway. The ear can only proof you have done right, after it happened. It's all like you don't have to think on , how to form your mouth to get special sounds, how to speak a word, you just do it, it's not brainwork, it's training.

These are standard equipment for organists -- they facilitate pedal technique immensely.

Dear @Garret Lewis , Still it is possible to get pretty close to "feel the 'might' of the world's largest pipe organ" in you own room ! Though I have to tell you: it will be kinda expensive.. You'll need to get a "high end" stereo set with ewal good loudspeakers - and (this really is essential !!) a high grade "active sub base speaker" (note: that is definitely NOT the same as a "sub woofer" aka "boombox", used in cars !) My sub base speaker is a "R.E.L. Q150E" and it is perfectly suited for a not-so-very-large room. (In fact it's in my sleeping room. In the living room I got an even bigger stereo set and a bigger "R.E.L." sub base speaker. Yes, I'm an eclectic music lover e.g. compositions by Mr. J. S. Bach). Mind you: it is extremely important you try to find the right place to put your sub base speaker - in fact the acoustic properties of a room are a big part of the "sound equation". After you found this "sweet spot" take care to adjust your sub base correctly, meaning: not TOO freaking loud ! The sounds of your two stereo speakers and the deep sound of the sub base should "blend in" to be one (formidable) sound reproducing system. I hope you manage getting all this equipment - and get all the wires, adjustments right - and then you may enjoy the awesome might of huge pipe organs, yes: in your own room ! Btw. you may need an experienced friend or else get professional help, if you're no technician. Because it is certainly not easy to assemble a high end stereo set correctly - e.g. using very good (not too long !) cables are also really important. But if it all works the way it's supposed to - you'll have an awesome sound reproduction system, that will give you many years of sheer musical enjoyment ! Blessed Be. ❤😊😊❤