The 1728 Trost Organ in Waltershausen, Germany | Bálint Karosi | Demonstration of Stops 

1:24 Hauptwerk 10:51 Oberwerk 16:12 Brustwerk 21:09 Pedal

Organ builder: how many 8 foot stops would you like? Congregation: YES

The true, quintessential “Thuringian [Bach] sound”

One of my favorite instruments... i especially enjoy the spinning stars of the Zimbelstern

Definitely one of my biggest goals is to do what this man can do. It is truly admirable that someone gets to know the organ so well, currently I am more interested in this instrument and its great powerful world. good luck and see you in the future of the organ.

I spend many hours playing the Hauptwerk sample set of this incredible instrument. How wonderful to hear such a detailed and warm-hearted demonstration. Must be amazing 'in the flesh'. Thank you 🙏

Definitely a grand organ with great stops, and includes the 32’ Posaunen Bass in the pedal, and a zimbelstern. Can’t wait for the demo

Rewatching this for the first time in a while, and I’m only now taking in the incredible variety of colours one can get out of this instrument. Practically every single stop sounds unique and different from all the others, and practically every possible combination of stops seems to produce a new, fascinatingly characterful colour. Now if only new instruments were built along these lines more often….

first we see the town, the market, the place of the church in there, the interior, the placement and size of the organ in this church and only then the spieltisch. this all is prerequisite to understand the importance, task and quality of any organ anywhere. Now you start to operate meaningfull with your musicsheets, stops, fingers, feet and mouth: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben...

Amazing!! Thanks so much! (I can't help but think what would have happened, had the forefathers of the "Orgelbewegung" not taken the North-German baroque organ as "the" ideal, but rather also considered the Thuringian (and South Garman) styles as well.... Just listen to all those 8' stops!!!! So romantic *huge smile*

¡WOW! Balint, que gran maestro, de exquisita educación, ¡ bellisimo ! órgano barroco de Waltershausen. ⚘💖⚘👍

Love those drawknobs!

Thanks for the fascinating demo. The pedals by themselves were particularly interesting. You must have to be dragged away from this beast! More addictive than RU-vid-- provided you can do all that.

What a beautiful town! And as for this glorious instrument, just incredible. Thank you Balint for sharing this with us.

Szuper orgona, kiváló bemutató, továbbá tehetséges orgonista! Remek :)

Oh, what an excellent video!!💕 Thank you for showing us the gloriousness of this instrument! Everything about this video is beautifully done: from the interior shots of the church (that staircase!!💕) & closeups of the pipes, to your lengthy musical improvisations...we really get to experience the history and magic of this sacred space! Thank you Balint...Your videos NEVER disappoint!!🌺😊🎶

Thank you Balint for demonstrating this wonderful organ. A great up close look at the instrument and the Church surrounds. The video, audio and editing is very well done. We have all heard this organ for many years with a variety of virtuosos. You are the latest maestro.

Your talent and musicianship shines through your wonderful tour of this magnificent organ! Your personality is very engaging as well! Thank you.😊

Thank you Balint for this demonstration. What a wonderful organ, and organ case and the church itself. All a delight to see and hear.

One of my all time favourite instruments to listen to. I have over a dozen recordings on it. And it is so interesting to have the tour. I watched as the action became heavier and heavier. Not an easy instrument to play with the pedal to the metal! But enjoyable to learn and listen. Thanks for making this video. I have learned a lot about an instrument that I knew well in the academic sense.Now I can put a sonic signature to every stop listed in the specifications. Some of them are world class. Oh, and I lika the Reeds! Wish you added in a few labial 16's would have been a real shake and bake moment:)

The site of the legendary Stamm-Bach recordings.

I'm really looking forward to the presentation of this great organ!

I've watched those performances by Hans André Stamm on this organ. It's great to get a proper tour of it.

Brilliant- so interesting that the church is structured somewhat like a theatre - the organ is amazing too

Wow....you play the organ like magic

Love you stop tour's. Love flutes.

How nice that you were here! I've already borrowed the key for a few hours. ^^ By the way, I interpret this Geigenprincipal above the keyboards as a replacement for a solo violin at the musique. It speaks directly into the room and can also be easily heard by singers on the gallery. Also fascinating: this Vagarr is nothing more than an flute amabile, well over 100 years before this stop became the general standard, Trost must have been a true visionary! All best for next year!

Splendid as ALWAYS!

One of the most beautiful organs I've ever seen

Thank you for demonstrating that beautiful instrument!

What an amazing sounding instrument ! 😍👍 Thank you for the also amazing demo !

Christ, such a beautiful sound!

Amazing!

A fabulous sounding instrument. An absolute delight to hear the sound in any stop combinations.

Just beautiful. Thanks to you and everyone who supported you to learn how to play so beautifully.

It is and remains my absolute favourite organ. Thanks for the great presentation of its possibilities. I am so happy that I can play on it.

The only videos I have seen are this one and Hans Andre Stamm on this organ.

Your sounds are brilliant as usual.

Thank you, Maestro, for another fine demonstration. You play phrases of decent length so we can better appreciate the subtelties of each voice and their combinations.

Great introducion - thank you very much!

Maravilla. Wonderful

I didn't know that there's a breakdown & demonstration of this organ on the internet! Thanks for the video. I can't imagine the work that went into designing and building this.

Sounds amazing. Need to add this to my Hauptwerk setup.

What a wonderfully instrument. It must be such a pleasure and delight to play an organ as young that has such beautiful melodic and regal and harmonic tone is the blend in like silk and butter. The sound is so silky smooth and mesmerising beautifull. It almost put you in a dream state because of the beauty of the harmony and melody .

Amazing and wonderful instrument.

듣기좋아요. 마음이 차분해지는..☺😇😊😇😊😇

Köszönöm Szépen!

아...정말 멋지다!!! Good sound!! Beautiful instrument!!!!

wonderful !!!!

Thank you Thank you Thank you for this beautiful video. Some peace in this insane world.

What a joy to listen to and what an organ! I have an idea about the Vox Humana: In a description of the organ I read that the Vox Humana is permanently coupled to the Hohlflöte of the Oberwerk. So maybe one has to pull both stops? And about the Flöte Travers: I think it's actually a harmonic flute like Cavaillé-Coll's Flute harmonique. That would explain why it sounds more like a 4' but is mentioned as 8' because it has the length of an 8'.

I was the 1000th like on this video!! It sounds amazing!!

Amazing organ and location.

Amazing

Blessed are the hands of those who can play a Pipe Organ, the instrument made to praise the Lord... I wish I could have this blessing too... I've never seen one in my life... P.S: I lost the heart you gave for this comment, I am sorry, I edited it and it vanished... can you give it back...? 🥺

I love your use of gapped registrations, as they add so much character particularly to quieter solo lines. Oh, they save wind! The bellows pumpers must've loved that. Seriously, I never did believe the people who claimed that gapped registrations are not authentic in baroque playing. After all, who could resist them?

Flaut travers 4 are Gamba pipes which does overblow, Flaute douce 4 is doubled: one rank stopped, the other open.

gosh he's got a really lovely haircut in this one

Vagarr. Weird name. Definitely not a Fugara, sounds more like a flute to me. According to one source, the Unda Maris on this organ is a double mouthed stop with one mouth tuned to celeste with the other. What is sometimes called a Ludwigtone today.

That organ is very famous, at least to me.

Divine Musical Beauty!

Great sound tour! You describe the pedal board as being "Radiating". It seems to me you might have meant to say "Concave" ???

That Flöte travers on the OW sounds like it’s 4’, although maybe I’m mistaken.

Great performances, Balint! A question: Do you plan to present one of these videos on the great Hildebrandt organ at St. Wenzel, Naumburg?

Cooollllll

I love Mr Karosi's demonstrations of these organs. Can someone identify the peace that he is using to demonstrate the organ In this video. Also I would like to know if there is Hauptwerk or GrandOrgue sampleset for this organ? Hope to meet Mr K. Someday when he's near New York, or New Jersey!

---> Congratulations for the great demonstration !!! A question which title has the first song you hear at the beginning of the video. ---> Complimenti per la bella dimostrazione !!! Una domanda che titolo ha il primo brano che si sente all'inizio del video

Hi, Balint. Some years ago I read an article that asked if this would be "an ideal organ for Bach". Can you tell me better your impressions of this instrument? My private pupil Antonio has a sampleset of this instrument and we remarked a special peculiarity on the Flöte travers or the Vagarr from the 3rd manual, I don't remember well, mostly at is sound emission specially if playing long notes.

I enjoyed your demonstration of this masterpiece! Did you ever figure out the issue with the Vox Humana?

I wonder if Bach ever played the 1367 Halberstadt organ. I hear it has a 32’ principal which apparently Bach liked.

German organs of that vintage wouldn't have had Barker levers. Is it quite heavy to play when coupled?

I thought most of those stops where just Ventils but it looks like there all speaking for the most part!

Would it have been one of the organs that Bach have played

Precisa de preparo físico para este órgão?

I think Hauptwerk means Great, Oberwerk means Swell and Brustwerk means Choir.

What is the name of the piece of music that was playing during the intro?

I believe in order for the Vox Humana to sound, one must first draw the Hohlflote 8

If I go to Waltershausen in the future, can I play it??

How did you get access to play this organ?

The organ works Andre stamm full

What is the pedal solo?

24:30 could you name me this piece?(if it is not your improvisation)

What is the deepest note this instrument can play?

What was that piece you played as an intro

The 32' Pousanenbass is superb! Let's swap some of the 8' flutes out for a full ensemble of reeds =)

23:14 what composition?

26:04 tutti

I thought hautbois was a french stop

この教会💒のオルガニストですか？

I hate when you improvise because you play such beautiful music that I cant buy the sheet music for.

You could play so much better without the shoes on!!!!! You can feel and control the pedals best in your stockings!!!