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About LinkBacksI am not an organist but I thought this may be of interest
The Auckland Town Hall Organ has just undergone a large refurbishment see here
http://www.aucklandorgan.org.nz/
I am not an organist but I thought this may be of interest
The Auckland Town Hall Organ has just undergone a large refurbishment see here
http://www.aucklandorgan.org.nz/
Hi JHC !
I allready started fantasising myself sitting in front of the console , playin' and enjoying the full 5.000+ pipes sound...
Thanks for the link, the organ look gorgeus !
Panos
P.S. Is it possible for somone to add to this site a sample tune ?
It's a good thing you state that you are not an organist. Asking who has the "best" organ is like asking who has the "best" looks. You will get 107 answers citing 139 organs. But that Auckland organ looks like a winner.
I was just trying to be a bit humorous with the title
The Auckland Organ is a beauty, and with the loving hand of Klais it is assured a place in organbuilding history and magnificence.
It looks great, BUT...
does it sound like an English organ??
Hi there my friend, what a fabulous new organ (or at least refurbishment). I especially like the idea of the Maori pipes, if only I could hear them in all their glory.Originally Posted by J.H.C.
Also, the gravissima is interesting, shame they didn't bother building a full 64 foot stop, nevertheless, can't WAIT to hear it.
David
I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God.
—Albert Einstein.
How much does an organ depend on the company that built it?
The U. S. seems to have a number of relatively small organ builders that have probably never built a large instrument. Yet a church or whatever will zero in on a certain builder. Could it be largely over the price? And several of those small companies seem stuck on mechanical-action instruments.
There are, after all, certain characteristics that make an organ, or it wouldn't sound like an organ. How much does one company's 8' Open Diapason differ from another company's?
The fact that even people in the U. S. will go off to a foreign company seems rather interesting, Why?? Sometimes I get the feeling that certain companies have a prestige or an aura about them that seems to attract those in the "choosing" department. And most of the old-time American builders (Aeolian-Skinner, Moller) have long since disappeared.
It seems no secret, and this Auckland job seems typical, that organs get 'revised' every so often to keep up with the latest fashion. On the other hand, St. Sulpice is still basically what it was in 1862. Why do some organs never change, and others get the modernizing treatment?
I know of one Church that had a hand operated bellows organ ( I realise that is not all that rare) but the committee that runs the church replaced it with a small mod one, which seems a bit silly to me.
Must've kept the village idiot busy pumping the bellows ...
enjoyed the web site and history and info on the organ. maybe youtube will have a video of this organ one day. Thanks for link
" The essance of reproduction,to feel and re-create that which was felt and impared by the creater,does not exclude- within natural limitations-the assertion of creative power" - Dr. Hugo Goldschmidt.
I wish you the Best for each day, now and always.
Bill
It truly does look gorgeous. Would love to hear it and play it.
Not if Bath Abbey, Saint Lawrence, Jewry (City of London) and Saint John's, Smith Square are anything to go by....
It will probably be a good instrument (although if they are trying to re-create an English Romantic scheme, most of the compound stops need re-designing, and there are far too many mutations); however, the chorus reeds at Bath Abbey (for example) are now all rather similar to each other - and somewhat different from the way they sounded prior to the rebuild by Klais. I believe that the only stop which they left alone was the Solo Tuba Mirabilis.
It would be interesting to hear this instrument - but I am not expecting it to sound like the H&H at Saint Mary, Redcliffe - or King's College, Cambridge.
Pierre Cochereau rocked, man.
It is a fantastic instrument, not an 'ugly' sound on it. It does not blast the audience, so much as bathe them in sound. I may have a chance to play it later in the year (!!!!). Thomas Trotter and the Auckland Philharmonia playing Saint Saens' Organ Symphony? It was truly magnificent. The Maori Stops are nice, the Koauau is quite a nice solo flute stop, with a bit of an edge, and the pukaea is a very nice reed, like a blend between a Cor Anglais and a French Horn (Cor Francais?). The Concert I attended (Saint Saens' Organ Symphony, William Walton's Coronation March, and Poulenc's Organ Concerto - Thomas Trotter and the APO) was recorded for CD, but I don't know when it's being released. Will let you all know when I know more!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpfDDawlv8M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfj1eIaP684
2 Part interview with city organist Dr. John Wells
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