The largest electronic organ? not sure

[wljmrbill]

David P enjoyed your performance and the sounding of the organ..Thanks

 

[Contratrombone64]

Hi!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe_eJ60PmtM (1:30 for some dark trumpets)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9usBggyS5Nk (4:59 & 9.50) for some wicked French Trumpets.

David P

"The greatest organist" ... really, so how come I've not heard of him and what do you base your statement on? I'd be fascinated to learn, for me, there is no greatest organist as many are at the top of their league and all of whom (I hesitate to say) people who subscribe to this forum will have heard of, I'll name some of the top of my head and this is by no means comprehensive:

Olivier Latry
Marie Claire-Alain
Helmut Walcha
Jean Gillou
Dame Gillian Weir
Simon Preston
Peter Hurford
Virgil Fox

So, there is not one on the list I've supplied above that I would dare state as "the greatest" as I detest empirichal data, all to me are wonderful and equally talented.

 

[greatcyber]

Certainly quite an impressive looking and sounding organ. Makes me pine for the days (Sundays in Atlanta) when I would watch Diane Bish on The Joy of Music and her touring the world playing the best of the beasts around the globe.

 

[Soubasse]

America has some really crack organbuilders like Schoenstein, Fisk, and Lively-Fulcher.

Nice to see Mark and Paul getting a mention there - I was immensely impressed with one of their instruments (in Washington I think) when I heard a recording of Latry playing it, a magnificent (and very French) sound. I actually contacted them about building an organ for us in our cathedral down here - they were keen, but of course, our Philistine administration weren't.

The organ must be a part of the building as a whole, integrated into the acoustic space and aesthetic design of the churchbuilding.

And a hearty "Hear hear" to that! :clap:One of the things I like about our otherwise humble school chapel organ is the way it looks and sounds as though it was always always a part of the original building (even though it wasn't). But because the builder took great care in materials and voicing, it's marvellous, and it makes a genuine difference to performing on it when you can hear that from both the console or from the back of the space with someone else playing.

 

[Organ Matters]

"The greatest organist" ... really, so how come I've not heard of him and what do you base your statement on?

Hi!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9usBggyS5Nk is an organist who shines on a world scale and is recognisable by his playing.

On account of my attention to acoustic reproduction in terms of speaker design I prefer this five manual 154 speaking stop instrument to much hyped electronic instruments that bedazzle in terms of their publicised technological details and cost.

I should add that organists are very welcome to come and play at any time for fun, practice, serious rehearsal for big beast recitals elsewhere or for performance here. We get audiences who really come to enjoy the music rather than to be critical so it's a brilliant place to try things out.

There was the famous case of the mysterious "world renowned" pianist Blackbirinoff who was either pulling off a bet or rehearsing for something important wanting to avoid publicity should something have displeased his audience when his agent, one Mr Perez, announced to the owner of the Bell Vue Hotel in Alderney that he would like to perform on 20th December 1972. He was collected from the airport, arrived at the piano in full evening dress, performed impeccably, was taken to the airport and vanished into the sky - forever. His identity was never discovered.

There is a need for out of the way venues that no-one has ever heard of to try out programme for bigger things in bigger places, and that's one of the things that this instrument enables. If you're an organist who would like to do that and give great pleasure to some audiences along the way, then that's just what this instrument is for.

It's also useful to try out interesting things:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8m2ok1Hlh0
and competent in true French style
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi2pdYou-Rs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1YcEjz8Xro

Whilst size matters, this instrument is not big just for the sake of size and illusions of grandeur b- it's big to provide just that sort of versatility, to further educational activity and for exploration into areas which one cannot explore with a fixed pipe specification in equal temperament.

In using this instrument, I have in mind that it's important for electronics to be used for a specific justification and not as a mere substitute or replacement for the real thing. Far from it, electronics should be adventurous enough to be real inspirations for the real thing.

Best wishes

David P

 

[Corno Dolce]

"The greatest organist" ... really, so how come I've not heard of him and what do you base your statement on? I'd be fascinated to learn, for me, there is no greatest organist as many are at the top of their league and all of whom (I hesitate to say) people who subscribe to this forum will have heard of, I'll name some of the top of my head and this is by no means comprehensive:

Olivier Latry
Marie Claire-Alain
Helmut Walcha
Jean Gillou
Dame Gillian Weir
Simon Preston
Peter Hurford
Virgil Fox

So, there is not one on the list I've supplied above that I would dare state as "the greatest" as I detest empirichal data, all to me are wonderful and equally talented.

AAAYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! Ya forgot Daniel Roth!!!!!!!

Seriously though...I also detest empirical data, especially when rating excellent performers.

 

[Corno Dolce]

Nice to see Mark and Paul getting a mention there - I was immensely impressed with one of their instruments (in Washington I think) when I heard a recording of Latry playing it, a magnificent (and very French) sound. I actually contacted them about building an organ for us in our cathedral down here - they were keen, but of course, our Philistine administration weren't.


And a hearty "Hear hear" to that! :clap:One of the things I like about our otherwise humble school chapel organ is the way it looks and sounds as though it was always always a part of the original building (even though it wasn't). But because the builder took great care in materials and voicing, it's marvellous, and it makes a genuine difference to performing on it when you can hear that from both the console or from the back of the space with someone else playing.

Hi Soubasse,

I'm elated to hear that you have an excellent understanding of the organbuilding problematique - So many *philistinial church councils* have totally missed the boat in re to true organbuilding.

 

[Organ Matters]

AAAYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! Ya forgot Daniel Roth!!!!!!!

Hi!

And another . . . !

Best wishes

David P

 

[Corno Dolce]

My apologies to me *mate* CT64 if he feels unnecessarily browbeaten upon :angel::wave:ray:

 

[Contratrombone64]

Nah, not feeling browbeaten at all, I also didn't mention some extremely capable Australian organists for the simple fact that most Americans wouldn't have heard of them (however, this doesn't diminish their capabilities as organists). So:

Robert Ampt
Amy Johansen
Peter Jewkes
David Coburn

and they're just Sydney players, I'll come up with some from other states after some for greycell activity.

 

[Bagnew]

How about John Wells, Michael Bell, Indra Hughes etc. from down in New Zealand?

 

[Contratrombone64]

Indeed @ Bagnew, the world's full of excellent organists. From memory (and I might be wrong), Dame Gillian Weir was from N.Z. originally.

 

[Bagnew]

Indeed she was