Demonstration of the Arp Schnitger organ at St. Pankratius-Kirche in Hamburg.

[Ntalikeris666]

An interesting clip i found which i would like to share with all you here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbFo0...QaTvDN0&fmt=18

Cheers,
Nick

[Ntalikeris666]

I hope you know some german :P

[tomasitok2]

Quite nice. He speaks very clearly. I'm myself a spanish-speaker with a bit knowledge of german and understood quite a lot.

[wljmrbill]

Nice video.. could understand some as I used to sing in german in the old days..Like the sound of the organ.

[Ntalikeris666]

Thanks ;-)

[Krummhorn]

Wonderful sound ... The Arp Schnitger organs have a unique sound all there own, much like CC's.

I had two years of high school German, so I could pick out some of what the organist was saying, too.

[dll927]

Das ist sehr gut, aber Ich verstehe nicht Deutsch. (That's very good, but I don't understand German.)

It appears that place has virtually no reverberation. But such an organ says a lot about the craftsmanship and care that went into building it. I wonder how many of our modern wonders will still be around 250++ or so years from now.

[Krummhorn]

. . . I wonder how many of our modern wonders will still be around 250++ or so years from now.

I wonder, too ... at least they are still being built at a steady rate.

Wikipedia has this list of surviving Arp Schnitger organs.

[Marc]

Thanks for posting!
Visited organ demonstrations like these once in a while, always very informative.