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Bellows being manually inflated, fascinating
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Soubasse
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@ David: nope, all pipes in that old dear talk properly, no dummies there. It was very pleasantly voiced for an old Dodd, especially the principals and the Claribel, the latter of which had that lovely English Victorian quality to it. One of my former teachers, originally a cathedral organist from Yorkshire once said that a well voiced Claribel should sound like "thermal underwear" 
wljmrbill
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AMEN !! Marc.
Marc
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I certainly did enjoy a (non-manual-bellows
) concert tonight: Wolfgang Scherer playing on both the little Picard-organ (1742) and the grand Agricola/Schnitger/Hinsz-organ (1482/1691/1740) in the Martinikerk, Groningen.Lots of Italian, French and German baroque treats, including the dazzling Toccata & Fugue in F-Major BWV 540.
I also did have my beer(s) afterwards.
Now I'm both filled .... and exhausted .... :grin:
Contratrombone64
Admiral of Fugues
Marc, BWV 540 is simply devine, love it! Bach was just so masterful and crafty!