newbye from Italy - Pipe Organ lover

[dombedos]

Bye to everyone! I discovered this great communication tool.
There are a lot of many intersting arguments and threads and probably I cannot review all of them in a short time..

I'm a Pipe organ entusiast and, with some friends, I joined a committe in order to make real our old dream: have a great, monumental organ inspired to ancient Francois Dom Bedos rules.. now this dream is becoming real, and I invite you to visit our site

http://www.organosandomenicorieti.it

And I hope if someone of this forum could visit us really to enjoy with our future great organ.
Our purpose is absolutely no profit and we want organize music festivals, organ festivals, masters activities and so on...

See you later, guys!
Please, replay me for your impressions about our "mad" organ projects..

[NEB]

Welcome aboard.

[Corno Dolce]

Buon Giorno Signore DomBedos,

Welcome aboard the Starship MIMF where everyone is a star. Please do make yourself feel right at home. Congratulations on what looks like to be a magnificent instrument.

Ciao,

Corno Dolce

[dombedos]

Thnk you, sirs, for your warm welcome..
I'm sorry for my coarse english, so you would be patient when you will read my replies (or my attempts to English-traslate our site!

[jvhldb]

Welcom. I don't mind your English, it's better than my Italian.

[Krummhorn]

Greetings, dombedos

Welcome to Magle International Music Forums.
Do keep us informed of updates on this new instrument. The casework is beautiful.

[musicalis]

Hi , Wellcome.

I have visited a part of your site. NIce project.
I love pipe organ too. When I was 15 years old, I have had the pleasure to read the two volumes of Dom françois Bedos de Celles. Not a copy, but the original books, in the "bibliothèque municipale" of Bordeaux.
Now, retired, I am a composer for pipe organ music. You can see/hear some of my works in the Magle pipe organ forum or in my web site.
I'll be very glad to work a little with you.

Friendly
Jean-Paul

[dombedos]

Thank you to everyone for your welcome, again.
Dear Jean Paul, I read only a italian traslation of Art du Facteur d'Orgue, and I find it really "modern"; infact the chapters about Organ "final testing" documents and how to write a good project are really interesting.
We are very lucky to have in Italy a rare Organ Builder, Bart. Formentelli; he works absolutely following the rules explained on DomBedos, with a reasonable price...
The work is complex : he prepare every pipe by manual stain "processing", refining the stain parts with hammer, and finally assembly it with rebuilded ancient tools.
He seems quite "mad" on today industrial society, but the Organ builded from this artist sometimes seems ancient!
Obviously, this organ is more difficult to be played, but performing music 5-keyboard full mechanical organ with original french pedal will be a great experience for any
musicians!
Many organist are writing to me in order to organize concerts.
I'm happy to answer everyone and to organize any kind of event on our Dom Bedos Organ, depending of financial situation.. :-)
Bye !

[methodistgirl]

What a beautiful organ! I love to look at big pipe organs like that.
This one is so beautiful. I love pipe organs because I play one to
learn how to play a pipe organ. The one I play is rather small in
comparison. I have a picture of it under my name. By the way,
Welcome to the forum!
judy tooley

[dombedos]

Hi, Judy! Believe me.. playing a full-mechanical organ it is a wondeful experience. The italian-french organ builded Formentelli make a warm and ancient Pipe tuning.. so the founds and fliutes are soft and hot, really fantastic.. the Organ sound is ancient, the reeds are strong.. the only way to understand it it is playng and hear it.
Playng a great classical mechanical organ is "strange". The console is near the Positiv, and the player cannot be seen from the "assemblea" or from church visitors.. You are inside the sound!

To be a feeling comparison, I could say : playng a electrical-traction organ with "industrial" pipes vs playing a mechanical-well tuned organ is quite as : I'm riding a "scooter with automatic gear" vs "I'm riding a Ducati 1098 superbike with open exaust pipe"...
Sorry if this comparison is quite hazardous.. but the feeling is very similar.. after 1/2 hours electrical organ playng, I want go down from it.

Thank you again for your welcome
I cannot see well the organ photo under your name. If I click over it , a impressive building appears!

Bye from Center Italy, guys!

[Muza]

Hello and Welcome,

What are some places in Italy that you would recommend going to?

Thanks

[dombedos]

HI, Muza!
Please, tell me what do you prefeer visit! Historical organs, Historical cities & places, Sea & Isles and so on.. Italy is little but it is really filled by many and many interesting places.
It is not so easy answering you :-)

[Frederik Magle]

Much belated welcome to Magle International Music Forums, dombedos!

Glad to have you aboard and all the best wishes for your exciting organ project! Please do keep us posted on the development.

Best regards,
Frederik

[dombedos]

Thank you, Frederik.
It's a pleasure talking togheter about pipe organ world.
The Dom Bedos organ adventure now is coming to be really hot. We think that in April some trucks will arrive in Rieti, and we will have a hard work in order to "download" many thousands parts of out organ

If you have seen on our site the five keyboards layout, you can understand what would is my whish to play it..

You will be informed about all news!

Bye

[methodistgirl]

Hi, Judy! Believe me.. playing a full-mechanical organ it is a wondeful experience. The italian-french organ builded Formentelli make a warm and ancient Pipe tuning.. so the founds and fliutes are soft and hot, really fantastic.. the Organ sound is ancient, the reeds are strong.. the only way to understand it it is playng and hear it.
Playng a great classical mechanical organ is "strange". The console is near the Positiv, and the player cannot be seen from the "assemblea" or from church visitors.. You are inside the sound!

To be a feeling comparison, I could say : playng a electrical-traction organ with "industrial" pipes vs playing a mechanical-well tuned organ is quite as : I'm riding a "scooter with automatic gear" vs "I'm riding a Ducati 1098 superbike with open exaust pipe"...
Sorry if this comparison is quite hazardous.. but the feeling is very similar.. after 1/2 hours electrical organ playng, I want go down from it.

Thank you again for your welcome
I cannot see well the organ photo under your name. If I click over it , a impressive building appears!

Bye from Center Italy, guys!

That impressive building that appears is the church that houses the organ.
This is my church!
judy tooley