the "largest" organ in China

[Contratrombone64]

Goodness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBFtgzmxunY

[methodistgirl]

I have seen this video before. Isn't it amazing though? I'm still
partial with the one at my church. I get to see it everytime I'm there.
judy tooley

[Krummhorn]

Beautiful ... 121 ranks, 88 voices ... built by Rieger Orgelblau in 2005.
The stoplist can be viewed from the Reiger Orgelblau site.
Click on "organs" at the top right, then click on "ctry" to resort the list by country, then scroll down to about the 22nd entry, and click on "Schanghai Oriental Art Center" ... voila.

It's also listed on Martin Doering's site, but requires a paid subscription to view ..

[greatcyber]

That was really very cool. Here's an organ that I got to play once.

To hear it: http://youtube.com/watch?v=9tBGEFfvbzc

Stephen

http://travel.webshots.com/photo/152...81821592gbxcDk (picture close up)

[methodistgirl]

Wow what an organ! That one is really big.
judy tooley

[greatcyber]

At that time, it was perhaps the most impressive instrument I had ever seen.

Stephen

[Contratrombone64]

Wow what an organ! That one is really big.
judy tooley

Nice organ eh Judy?

[Soubasse]

Finally got around to viewing this and what a marvelous clip, thanks CT. The commentary was a bit OTT in places, but the overall look at the construction and especially the detail about the remote console was great to see. Even on the computer speakers, it sounded quite fine.

It took me a long time to get used to Rieger because for years, I'd only had the Festival Theatre one here to go by and that one sounds dreadful. You have to work quite hard to get it sounding acceptable for a lot of the repertoire. So either Rieger have improved their voicing over time or the one they built here was a lemon.

My favourite Rieger was in St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, which is very easy to play, fills the building extremely well and sounds wonderful doing so. There is a YT clip here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1AhUQyxRnc (not me) but the camera mic does it no justice unfortunately.

Looks as though a visit to Shanghai will be on the books now!

[Corno Dolce]

I believe that this Klais organ is the largest organ in China:

http://www.orgelbau-klais.com/m.php?tx=75