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acc

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Re: Registration

I must confess that I never thought about starting Bach's St. Anne on a Grand-Jeu
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- but now that you say it, it makes perfect sense!

Obviously, you're right about the "one plenum fits all" being a poor way of registering. I didn't mean to say that Bach or Buxtehude were insensitive to colours. It is a pretty safe guess to say that they did care about them - it's just that there is so little about it we actually know for sure (as opposed to the French repertoire). Do we know whether they even had clear-cut rules like the French?

Actually, that's one of the things I like so much about Harald Vogel's recordings of Buxtehude's organ works (published by MDG): the refinement in his search for colours is just amazing!
 

bonh-101

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Re: Drawknobs

My friends are curious about the drawknobs(what they look like)
and I am wanting to buy some. Where might I find some for sale(separately)?
 
Thomas Dressler

Thomas Dressler

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Re: Drawknobs

I would check first with a local organ builder. They might even have some extras laying around that they'd be willing to give you. When I was a teenager, groups would go to visit the Moeller organ company (here in the US) and they would routinely give everyone a stop knob as a souvenir. Most of us drilled holes in them to put them on our keychains. I had mine until the hole wore out.
 

bonh-101

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Re: Drawknobs

I am in a military family and I am in Italy... I don't know of any organ builders in Naples... (That speak english)..
 

giovannimusica

Commodore de Cavaille-Coll
Re: Registration

Acc,

You are a wonderful soul - I was going to write a little blurb but then a sudden case of Cerebral Flatulence struck and that which was on my mind for this thread vanished without a trace
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Therefore I left only a period in the message field.


Giovanni
 
Thomas Dressler

Thomas Dressler

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Re: Drawknobs

Hi bonh,

Are you in Italy for a specific amount of time? If you are, I'd see if you can get to see and hear some of the historic Italian instruments. I wish I could tell you where to look--perhaps someone else could tell you more. I've heard a few recordings and the ones I've heard are very nice. They are different from the typical German, French, or English (American) designs we see here in the US (for various reasons, but the most apparant one being that there are no mixture stops--all the ranks are on separate stops.) The only Italian-ish organ (I'm speaking historic now, not Rufatti) I've had the opportunity to play is one by John Brombaugh.

It would be great if you could check around and maybe even go see one and tell us about it!
 

bonh-101

New member
Re: Drawknobs

I am here for about 2 more years. If I find anything, I will certainly come here. This is the ONLY place I can talk and ask about the Organ. But I am not really sure where to look. We are in the area near Vesuvius, if fact, I can see it from my front yard!
 

bonh-101

New member
Re: Drawknobs

Everybody I contacted said that they don't sell them separatly.
I've tried Allen and Ruffati, the other link that you gave me didn't work for some reason. I don't think I'll ever find what I'm looking for. So far I haven't seen any organs other than the one in the Catherdral in Venice( I saw the organist in the loft playing and the pipes).
 

bonh-101

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Italian organ

I'm sorry, I haven't been able to get here at all, I've been studying more on the organ. I have Hauptwerk V1 and it is really nice. Oh by the way(Thomas Dressler), I know the organist at my church and she plays for and Italian church on a real pipe organ, I am going to ask to go along one time, I will tell everything that I see,
bohn-101.
 

bonh-101

New member
Re: Italian organ

This isn't much, but I was coming home with my dad. We were going down an old road and we passed by a big church. I peered inside, and I saw a large organ ( well, actually I saw the oft and pipes, but still!) it was a glimpse, but it was cool!
 
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