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I’d like that, but I haven’t seen anywhere that 765 is coming East. I think NS won’t allow them. On this ride, 765 didn’t have a safety diesel.

@@srfisher101 I get it

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Thank you. Enjoy.

It's a strange paradox of the two organs where he has appointments. Yes, Longwood is too small a space, but Wanamaker too big a space. That being said I've been to several recitals at Longwood. Although the room is almost dead without reverb, it's unusual to get to hear an organ of this size so intimately. You can hear nuances of pipe sounds you couldn't possibly hear in a place like National Cathedral, St. John the Divine, etc. And certainly not on the Wanamaker. I'd *much* rather go to a concert on this organ than mushy sounding Wanamaker. But yeah, it's a shame Dupont, with all his money, didn't make the ceiling of the concert room twice as high and made one division of the organ exposed in a pipe work case. That would have made a tremendous difference in the effect it has.

@@Salmagundiii I totally agree with your comments regarding Longwood & Wanamaker. I find Conte's recordings on the Wanamaker not that satisfying. I find mike placement has much to do with a recordings success.

@@Salmagundiii I also think that the organ is in a way small room and he said it’s not meant to be heard in the room but from out in the gardens. And also usually at Wanamaker’s he doesn’t really play it where it would sound mushy. Yes sometimes it does because it’s such a big room but I think the organ fills the space really well.

Hiya Charlie. This is the way the organ was built and this is the room it was built for. Take it as it comes, boy. Enjoy it for what it is, not what it should be.

I think the opposite. I think that he is the best symphonic organist in the world and think that his registration is amazing.

You also have to take consideration that it was recorded on an iPhone 6 so that will not be able to actually demonstrate what the organ sounds like in the room.

Hard to make such a judgement without being there.

George Murphy: Agreed!

Yes he is

Yes

The man, the myth, the legend

Yes it is. The legend

I agree, sounds like he is rushing to catch a train.

Go find a photo of the Atlantic City Convention Hall console. That makes this look tiny. In fact, that was designed to make the organ which was, at the time, the world's largest, look tiny (besides besting it in actual working size).

@@JonasClark sadly you can barely consider the Boardwalk Hall organ the largest in the world right now because of it being only about 50% playable, but hopefully soon in the future it will be 100% playable, just like it’s brother in philly

@@jakedarmstadter6943 It is the largest, whether or not it's all working. The Wanamaker Organ's official title at this time is the "world's largest fully-functional musical instrument," which is correct, but the ACCH organ is indeed larger.

@@JonasClark yes and I totally agree with that statement, but I just won’t call it the largest pipe organ in the world till it over 28,750 pipes are working

@@jakedarmstadter6943 Fair. I will because the pipes still exist.

…I think you mean tracker action organs which are the rage now. I would agree with you if you were so harsh. Churches are losing favor for way more reasons than the poor old Organist. We don’t time today to set aside for church, and we do attend, it’s for continuity and a stayed contemplation, and the new ideas and ways aren’t keeping that promise I’m afraid. So people stay away. As far as I know Peter Contre is engaged at Saint Clement Church, on Cherry St. why don’t you attend there? I so miss not living in Philadelphia anymore. I make the effort to attend church, but avoid the socializing. I pay my dues and slip away. Saint Clements is sublime though, and you might take part and worship there.

Chesterbarnes1 They don’t want her breaking it with her abusive “technique.”

Pls no, she is a disgrace to the organ world

@@wouterattheorgan why?

@@jakedarmstadter6943 butchering pieces, and playing generally too fast. Just listen to her widor toccata

@@wouterattheorgan ok, I will listen to her widor

While that is true, sometimes things happen at the last moment andi one is stuck with what they have.

Perhaps the microphone sounds bad because it is not connected to the camera; it went through the public address system. I sat in the front row and used my handheld iPhone XS, with no inputs, to video it.

Ok makes sense

The original console was built by Æolian, not Skinner. It now controls a similarly sized organ at the famous Tabernacle in Ocean Grove NJ. The second console was built by M.P. Möller of Hagerstown MD in the 1950's. The third (present) was built in 2001 in the style of the original Æolian.

The old Aeolian console was enlarged to 5 manuals and plays a big organ at a religious camp...can't remember the name. The 2nd console, on display, was done by Moller. The present console is new.

I think Peter had the look long before Felix did.

I was about to say the same thing praestant did...!

Yeah he might of had that look for a lot longer than Felix hell

I live in Downingtown that's why I'm looking at this stuff