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Danke für das Lob!

you are right. Thank you!

Thanks for listening. You might be right about the tempo 😉

Das war damals die Uraufführung. Einen Monat bevor ich es bei dir gespielt habe.

Ich schätze, sowas muss man leben. Das macht man nicht mal so eben.

Bravissimo, Herr Kantor Fasang!

😉😉

@richardharrold9736 I like Flentrop organs a lot, but I was referring to the great Arp Schnitger organ at the Jakobikirche!

@richardharrold9736 No! The pipes was removed from the organ, almost at the last minute, and saved! The organ has been rebuilt twice, the first time, in the 1950s (I think), with new mechanical action, new windchests, and a new case. That work gave the keyboards a very hard (stiff) action, but many great organists made recordings on it anyway! More recently, it has been lovingly restored (at enormous cost, I've heard), and is now magnificent in every way, including the action.

St. Michaelis in Hamburg

Yeah, I wondered, what made this video so popular, and I also think, that it has much to do with the appearance. One can see everything and the church itself is beautiful as well..

The left hand plays the notes of the Westminster bells at the beginning, hence the name.

@@HenrikBergpianorganist and throughout. In fact Vierne misunderstands organ builder Willis's musical notation!

Yeah, there is! It takes a while gonget used to…

It's just temporary, at least it didn't use to be there. The people of Hamburg are insanely proud of their harbour and love everything maritime!

For a local special occasion

thats not a bad thing!

@@christianlongobardi5438 i guess we’ll have to agree to disagree on that one.

It’s a mechanical connection why would you be surprised to occasionally hear them?

How could it be a mechanical organ, when the console is situated across the nave from the organ pipes? For it to be a mechanical instrument, the console has to be attached below the pipe work.

@@bbbdco that organ has two consoles, one attached below the pipe work and one across the nave. It’s just like the organs at St. Eustache and St. Clotilde in Paris. In some videos at St. Eustache when Ospital is playing at the remote console they cut to the gallery console and show the keys moving with no one at the console.

Thank you! I am not that tall, but to be honest, I used the wide angle camera to film this, and the picture is slightly distorted, what makes my arms and legs look longer than they are. From this main console I can play three separate organs at once: the main organ, built by Steinmeyer, not in the picture is the Marcussen organ, which is located right of the camera position and finally there is an auxiliary organ in the ceiling. For the carillon I eventually used all three organs.

@@paulfasang8637 You mention 3 organs, but I see a fourth, in the center of the picture. (Or is that the Marcussen?)

@@a55b47 that organ, the so called Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach organ, is not playable from the main console. It es a rather small, but also very nice mechanical organ

@@paulfasang8637 I visited the fantastic web page . . . the place is an organist's paradise!

True, more similar to english “town halls”. I’m from Rome and I must confess you that I would gladly give up a few hundred square meters of frescoes in order to have a church with similar big and stunning instruments

@@andreacosta74 Can you imagine what the massive Cavaillé-Coll instrument planned for St. Peter's Basilica would have sounded like? Sadly, it never got built and life in Rome's largest church continued without fanfare.

@@stthomasmore4811 yes, I imagine it perfectly, but unfortunately it would be the least suitable place. San Pietro is a deserted, extraterritorial temple, which since 2001 can only be accessed partially and in a row following obligatory routes ... the same thing for the Cathedral of Rome which is S. Giovanni in Laterano. In reality there are many neo-Romanesque, neo-Renaissance, neo-Gothic churches built between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that would lend themselves to hosting large organs but unfortunately there is no interest and desire neither from the civil authorities nor from the ecclesiastical ones ...

@@andreacosta74 That's because new large organs are so expensive. They co$t beaucoup dollar$$$$$.......

Your comment together with your username got me my laugh for the day. Thanks :)