When people win the lottery they're all like "I'll pay my debts, buy a house and an Aston Martin!" Screw that. If I win the lottery I'm having a full range organ built into my house and I'll only ever play it with ALL the stops open. I will level cities with my music!
Played a pipe organ (way back when in Switzerland) that had some stops disabled because the organ had shattered stained glass windows. Honestly the experience was visceral...could feel the vibrations. Electronic simulators just don't do that. Amazing experience . Began my fascination with all handmade instruments and appreciation of the amazing people who created and crafted them and those who now restore and preserve them.
@@dafyd242 There is NO REAL 128" - STOP all over the world. And only ONE Organ worldwide has a *SIMULATED* 128" - Stop. This, the world's only fully developed subcontra quinte, can be found in USA, Atlantic City, Convention Hall: *Diaphone Dulzian 42 2/3 '(ext. Of 64')* . Thus, the organ of Convention Hall is the only one able to generate an acoustic 128 '(64' + 42 2/3 '= 4 Hz differential tone to C).
My parish church organ is WAY WAY too big for the church. If you're sitting in certain acoustical sweet spots, the lower stops will give you heart palpitations. That said, they only play our organ at full power twice a year. Easter and Christmas. You can always tell when we have a guest player because they scare themselves the first time they play at the beginning of the introit and studder a few notes. lol
This may be apocryphal but a friend of mine from Texas says he was there when it happened. Many years ago a small church congregation in east Texas got a new pipe organ, but they are tricky to install. They had a parishioner who was an engineer. He agreed to install the organ and to get the pipes all hooked up. But the guy was not a specialist in pneumatics. They got it ready, installed some new decor, and fired it up. The moment the organist kicked in a 32' pedal stop and hit a particularly low note, the brand new stained glass windows flew out of their frames, pretty much in unison, because they didn't include a way for the pressure from the big pipes to leave the inside of the church. Little pipes? Not a problem. Big pipes? HUGE problem.
The organ at the Methodist Church I go to is medium large organ 2800 pipes 40 ranks and it's a Reuter Organ. I know It can get loud if the organist let it loose I asked asked her before to blow the roof of the church because I never heard one get loud in person she said it's to loud so she plays more conservative.
I know a former Lutheran teacher that was teaching at some place and they were tearing down the church. He asked the church what they were going to do with the pipe organ. They said junk it, but if you want it, take it. So now this guy lives on the old family farm and has a working pipe organ in it that he got for the hauling. That doesn't happen every day.
Unfortunately what usually happens in cases such as this is a good many organs coming available simply end up in landfills. There are more organs being disposed of than there are people capable and willing to cart them off and find places to put them.
Considering how hard it is to install and maintain a pipe organ, I'd love to be that guy. I mean jeez pipe organs are expensive so it's like giving away a perfectly good Rolls Royce.
I used to turn pages and pull stops as a child and one of the most exciting sounds in the world is the "woomph" noise of all the stops being pulled when the full organ button is pressed. The anticipation is unbelievable. :-)
THAT would be a great job! I'm new to organ (a lifelong pianist) and I didn't realize that children were used for stops (I knew about the bellows, back in the day). I just assumed another adult who could both read and follow the score and REACH the stops easily would be wanted.
My church's organ recently got its lowest pipe in working order, and the thing makes the balcony shake. The organist panicked and avoided the note until he could take a look at the pipe.
It is amazing that a pipe organ at full force will not hurt your ears, but an electric imitation will have the congregation running out the doors if it is too loud.
Because no matter how good it initially sounds, the electronic version has a digital roughness and artificial nature to it (however imperceptible) that people can't stand to hear for a long period of time. It's not hard to find research reports about MP3 music being much more fatiguing to listeners than analog recordings for this very reason.
Well, technically, the Grand Auditorium organ at the Atlantic City Convention Hall does have 128' resultant. It has a real (not a resultant) 64' stop, a diaphone in the lower registers and a dulzian in the upper registers (the ear can't discern the break at such low frequencies). The rank can be selected as either a diaphone or a dulzian, but the same pipes play either way. The kicker is that it also has a 42 2/3' "Dulzquint" stop, derived from the same rank.
The output end of that 64' pipe is over three feet across. A person can *easily* crawl inside (the top is a 90 degree bend to horizontal because the building isn't tall enough)
The pitch length theoretically required to attempt a resultant 256’ pitch is not 84-2/3’ but 85-1/3’ paired with the 128’ stop. From a practical point of view at those pitches a pipe that’s 8 inches short won’t be considered out of tune, especially since the pitch would be imperceptible to human ears.
"Bottom c" of a 128' flue pipe, either open or stopped would require an interior sq. ft. area roughly the size of a run-of-the-mill bedroom and require a languid about 18 inches thick and could only be reasonably made via "2 by 4" construction materials and techniques. I've worked on or with 5 pipe organs with 32' open flues of solid wood construction. The walls of these pipes at C1 are 2-1/2" thick, straight-grain Fir without a single knot. The arborcide accompanying the building of the 32' stops referred to would have been a horrific sap-curdling event. The organist was accompanying the Eucharist in a R.C. church. Could the stops introduction mid way through be considered an act of *mass* destruction?
I played a Rodgers Fuffatti years ago that had 3 separate 32'. I could time the resulting balcony guard rail vibration into my piece. It was TOTALLY awesome! It would also vibrate the sliding door windows down below. Goodness, the power trip was unmatched!! And the sound of toe stud General #10 depress for full organ. That sound of all the stops being drawn. My oh my!! Nothing compares.
The thing that gets me about this parody series is less about the joke being made, more the sheer majestic beauty of the improvisations that we hear throughout them!
I was 8 years old when my father built the holy shrine of Fatima (Portugal) organ whichhad a 32' stop, with wooden. Iwas told that he was forced to "kill" her by setting the air inlet at a minimum level. The priest wanted to test the full power, but my father denied as a low pitch pipe like that would have had a dangerous effect on the great church glass windows. The priest asked to try, the max: 7 windows out of sixteen fell: non one was in the church as it was night!
One late evening, I sat praying at the Capelinha and all alone enjoying the organist rehearse. It seemed like a private concert. After midnight the organist attended by a guard, lifted the statue of Our Lady of Fatima from its pillar, reverently carrying her into the tiny chapel building for the night. It was a very touching scene. God reward your father who built the Basilica Shrine organ, endlessly giving praise to God with music, an aid to worship. Gracas a Deus!
I didn't even know they made a register that low; I thought 32' was the max. I heard 32' played on a couple of organs (different locations) and even that I found impressive & hard to believe; you not only heard it, you literally felt it, right in your chest-cavity. I can only imagine what it must be like to hear this thing in a live performance.
No 128' ranks exist in the world. This is actually 128'' (inches). 32' IS the standard maximum for a typical organ. However, two (and ONLY two) organs in the world have been built with a 64' rank. One in Sydney, Australia, and the other in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
@@abdullaharif6455 Apparently you didn't watch the video. That much is obvious. I for one am not going to argue facts with a willfully-ignorant individual who refuses to even acknowledge the evidence even when it is literally before him, and who apparently chooses to simply pull things out of his own arse & claim them as fact.
The Curtis Organ in Irvine Auditorium at U of Penn has several 32' ranks. The bottom C on the pedal diapason takes a couple of seconds to achieve its resonant sound. The movie audience (1974) didn't perceive, notice, grasp that 15 second low pitch rumble introduction, until the high pressure trumpet pipes sounded for the Also Sprach Zarathustra theme. This was played on the Curtis Organ to introduce the 2001 Space Odessey movie. Richard Strauss' piece is written in C Major so it was easy to eyeball the orchestra score to transcribe for the organ. The timpani part was played on the lower C & G pedals. Everyone cheered. What a trip! It was nice to blow the dust out of the high pressure, seldom used trumpet stop (has it's own booster blower)
There are many of these dangerous organs nowadays, most of there locations are kept secret but rest assured the vibrations can cause incredible damage and often goes completely undetected. Organs need to be put on a national database with strict security in place. Even turning up the home organ can cause problems. Please be careful.
This reminds me of "Sould Music" by Terry Pratchett: "The moan of the organ took on a more urgent tone. He raised his hands. He hesitated. He lowered his hands and pulled out all the rest of the stops, including the twelve knobs with ‘?’ on them and the two with faded labels warning in several languages that they were on no account to be touched, ever, in any circumstances."
"and the two with faded labels warning in several languages that they were on no account to be touched, ever, in any circumstances" I love the 'logic' behind including such a destructive feature in a pipe organ. Makes as much sense as having a button in a nuclear plant whose sole purpose is to cause a meltdown.
Thanks so much for posting this! On the Hammerwood Park organ which Hugh Potton likes to play I'm now experimenting with a 64' and 128' sounding stop. It's really wild and very terrifying if drawn alone without the full organ above it? The console has had a button for a little while labelled "Self Destruct" . . . but not connected to anything. Soon it will be! Thanks so much for inspiring us with this video!
Wind pressure is what's measured in inches. Most organs run on 3-5", the loudest stop in the world runs on 100", with 15-25" being typical for that organ. 100" results in volume somewhere between a jackhammer and a jet engine.
There are plenty of organs with 64 s. Most are mitred, meaning bent or shaped to fit in the building. Many still are stopped or "gedeckt" which by stopping a pipe you by means of wave dynamics double the resonating length of the pipe. Few such as the us's national cathedral I believe and several other large cathedrals have true full ranks of 64' pipes straight to the ceiling and as wide as large garbage cans. Amazing.
There are two organs on the entire planet with a 64' pipe. Two. The Midmer-Losh organ possesses a unique stop in the organ world, the 64-foot Diaphone-Dulzian in the Right Stage chamber (Pedal Right division), one of only two true 64-foot stops in the world. (The other 64-foot stop is the Contra-Trombone reed stop in the Sydney Town Hall Grand Organ.[11]) The stop is unique, because it is a reed/diaphone hybrid. The Diaphone-Dulzian's low-C pipe is 59 feet (18 m) in length, weighs 3,350 pounds (1,520 kg), and produces a frequency of 8 Hz,[11] a tone that is more felt than heard; the sound of the vibrating pallet is described as "a helicopter hovering over the building". The pipe stands upright for about 40 feet (12 m), the remainder is mitered (turned) towards the Right Stage chamber's grill, like an upside-down L. All pipes taller than 32 feet (9.8 m) are designed in this manner. The two lowest pipes (CCCCC and CCCCC#) are fed by a single, dedicated 8-inch diameter wind line, operating on 35 inches of pressure. A second identical wind line feeds the remaining pipes. Note that you can't hear 8hz as a note per se, it literally sounds like a chuffing helicopter by itself, you can find the video where they demonstrate this. Best used with other shorter stops. In reality, it's mostly useless. A 128' stop would be less than useless, a prop, nothing more.
In the theatre organ at Organ Stop Pizza restaurant in Mesa, AZ (USA), there is actually an "earthquake" stop in the special effects section. It activates the low C and C# on the 32' (full length) diaphone pipes. When it is done, you can actually feel the building vibrate!
Does ANYONE know where the full original video/audio file of the hymn and improvisation may be found? (if there is one.) Obviously not by the same person that made this particular video... haha!
I used to have a subwoofer with an 18" EV speaker in a 17 cu ft box, crossed over to 15" EV lower mids at 60hz, 6.5 upper mids and tweeter, all tri-amped. Probably would hit 32Hz. My synthesizer had a great sampled pipe organ patch and it really rattled the house!!! I actually got to play a pipe organ at Mackie Auditorium on the CU campus, as I had befriended the Dean of Organ Music. Unnnnn...believable!!!
When I practiced Max Reger's Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue in d minor on a University's organ, the 32' reed and Principle caused a piece of plaster to fall from the ceiling.
+Fireblaze 133 No. Another organist and I were the only ones present. Just glad it did not hit anyone. (Likely *would have been more injurious than my playing.* )
***** Would love to see the huge 32' Diapason pipes at Atlantic City. Do they also have a 64' stop? I prefer LIVE acoustics and bright shiny mixture stops which make organ music glorius.
Did anyone else notice that his sign is for the 128 INCH stop and not the 128 foot stop? Using the double quotes " is for inches. A single one (like an apostrophe) is for feet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_(unit)
Back around 1979-81,Iwent to the reunion concert of the Noisy Blues,at the legendary Richfield coliseum in Ohio. Their encore was Nights In White Satin. The last notes the keyboardist played,he nailed it .The coliseum had concrete floors and steps,but the note and volume played scared the crap outta me.The whole building trembled. But damn,..the concert was stupendous !!!!!
The label says 128". A double inverted comma indicates inches, feet are abbreviated as a single inverted comma, so 128 feet would be written 128'. 128 inches is 10ft 8in, not bad considering most big cathedral organs bottom out at 16ft or 32ft. They may have bigger stops, but they don't actually have pipes that long, it's achieved by combining smaller pipes.
which church is this? i remember being at salisbury cathedral before they repaired the corkscrew effect in the central tower, and it was forbidden to play any 64' and even some 32' depending on piece
Imagine. This could be called "Tuba Apocalypticus" or "Vox Satana"... lol The flashing red light warns "Engaging this stop will usher in the Apocalypse"
LMAO! I should ask you to use it to bring down my neighbour's house. He hasn't returned my hammer I lend him about 6 months ago and now he's even got my electric drill.
Just a technical note: the length of an organ pipe has no direct relationship to loudness. The world's loudest pipe set is the Grande Ophecleide (16 foot) stop of the Atlantic City (NJ) convention hall Midmer Losh. The second loudest pipe set is in St. Bartholemews Episcopal Church in New York City. (Guiness Records)
I remember a tv show from years ago that involved a pipe organ that caused a ceiling to collapse. I think it was one of those crime/detective shows, can't remember exactly. But it was based on real incidents where the vibrations from church and movie theater pipe organs (back before the advent of "talkies") would cause cumulative damage to the ceiling and walls, sometimes leading to the plaster falling down during a performance.
One evening, outside St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague: it's closed, but someone is testing the organ inside, at maximum volume.... it sounded like the Dies Irae.
I think there is a serious message here; sometimes we organists are so hungry for a big, bigger, BIGGEST sound that we are almost willing to destroy ourselves and everybody else for it!
The lowest human hearing goes is 16hz and more likely 20hz for most people. So routing the sound from the 128' pipe to my headphones can have no perceivable effect. I suppose people can feel it in their guts if the intensity is high enough.
Extremely low frequencies are often used in movies to create a sense of unease, you don't hear it but you feel it. Not sure why you would want a church organ to have that effect though
@Daedalus00000 Quite correct as far as I know, except... I believe there are more than two 64' stops in the world. I believe you can achieve the same effect with what I think is referred to as a stopped 32' arrangement. That is, the length of the pipe is effectively doubled by stopping the top of the pipe, blocking it. I thought that St. Bart's in NYC had a 64' stop.
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When people win the lottery they're all like "I'll pay my debts, buy a house and an Aston Martin!" Screw that. If I win the lottery I'm having a full range organ built into my house and I'll only ever play it with ALL the stops open. I will level cities with my music!
Quite right. 32' reed through the ceiling into the floor above. Open the windows, maximum power!
You're a hero among mere mortals.
Jack N 😂😂😂
Won a $500 million dollar lottery? Have a real 128 foot rank created ;)
can I come to play your organ when you win the lottery and have them built in your house?
Played a pipe organ (way back when in Switzerland) that had some stops disabled because the organ had shattered stained glass windows. Honestly the experience was visceral...could feel the vibrations. Electronic simulators just don't do that. Amazing experience . Began my fascination with all handmade instruments and appreciation of the amazing people who created and crafted them and those who now restore and preserve them.
i think that the feeling comes from the fact that 128' stop moves an incredible amount of air. can't do that with speakers
@@dafyd242 There is NO REAL 128" - STOP all over the world.
And only ONE Organ worldwide has a *SIMULATED* 128" - Stop.
This, the world's only fully developed subcontra quinte, can be found in USA,
Atlantic City, Convention Hall: *Diaphone Dulzian 42 2/3 '(ext. Of 64')* .
Thus, the organ of Convention Hall is the only one able to generate an acoustic
128 '(64' + 42 2/3 '= 4 Hz differential tone to C).
My parish church organ is WAY WAY too big for the church. If you're sitting in certain acoustical sweet spots, the lower stops will give you heart palpitations. That said, they only play our organ at full power twice a year. Easter and Christmas. You can always tell when we have a guest player because they scare themselves the first time they play at the beginning of the introit and studder a few notes. lol
This may be apocryphal but a friend of mine from Texas says he was there when it happened. Many years ago a small church congregation in east Texas got a new pipe organ, but they are tricky to install. They had a parishioner who was an engineer. He agreed to install the organ and to get the pipes all hooked up. But the guy was not a specialist in pneumatics. They got it ready, installed some new decor, and fired it up. The moment the organist kicked in a 32' pedal stop and hit a particularly low note, the brand new stained glass windows flew out of their frames, pretty much in unison, because they didn't include a way for the pressure from the big pipes to leave the inside of the church. Little pipes? Not a problem. Big pipes? HUGE problem.
The organ at the Methodist Church I go to is medium large organ 2800 pipes 40 ranks and it's a Reuter Organ. I know It can get loud if the organist let it loose I asked asked her before to blow the roof of the church because I never heard one get loud in person she said it's to loud so she plays more conservative.
I know a former Lutheran teacher that was teaching at some place and they were tearing down the church. He asked the church what they were going to do with the pipe organ. They said junk it, but if you want it, take it. So now this guy lives on the old family farm and has a working pipe organ in it that he got for the hauling. That doesn't happen every day.
That's the coolest thing I've ever heard. I'd sure love to play it.
Bet it was a big job to put all those pipes back together.
Unfortunately what usually happens in cases such as this is a good many organs coming available simply end up in landfills. There are more organs being disposed of than there are people capable and willing to cart them off and find places to put them.
Considering how hard it is to install and maintain a pipe organ, I'd love to be that guy. I mean jeez pipe organs are expensive so it's like giving away a perfectly good Rolls Royce.
@@brunsmip And like a Rolls Royce, a big pipe organ can be a "white elephant"; a rather burdensome gift for the recipient.
Now i'm building the 256'
Good luck you wouldn’t be able to hear it but you would feel the rumble
@@heleneardleytaylor25 You will have terrible bowel problems. Don't do it!
Ein Abbohrhammer wäre billiger
Death by beautiful music has to be one of the best ways to die.
Random user #74652819 when I die, I want to hear Forest Green (my favorite hymn tune)
The premise is hilarious, but I'd really love hearing the whole performance. It's the best sounding Salve Regina I've found on the intertubes.
''intertubes'' 🤣
I used to turn pages and pull stops as a child and one of the most exciting sounds in the world is the "woomph" noise of all the stops being pulled when the full organ button is pressed. The anticipation is unbelievable. :-)
THAT would be a great job! I'm new to organ (a lifelong pianist) and I didn't realize that children were used for stops (I knew about the bellows, back in the day). I just assumed another adult who could both read and follow the score and REACH the stops easily would be wanted.
The warnign sign, flashing light and deep *THUNK* of machinery as the stop is pulled out make this video perfect XD
Wtf the building is just fell
And the auxiliary nuclear reactor kicked in...
My church's organ recently got its lowest pipe in working order, and the thing makes the balcony shake. The organist panicked and avoided the note until he could take a look at the pipe.
in the beginning should be "Handel with care" xD
OMG this made my day
Take my like and go.
But that isn’t how you spell handle
And I know you mean handle as in a handle on a door
It’s actually spelled Handle
@Legend of the Blue Macerator Händel. It's because englisch has no ä
It is amazing that a pipe organ at full force will not hurt your ears, but an electric imitation will have the congregation running out the doors if it is too loud.
Wonder how it affects pace-makers?
@@e.conboy4286 it probably will give u a heart attack
Because no matter how good it initially sounds, the electronic version has a digital roughness and artificial nature to it (however imperceptible) that people can't stand to hear for a long period of time.
It's not hard to find research reports about MP3 music being much more fatiguing to listeners than analog recordings for this very reason.
Well, technically, the Grand Auditorium organ at the Atlantic City Convention Hall does have 128' resultant. It has a real (not a resultant) 64' stop, a diaphone in the lower registers and a dulzian in the upper registers (the ear can't discern the break at such low frequencies). The rank can be selected as either a diaphone or a dulzian, but the same pipes play either way. The kicker is that it also has a 42 2/3' "Dulzquint" stop, derived from the same rank.
The output end of that 64' pipe is over three feet across. A person can *easily* crawl inside (the top is a 90 degree bend to horizontal because the building isn't tall enough)
For best results the organist should have pulled the 84 2/3' Resultant Bass as well.
yeah. make a nice acoustic bass.
Unfortunately, the next stop up was a 16' principal
The pitch length theoretically required to attempt a resultant 256’ pitch is not 84-2/3’ but 85-1/3’ paired with the 128’ stop. From a practical point of view at those pitches a pipe that’s 8 inches short won’t be considered out of tune, especially since the pitch would be imperceptible to human ears.
The combination of both stops would have precipitated utter loss of bowel control.
True, but you certainly could feel it, couldn’t you!
"Bottom c" of a 128' flue pipe, either open or stopped would require an interior sq. ft. area roughly the size of a run-of-the-mill bedroom and require a languid about 18 inches thick and could only be reasonably made via "2 by 4" construction materials and techniques. I've worked on or with 5 pipe organs with 32' open flues of solid wood construction. The walls of these pipes at C1 are 2-1/2" thick, straight-grain Fir without a single knot. The arborcide accompanying the building of the 32' stops referred to would have been a horrific sap-curdling event.
The organist was accompanying the Eucharist in a R.C. church. Could the stops introduction mid way through be considered an act of *mass* destruction?
Lmao
LOL!
Very cute!
Uhh, more like an Act of Mass Inspiration.
Maybe an act of mass incontinence?
I played a Rodgers Fuffatti years ago that had 3 separate 32'. I could time the resulting balcony guard rail vibration into my piece. It was TOTALLY awesome! It would also vibrate the sliding door windows down below. Goodness, the power trip was unmatched!! And the sound of toe stud General #10 depress for full organ. That sound of all the stops being drawn. My oh my!! Nothing compares.
Ruffatti, F.lli Ruffatti, Padua, Italy👍
This is hilarious! It amazes me how many commenters don't realize this is a joke. (Gorgeous improv on Salve Regina, BTW.)
I never knew the pipe organ society would get into memes lmao
The thing that gets me about this parody series is less about the joke being made, more the sheer majestic beauty of the improvisations that we hear throughout them!
This was absolutely hilarious!!! 😂. I died when the danger light came on. I miss old TH-cam, back when people had a sense of humor.
I was 8 years old when my father built the holy shrine of Fatima (Portugal) organ whichhad a 32' stop, with wooden. Iwas told that he was forced to "kill" her by setting the air inlet at a minimum level.
The priest wanted to test the full power, but my father denied as a low pitch pipe like that would have had a dangerous effect on the great church glass windows. The priest asked to try, the max: 7 windows out of sixteen fell: non one was in the church as it was night!
WHAT?!
Wow
One late evening, I sat praying at the Capelinha and all alone enjoying the organist rehearse. It seemed like a private concert. After midnight the organist attended by a guard, lifted the statue of Our Lady of Fatima from its pillar, reverently carrying her into the tiny chapel building for the night. It was a very touching scene. God reward your father who built the Basilica Shrine organ, endlessly giving praise to God with music, an aid to worship. Gracas a Deus!
That deep big THUNK when he pulled it had me dead right away🤣🤣
I didn't even know they made a register that low; I thought 32' was the max. I heard 32' played on a couple of organs (different locations) and even that I found impressive & hard to believe; you not only heard it, you literally felt it, right in your chest-cavity. I can only imagine what it must be like to hear this thing in a live performance.
Wooosh
64
No 128' ranks exist in the world. This is actually 128'' (inches). 32' IS the standard maximum for a typical organ. However, two (and ONLY two) organs in the world have been built with a 64' rank. One in Sydney, Australia, and the other in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
@@abdullaharif6455 Apparently you didn't watch the video. That much is obvious. I for one am not going to argue facts with a willfully-ignorant individual who refuses to even acknowledge the evidence even when it is literally before him, and who apparently chooses to simply pull things out of his own arse & claim them as fact.
@@MrPGC137 No I am telling the truth. This video was meant to be a joke. No actual 128' ranks exist in the world. This is 128''.
The Curtis Organ in Irvine Auditorium at U of Penn has several 32' ranks. The bottom C on the pedal diapason takes a couple of seconds to achieve its resonant sound. The movie audience (1974) didn't perceive, notice, grasp that 15 second low pitch rumble introduction, until the high pressure trumpet pipes sounded for the Also Sprach Zarathustra theme. This was played on the Curtis Organ to introduce the 2001 Space Odessey movie. Richard Strauss' piece is written in C Major so it was easy to eyeball the orchestra score to transcribe for the organ. The timpani part was played on the lower C & G pedals. Everyone cheered. What a trip! It was nice to blow the dust out of the high pressure, seldom used trumpet stop (has it's own booster blower)
I just love the thud you hear as he pulls it out. It's like it's saying "i am here"
There are many of these dangerous organs nowadays, most of there locations are kept secret but rest assured the vibrations can cause incredible damage and often goes completely undetected.
Organs need to be put on a national database with strict security in place.
Even turning up the home organ can cause problems.
Please be careful.
Really? Why not make a big pipe just vibrating on its own? Making an organ is a waste of time
@@lampoilropebombs0640 How about a duplicate of the 64 foot stop from the Boardwalk Hall Auditorium organ?
Can I ask why these are so dangerous?
slow mazda but speakers don't physically resonate that sound at high pressure they only push it.
Lmao clearly you know nothing about organs kid.
This reminds me of "Sould Music" by Terry Pratchett:
"The moan of the organ took on a more urgent tone. He raised his hands. He hesitated. He lowered his hands and pulled out all the rest of the stops, including the twelve knobs with ‘?’ on them and the two with faded labels warning in several languages that they were on no account to be touched, ever, in any circumstances."
"and the two with faded labels warning in several languages that they were on no account to be touched, ever, in any circumstances"
I love the 'logic' behind including such a destructive feature in a pipe organ. Makes as much sense as having a button in a nuclear plant whose sole purpose is to cause a meltdown.
Watched this video as a child when I started learning how to play piano and organ. It's still funny today 9 years later. Cheers!
lol love how they put a big "DANGER" sign next to the 128 foot stop!! Epic musical trolling.
Great sense of humor! I envy the acoustics of that nave!
"Built on a rock the Church shall stand,
Even when steeples are falling ..."
Talk about a performance that brings that house down! This was so funny. Thanks, I needed this! ;)
Thanks so much for posting this! On the Hammerwood Park organ which Hugh Potton likes to play I'm now experimenting with a 64' and 128' sounding stop. It's really wild and very terrifying if drawn alone without the full organ above it? The console has had a button for a little while labelled "Self Destruct" . . . but not connected to anything. Soon it will be!
Thanks so much for inspiring us with this video!
But the little sign says 128”
“ is inches
‘ is feet
That means this is a 128 inches, not feet. That makes for a small earthquake.
Wind pressure is what's measured in inches. Most organs run on 3-5", the loudest stop in the world runs on 100", with 15-25" being typical for that organ. 100" results in volume somewhere between a jackhammer and a jet engine.
@@KingdaToro They probably had to update it TBH. The 128 ft pipe is a really dangerous pipe cause it's super low.
There are plenty of organs with 64 s. Most are mitred, meaning bent or shaped to fit in the building. Many still are stopped or "gedeckt" which by stopping a pipe you by means of wave dynamics double the resonating length of the pipe. Few such as the us's national cathedral I believe and several other large cathedrals have true full ranks of 64' pipes straight to the ceiling and as wide as large garbage cans. Amazing.
There are two organs on the entire planet with a 64' pipe. Two. The Midmer-Losh organ possesses a unique stop in the organ world, the 64-foot Diaphone-Dulzian in the Right Stage chamber (Pedal Right division), one of only two true 64-foot stops in the world. (The other 64-foot stop is the Contra-Trombone reed stop in the Sydney Town Hall Grand Organ.[11]) The stop is unique, because it is a reed/diaphone hybrid.
The Diaphone-Dulzian's low-C pipe is 59 feet (18 m) in length, weighs 3,350 pounds (1,520 kg), and produces a frequency of 8 Hz,[11] a tone that is more felt than heard; the sound of the vibrating pallet is described as "a helicopter hovering over the building". The pipe stands upright for about 40 feet (12 m), the remainder is mitered (turned) towards the Right Stage chamber's grill, like an upside-down L. All pipes taller than 32 feet (9.8 m) are designed in this manner. The two lowest pipes (CCCCC and CCCCC#) are fed by a single, dedicated 8-inch diameter wind line, operating on 35 inches of pressure. A second identical wind line feeds the remaining pipes.
Note that you can't hear 8hz as a note per se, it literally sounds like a chuffing helicopter by itself, you can find the video where they demonstrate this. Best used with other shorter stops. In reality, it's mostly useless. A 128' stop would be less than useless, a prop, nothing more.
That "thunk" when that knob gets pulled is so satisfying
What an experience it must be to hear that organ. . .
beautiful!!! compliment for the improvisation upon "salve regina"!!
This is Maestro Forte's dream come true.
In the theatre organ at Organ Stop Pizza restaurant in Mesa, AZ (USA), there is actually an "earthquake" stop in the special effects section. It activates the low C and C# on the 32' (full length) diaphone pipes. When it is done, you can actually feel the building vibrate!
The "Danger" is that it COULD POSSIBLY cause structural damage to the building itself because of the vibrations. It does not cause earthquakes. DUH!
Wooosh
It’s bound to force earthworms out of the ground.
Does ANYONE know where the full original video/audio file of the hymn and improvisation may be found? (if there is one.) Obviously not by the same person that made this particular video... haha!
I've been wanting to know for years
Lok for Salve Regina organ improvization. Maybe you might find something. Don’t know cos I haven’t tried.
That was epic. Had me laughing for a bit, there.
I absolutely love the sound and feel of the pipe organs. They make the hair on my arms stand up.
I used to have a subwoofer with an 18" EV speaker in a 17 cu ft box, crossed over to 15" EV lower mids at 60hz, 6.5 upper mids and tweeter, all tri-amped. Probably would hit 32Hz. My synthesizer had a great sampled pipe organ patch and it really rattled the house!!! I actually got to play a pipe organ at Mackie Auditorium on the CU campus, as I had befriended the Dean of Organ Music. Unnnnn...believable!!!
When I practiced Max Reger's Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue in d minor on a University's organ, the 32' reed and Principle caused a piece of plaster to fall from the ceiling.
+Fireblaze 133 No. Another organist and I were the only ones present. Just glad it did not hit anyone.
(Likely *would have been more injurious than my playing.* )
***** Would love to see the huge 32' Diapason pipes at Atlantic City.
Do they also have a 64' stop?
I prefer LIVE acoustics and bright shiny mixture stops which make organ music glorius.
That would have been funny as hell! Seeing someone get beaned with a chunk of plaster! Videoworthy!
It was funny. Luckily no one was there. But I might have caused a serious injury.
Robert Gift there's a fugue to that piece?
I would LOVE to hear the entire Salve Regina on this organ, plus the iproviational postulude afterward. Is it available anywhere to listen to?
... that is absolutely HILARIOUS! I love it , thanks for posting
was für eine wunderbare weise zu zeigen wie stark der Klang von so einer Orgel sein kann super umgesetzt
Salud.....
That music cured my cancer.
Did anyone else notice that his sign is for the 128 INCH stop and not the 128 foot stop? Using the double quotes " is for inches. A single one (like an apostrophe) is for feet.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_(unit)
Good catch! Makes a huge difference.
Back around 1979-81,Iwent to the reunion concert of the Noisy Blues,at the legendary Richfield coliseum in Ohio.
Their encore was Nights In White Satin.
The last notes the keyboardist played,he nailed it .The coliseum had concrete floors and steps,but the note and volume played scared the crap outta me.The whole building trembled.
But damn,..the concert was stupendous !!!!!
The label says 128". A double inverted comma indicates inches, feet are abbreviated as a single inverted comma, so 128 feet would be written 128'. 128 inches is 10ft 8in, not bad considering most big cathedral organs bottom out at 16ft or 32ft. They may have bigger stops, but they don't actually have pipes that long, it's achieved by combining smaller pipes.
😂😂 😅 😅 😅 Help, I fell from the chair because of laughing, this is a really dangerous register 👍👍👍 😁😁😁 😎 😎
which church is this? i remember being at salisbury cathedral before they repaired the corkscrew effect in the central tower, and it was forbidden to play any 64' and even some 32' depending on piece
There are no 64’ stops in Salisbury Cathedral or anywhere in Europe, I might be wrong about Europe but I sincerely doubt it.
funny video. The Salve Regina before the mass destruction is very nice
Это одно из лучших музыкальных произведений. Автора не узнал. Но это теперь и не важно...
Давай, парень!!! .-)))
This is a 10-2/3' (128"), not 128'.
It's beautiful....is there a recording of the entire piece as done by ya? :)
I've never enjoyed buildings falling more :')
Now THAT'S a mighty organ!
Imagine. This could be called "Tuba Apocalypticus" or "Vox Satana"... lol
The flashing red light warns "Engaging this stop will usher in the Apocalypse"
Organmogeddon? Tubemageddon? Pipemogeddon? Tubepocalyps Now? The Killer Pipe Dream? Gone with the Wood Winds?
Trompette en Sonic Boom
Boom and Circumstance
Diapason 2020
Pairs well with the 16' Bombardment and 32' Counter Bombardment. Normally you'd only use those stops during the 1812 Overture.
128' pipes does not exist. People should not take this seriously, please.
+John Bon Strangle XXVII I think the red "danger" light indicated that quite well.
oh yes they do... perfect weapon against terrorists
Ryan Hallengren 😂😂😂
+HarpothekidRS and if you didn't notice that, the stop was called "Earthquake". You'd pretty much have to be an idiot to believe this...
It is a joke...
Well doggiepo I'm so happy we have your splendid advice. Thank you so much
Awsome. How many organist wish their console had this stop. I love it :)
So... anyone realised it's a joke yet?!
It would certainly put the wind up us
@pianoboy lol
nope lol
Yep I knew it's a joke
Damn!! all the books and everything all around me just fell to the floor.
yes, it should be heared only with headphones
lol, lame danger stick and fake red right. weird sense of humor.
Such a good organists meme!
Despite being 15 years old this vid is still amazing!
This is exactly how we could live without laxatives!
LMAO! I should ask you to use it to bring down my neighbour's house. He hasn't returned my hammer I lend him about 6 months ago and now he's even got my electric drill.
LOL. It's cheaper to just buy new hammer and drill though the organ would bring more satisfaction.
Funny stuff, especially the warning light. There are a lot of other organs out there suffering from stop envy.
Just a technical note: the length of an organ pipe has no direct relationship to loudness. The world's loudest pipe set is the Grande Ophecleide (16 foot) stop of the Atlantic City (NJ) convention hall Midmer Losh. The second loudest pipe set is in St. Bartholemews Episcopal Church in New York City. (Guiness Records)
00:51 - ...let the Voice of God be heard throughout all the World, unto all the Nations thereof...
man id love to hear that live.....
Now that's some heavy metal bringing down the house!
Awesome Organ!! Love the 128*
*JUSTICE IS SERVED!!!!*
The ebonies finally get to be the _BIG_ keys!!!
The older organs had ebony as the majority of the keys.
Bravo! No comments !!!
I remember a tv show from years ago that involved a pipe organ that caused a ceiling to collapse. I think it was one of those crime/detective shows, can't remember exactly. But it was based on real incidents where the vibrations from church and movie theater pipe organs (back before the advent of "talkies") would cause cumulative damage to the ceiling and walls, sometimes leading to the plaster falling down during a performance.
Hahaha!!! I love it.
The instrument really sounds nice...
I now know how I'm going to demolish my neighbor's house. Thank you.
Супер органная музыка фантастик ! ! ! 😀😎😋🙂
The red flashing light is hilarious! Good laughs.
This is the equivalent of god talking to you, directly.
Yep, DoD has contracted the best organ builders to build one of the 128' Earthquakes in the Naval Academy organ so the soldiers can practice...
Oi! That would turn the peoples' internal organs to jelly! >.
Ha, organ vs organs
Volvo B10M my internal organs love pipe organs. They are Vitamin O! The best medicine.
there is more than 10 years seeing this video and people don't realized it's a joke....
One evening, outside St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague: it's closed, but someone is testing the organ inside, at maximum volume.... it sounded like the Dies Irae.
What's the name of music being played??Anyone?
The piece in the beginning is "Salve Regina"
I clearly saw two apostrophes there; does that mean it is only 128 inches long? :|
Yes they fucked up there. Love the flashing red light though!
Interesting. That would be a 10 2/3' which could be used along with a 16' to create a 'resultant" 32' in practical fashion.
The crux of the bisquet IS the apostrophe
as long as we're doing musical jokes...
That's a sturdy church to survive the vibrations; I was surprised that nothing baroque
Love this!
I think there is a serious message here; sometimes we organists are so hungry for a big, bigger, BIGGEST sound that we are almost willing to destroy ourselves and everybody else for it!
So to get the frequency, I just divide into the speed of sound? So we get 8.497 Hz?
Yes.
The lowest human hearing goes is 16hz and more likely 20hz for most people. So routing the sound from the 128' pipe to my headphones can have no perceivable effect. I suppose people can feel it in their guts if the intensity is high enough.
Extremely low frequencies are often used in movies to create a sense of unease, you don't hear it but you feel it. Not sure why you would want a church organ to have that effect though
For the sense of awe and majesty. We're talking frequencies only audible to whales and rutting elephants.
I was laughing while houses are collapsing and people are dying. I don't feel ashamed.
this is funny, i appreciate the effort you put in to making this video.
@Daedalus00000 Quite correct as far as I know, except... I believe there are more than two 64' stops in the world. I believe you can achieve the same effect with what I think is referred to as a stopped 32' arrangement. That is, the length of the pipe is effectively doubled by stopping the top of the pipe, blocking it. I thought that St. Bart's in NYC had a 64' stop.
I'm not sure a 128' stop would be even audible, you'd just shit your pants...
Great, I couldn't stop laughing! :-)
"Earthquake", and then those buildings getting destroyed. LOL
And "Shür International Pictures", lmao.
Now that's the REAL Kings of Instruments.
I just got the Electro Harmonix Brown Note guitar effects pedal for my birthday I can't wait to plug it in!