The tallest pipe of the recently built 128' stop is about 41 meters high and goes from the basement, where the air is kicked into the pipe with an unimaginable pressure, to just under the roof :-)
To hear and feel it properly there needs to be one complete since wave plus a bit, so a minimum of 257 feet from the top of the pipe to the back wall. Any less and the sine wave is incomplete.
128' = 4 hz (good for earthquake simulation). 64' = 8 hz (comparable to some heavy equipment or large jet rumble). 32' = 16.35 hz (useful to add "weight" to some music). 16' = 32.7 hz (Also Sprach Zarathustra intro).
The usual human hearing range starts at 20Hz although it is claimed some can hear down to 12 Hz. Below that we feel the vibration as the building shakes with the sound producer, usually an organ pipe this low. As a child I once played the bottom C and C# of an organ pedal board using the longest stop (32’ probably). It produced a wonderful low sound with slowish beat frequencies and sounded like an approaching WWII propeller powered bomber!
@@bobdear5160 I often see this "starts at 20 Hz", as if it's a cut-off. In practice, the transition from hearing to feeling isn't a definite frequency.
It is neither. That title goes to the organ in Atlantic City's convention hall with 30,000 pipes, 7 manuals, and a REAL 64' stop. This organ has a 32' reed that you're hearing.
we ordered for our little chapel a 256´ "Abismal" (Principal) and a 512´ "Bladk Hole" (reed). Also gathering funds for a 1024´ "Big Bang" stentorphone tuned slightly undertone to be a companion of the "Tsunami Maris" (string) of the same pitch already installed when the organ had only 4 stops years ago.
I seem to recall that the Librarian of the Unseen University of the Discworld does not consider an Organ 'complete' unless it too has a 512-foot thunder pedal, and a 1024-foot Earthquake stop....
Surely your little chapel has better thing to waste money on. This sort of nonsense is not even funny. If you have so much money why don't you buy a real pipe organs that can play something beside jokes.
Doesn't matter how big is the pipe, this is very nice performance of latin gregorian chant hymn "Salve regina" followed by organ improvisation of the tune
It has the droning, atmospheric power of a Moog Taurus bass pedal... (check out e.g, Mike Rutherford in the second half of Can-Utility and the Coastliners, by Genesis, which depicts a storm at sea. :)
A couple years ago at Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, when we were doodling around on the big organ, a guy was playing notes on the 64' Diaphone. I added the 42 2/3' to get the 128' effect. It sounded like one of those huge turbines in a power plant. We don't hear that in this clip. What I heard here was more like a 32' Posaune.
Yes, we know all about wavelengths and audibility limits, but these clips are for fun, and in the process, some magnificent organ sounds result. Bravo!
I was told that the two towers of the cathedral in Cologne, Germany, were supposed to become pedal towers, housing the pipes of the 128' and 256' stops.
I fully agree. The improvisation is really great as well as this beautiful organ. Please, post more improvisations with this organ, its plenum is touching my soul ;-).
Well...all the banter about a 128' ft/ stop is very interesting if you're into the fine points of such an arguement. I'm interested in the music...does anyone know if this music has been put into print and available? Thanks.
I wasn't aware of any organ in the world with a true 128' stop. Those are usually electronic and more for effect than sound. IIRC the only organs with true 64' stops (not electric) are the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City and the organ at the Sydney Opera House.
Anything bigger than 32' can't actually be heard as a note- it would just be felt as a disconcerting rumble - doubt that any church has more than 32' stops, to avoid threatening the fabric of the building...
This cathedral is sorely in need of some Renaissance Class artist or artists for the rather plain ceiling and walls! It is so lacking in ornamentation that the barrel and groin vaulting looks rather ordinary, of which it isn't for it was revolutionary when it was first developed! It resembles St. Mary Cathedral in Lansing, Michigan with its lack of ornateness! As for placing organ pipes sideways due to lack of height, however, this doesn't look like it is necessary in this place! Also, what someone referred to length of the church, I believe that they meant width, because, either way, 128' of pipe would fit! Now, at St. Agnes Church in Fowlerville, we have the 16' pipes laying on their sides, because the church measures 48' × 109' and is about less than, I believe three stories tall at its (former) peak at the end where the organ is built in, and the organ chamber wasn't always the full width of the end of the church! As for a 128' C pipe, you could attain this with your four 32' or eight 16' pipes if you were pressed for space and on a budget, or like others say, do the resultant method of a perfect fifth lower in pitch by using an odd size mutation addition to a common pipe footage!
Aaron Parker. Thanks for letting us know that the improvisation is in print...I would like to know, as well, where I can get it. Too bad that are so few organs available for one to play with the quality of the one in the video. Thank again.
Yes, it is fake, if a person would stand i a organ pipe, the airflow will on some way be disturbed. Another thing to menison, is that this "128 pipe" is clearly sounding like a reed but the picture is showing a diapeason.
@tubamagna16 The man standing on the languid has me a bit upset. He's lowering it with his weight and possibly causing quick speech. He's also in mortal danger of slipping through a nick, passing through the foot and toe and getting trapped in the 9 foot diameter flexhaust tube from the pipes' offset chest/blower/regulator. But there's likely other missing organ voicers down there-he wouldn't be lonely and they'd have plenty to argue about.....
This is a very good point. The bottom octave of a 32' stop hovers at the very boundary of the natural human hearing pitch range; anything below that is certainly not audible, only perceptible. The vast majority of 64' stops in the world are acoustically produced, because a real stop won't have differences from acoustic one obvious enough to most people to warrant one. The same logic applies to an 128' stop -- if ever it is needed, an acoustic version is good enough. The awesome power of the pedal voices in this video are probably from 32' stops; the fundamental of a 64' or 128' stop will probably fail to be represented in an ordinary recording, and its upper harmonics will co-incide with 32' and other octave-pitch stops.
Yes there wont be much frequency differences in a 64" stop .. the C goes to abut 8 hertz... that means from down 16 hertz of a 32 foot stop ..that's 16 hertz down to 8 hertz is only 8 hertz difference for 12 notes.. what do you mean by acoustically produced>> ? there are some stops called resultant... whci means 2 pipes of different frequency sound together to produce a lower frequency... because to build such tall pipes would be very expensive... also you need the required height in the building///
+resultant64 Resultant 64' and 32' stops are more common than actual full length stops. The reason being is its cheaper, uses less space, and it achieves the same effect.
I think, it's a 128", but the lowest pipe hasn't to be 128" long. There are many ways to get a 128", maybe with 2 stops of smaller pipes, tuned to cause an interference, what sounds similar to a 128" or simply foldback, that in the lowest octave is a 64" stop.
How can all that would come from only 10 fingers! Why didn't the show the organ itself? I would love to see it. I would be scared to play it being so huge!
If i am ever in Augsburg, Germany, I would really like to try out this organ just for the sheer enjoyment of it! In fact, I used to be really intimidated by keyboard instruments, but now I cannot find enough time to really get to learn to play well! I am a sort of novice hobbyist who owns two keyboards and really need to find the time and energy to play them!
Yes, the lower pipe passes through the roof of the church, isn't it astonishing ? For more the pitch of such a pipe could not be heard by a human. A 128' stop could only be feel.
@Thepianoorganist Pipe builders often "telescope" metal resonators so there's no need to solder them. They have to be built accordingly and it greatly simplifies what could otherwise be a difficult installation.
I'm not interested in a 128 ft. stop, that does not happen...I'm interested in the music. Has this organ improvisation on the Salve Regina even been written down? The church is a Carmelite church in Germany, Augsburg, I think. If not, it's time someone did.
Compare the sound of this organ with the sound of the bombardes of the organ of Albi Cathedral in France. One can hear a demonstration of them on TH-cam. The sound is awesome.
Not hearing it does not necessarily mean not *feeling* it. Actually, powerful infrasounds are used in some "horror houses" to create a feeling of anxiety. I am talking about "not tuned" infrasounds; possibly, if the infrasounds were tuned, the feeling could be a strong "animal" reinforcement of the feeling caused by the melody. Anyway, I am really curious about this stop, is that for real, minibeb? If so, could you post pictures of the rank?
You're gonna need a bigger church.
That could take another 1000 years :)
To hear and feel it properly there needs to be one complete since wave plus a bit, so a minimum of 257 feet from the top of the pipe to the back wall. Any less and the sine wave is incomplete.
128' = 4 hz (good for earthquake simulation). 64' = 8 hz (comparable to some heavy equipment or large jet rumble). 32' = 16.35 hz (useful to add "weight" to some music). 16' = 32.7 hz (Also Sprach Zarathustra intro).
Impressive explanation and comparisons. Now I can picture their sounds in my head.
The usual human hearing range starts at 20Hz although it is claimed some can hear down to 12 Hz. Below that we feel the vibration as the building shakes with the sound producer, usually an organ pipe this low. As a child I once played the bottom C and C# of an organ pedal board using the longest stop (32’ probably). It produced a wonderful low sound with slowish beat frequencies and sounded like an approaching WWII propeller powered bomber!
But I don't know if I should think that this is real🤔
@@bobdear5160 I often see this "starts at 20 Hz", as if it's a cut-off. In practice, the transition from hearing to feeling isn't a definite frequency.
I could dig some 4 Hz headphones.
The pipe organ may be the largest, and most expensive instrument in the world, but it's also the most beautiful instrument in the world.
It is neither. That title goes to the organ in Atlantic City's convention hall with 30,000 pipes, 7 manuals, and a REAL 64' stop. This organ has a 32' reed that you're hearing.
+Shining Armor In Sweden in a northen city caled Piteå in a concert hall caled Studio Accusticum we have a big organ with a 64´Infrabass
Infrabass is a resultant stop, which doesn't count
+Igor Svedberg Even thought it says 64', it doesn't mean it is.
Chris9017 means the pipe organ generically, not this organ in particular.
we ordered for our little chapel a 256´ "Abismal" (Principal) and a 512´ "Bladk Hole" (reed). Also gathering funds for a 1024´ "Big Bang" stentorphone tuned slightly undertone to be a companion of the "Tsunami Maris" (string) of the same pitch already installed when the organ had only 4 stops years ago.
lol
😂😂😂
ahahahahahahahah GENIUS !!!
I seem to recall that the Librarian of the Unseen University of the Discworld does not consider an Organ 'complete' unless it too has a 512-foot thunder pedal, and a 1024-foot Earthquake stop....
Surely your little chapel has better thing to waste money on. This sort of nonsense is not even funny. If you have so much money why don't you buy a real pipe organs that can play something beside jokes.
The big pipe "hertz" my ears 4 times per second.
my ears frequency pain
DyingHertz do people joke about it frequently?
Nice pun
4 hertz
Doesn't matter how big is the pipe, this is very nice performance of latin gregorian chant hymn "Salve regina" followed by organ improvisation of the tune
That was SCARY!!! You can't hear it, but you most certainly can FEEL it, all the way to the bottom of your bones.
Imagine- this would eliminate the need for laxative.
The Municipal Pipe Organ has a 128' Resaultant when you combined the 64' and the 42-2/3' stops together.
How are we gonna hear a 128' stop on our home audio equipment?
You are not going to hear it. No one alive can hear it. Tis is an expensive joke. a terrible waste of money
You may feel it and maybee see the vibration at your speakers. Human can't hear that deep tones.
Paradigm PS-1000 sub-woofer. You'll not hear it exactly but feel it.
It’s more of a feeling.
With a 200 inches neodynium subwoofer with a power supply for itself only (to really feel the destructivity of that dangerous stop) LOL
God damn! That is the most powerful bass rumble I've ever heard. Couldn't imagine hearing that in person..
It has the droning, atmospheric power of a Moog Taurus bass pedal... (check out e.g, Mike Rutherford in the second half of Can-Utility and the Coastliners, by Genesis, which depicts a storm at sea. :)
A couple years ago at Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, when we were doodling around on the big organ, a guy was playing notes on the 64' Diaphone. I added the 42 2/3' to get the 128' effect. It sounded like one of those huge turbines in a power plant. We don't hear that in this clip.
What I heard here was more like a 32' Posaune.
Absolutely awesome beautiful
Thats because this is just a joke lol
Yes, we know all about wavelengths and audibility limits, but these clips are for fun, and in the process, some magnificent organ sounds result. Bravo!
I was told that the two towers of the cathedral in Cologne, Germany, were supposed to become pedal towers, housing the pipes of the 128' and 256' stops.
Any stop of that size is just awesome when played, you dont so much hear it as feel the whole building shake.
I fully agree. The improvisation is really great as well as this beautiful organ. Please, post more improvisations with this organ, its plenum is touching my soul ;-).
Mighty. What a growl...
These videos are awesome!! Please make some more!!!
You wont hear it but youll most definitely feel it.
The wonderful power this pipe organ has is just amazing. I sure wish we had those over here in South Florida.
No need... you have hurricanes.
It would put Florida back underwater 😂
Not SOMEWHERE! Augsburg!
cawa it is in Augsburg
cawa It took me a while to search for which Church has that Organ
If only we could hear the full piece, it reminds me of the old days...
They definitely went for baroque when they commissioned this behemoth!
How did they ship that pipe? UPS ground service? I can imagine the UPS truck driving down the road with that pipe sticking out of the back.
David James 😂😂😂😂
I t was not ship . It was fly. Like a missile . With a GPS .
You know how they transport wind turbine blades? I think they would use the same method but with the pipes instead.
If ups ships to Germany that would be more of a miracle
M
Wow ! Thanks for posting !
I voted you back up to even. You are 100% correct and the people taking this seriously or think its real crack me up more than the video.
Justin
This pipe organ can able to shake the church and it's sounds so powerful its sound is 1,000,000 DB
I guess between my tinnitus, deaf in one ear, and using my laptop speakers I won't be able to hear much of this.
Thank you! Remembered it was the Salve Regina then figured it must be an improvisation, which is a shame because I like it! Thanks again!
That is a monster of a stop
"Hey sir, your pipe organ has a nice church!"
Well...all the banter about a 128' ft/ stop is very interesting if you're into the fine points of such an arguement. I'm interested in the music...does anyone know if this music has been put into print and available? Thanks.
Where can I buy a copy of this improvisation on the Salva Regina?
I wasn't aware of any organ in the world with a true 128' stop. Those are usually electronic and more for effect than sound. IIRC the only organs with true 64' stops (not electric) are the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City and the organ at the Sydney Opera House.
Beautiful hymn. 128' is a joke. It's a 32'. Organ sounds fantastic.
Can you post any more of the Salve Regina improvisation minibeb? It sounds really good.
I would love to hear “Iron Butterfly” do the organ solo on this beast.
Whatever it is, it still beats guitars and tambourines.
Beautiful church and organ.
All Hail!!! May this play as I enter into heaven (if there is one).
Anything bigger than 32' can't actually be heard as a note- it would just be felt as a disconcerting rumble - doubt that any church has more than 32' stops, to avoid threatening the fabric of the building...
Washington national cathedral has a 64’ bombarde it’s fantastic. Always use at the ending of Widor or Gigout
My favourites folder is full of them.
A good solo for a huge victory
The "Salve Regina" became extremely festive!
This cathedral is sorely in need of some Renaissance Class artist or artists for the rather plain ceiling and walls! It is so lacking in ornamentation that the barrel and groin vaulting looks rather ordinary, of which it isn't for it was revolutionary when it was first developed! It resembles St. Mary Cathedral in Lansing, Michigan with its lack of ornateness! As for placing organ pipes sideways due to lack of height, however, this doesn't look like it is necessary in this place! Also, what someone referred to length of the church, I believe that they meant width, because, either way, 128' of pipe would fit! Now, at St. Agnes Church in Fowlerville, we have the 16' pipes laying on their sides, because the church measures 48' × 109' and is about less than, I believe three stories tall at its (former) peak at the end where the organ is built in, and the organ chamber wasn't always the full width of the end of the church! As for a 128' C pipe, you could attain this with your four 32' or eight 16' pipes if you were pressed for space and on a budget, or like others say, do the resultant method of a perfect fifth lower in pitch by using an odd size mutation addition to a common pipe footage!
Aaron Parker. Thanks for letting us know that the improvisation is in print...I would like to know, as well, where I can get it. Too bad that are so few organs available for one to play with the quality of the one in the video. Thank again.
@ProfRikk The vibrations with the amount of pressure felt when air is forced through the pipe would be amazing. Might feel it in your chest
Sounds in this frequency range are known as rhythm.
@buffinator1000 Yes, you are correct. The speaking length of the pipe is 64', but the conical "foot" of the pipe would push it to 72' long.
It's a nice thing to fantasize for. But it isn't there or remotely necessary. The effects achieved in this video are done by a 32'.
really want to be taken to these cool places!!!!!
I just assumed everyone was gonna shit their white robes when the Brown Noise kicked in...
The picture at 0:31 (not with the guy) is fake too?
Search up "Augsburg Church Organ".
+William Griebenow Thanks! (so, it's a fake)
Yes, it is fake, if a person would stand i a organ pipe, the airflow will on some way be disturbed. Another thing to menison, is that this "128 pipe" is clearly sounding like a reed but the picture is showing a diapeason.
So fake it's painful, in fact it's so painful that you'd think it's fake.
Something like this could jar loose a bowel movement.
Mark Hall The Brown Note?
Gdigger10 Exactly. It's termed the "U.P.S." frequency, and causes mere humans to express the Power of Brown!
Köstlich :-) Weiter so...
Wunderbarrrrrrrrrr und Ausgezeichnettttttttttttttt!!!!!!!!!! Ich liebe und genieße alles!!
@tubamagna16
The man standing on the languid has me a bit upset. He's lowering it with his weight and possibly causing quick speech. He's also in mortal danger of slipping through a nick, passing through the foot and toe and getting trapped in the 9 foot diameter flexhaust tube from the pipes' offset chest/blower/regulator. But there's likely other missing organ voicers down there-he wouldn't be lonely and they'd have plenty to argue about.....
Thats not 128 ' its 32 reed...
There are just 2 or 3 in the world with a real 64' pipe .
This is a very good point. The bottom octave of a 32' stop hovers at the very boundary of the natural human hearing pitch range; anything below that is certainly not audible, only perceptible. The vast majority of 64' stops in the world are acoustically produced, because a real stop won't have differences from acoustic one obvious enough to most people to warrant one. The same logic applies to an 128' stop -- if ever it is needed, an acoustic version is good enough.
The awesome power of the pedal voices in this video are probably from 32' stops; the fundamental of a 64' or 128' stop will probably fail to be represented in an ordinary recording, and its upper harmonics will co-incide with 32' and other octave-pitch stops.
Yes there wont be much frequency differences in a 64" stop .. the C goes to abut 8 hertz... that means from down 16 hertz of a 32 foot stop ..that's 16 hertz down to 8 hertz is only 8 hertz difference for 12 notes..
what do you mean by acoustically produced>> ? there are some stops called resultant... whci means 2 pipes of different frequency sound together to produce a lower frequency... because to build such tall pipes would be very expensive... also you need the required height in the building///
+resultant64 Resultant 64' and 32' stops are more common than actual full length stops. The reason being is its cheaper, uses less space, and it achieves the same effect.
I think, it's a 128", but the lowest pipe hasn't to be 128" long.
There are many ways to get a 128", maybe with 2 stops of smaller pipes, tuned to cause an interference, what sounds similar to a 128" or simply foldback, that in the lowest octave is a 64" stop.
resultant64 not to mention there are no real benefits of going bigger than a 64' which are already inaudible in their lower register.
How can all that would come from only 10 fingers!
Why didn't the show the organ itself? I would love to see it. I would be scared to play it being so huge!
This is awesomely hilarious
Супер видео музыка фантастик ! ! ! 😎😀😋🙂
If i am ever in Augsburg, Germany, I would really like to try out this organ just for the sheer enjoyment of it! In fact, I used to be really intimidated by keyboard instruments, but now I cannot find enough time to really get to learn to play well! I am a sort of novice hobbyist who owns two keyboards and really need to find the time and energy to play them!
Is the organ in Augsburg？Which cathedral ？
Haha, love the guy inside the pipe
41 meters in length??? Then it must be a nuclear submarine!
Yes, the lower pipe passes through the roof of the church, isn't it astonishing ?
For more the pitch of such a pipe could not be heard by a human. A 128' stop could only be feel.
i felt that
@MandrakeSauvignon grrrrrrooooaaannnn. Good one!
So it was like a sort of alarm? The sound 128 gives a strong pression and the organist should be expert
holy shit! omg I want one!
@Thepianoorganist
Pipe builders often "telescope" metal resonators so there's no need to solder them. They have to be built accordingly and it greatly simplifies what could otherwise be a difficult installation.
omg just to hear the bass seriousy i was in front of a pipe organ for one of my choir concerts i was actually in front of the bigger pipes lol
where can i find a cd of improvisations with this on it and the other one on your video response?
Now we know the truth about "Havana Syndrome."
So do I stand by my reasoning-the ENTIRE point of a pipe organ is to be heard and felt.
If someone has the full version, would you please be so kind to share it?
This must've taken some serious editing to pull off
Any good commercially available recordings of this organ ?
holy crap!!!
I really was expecting the "brown" note
ive tried finding this organ online but i haven't come up with anything i want to know where specifically in germany this organ is
I imagine the fundamental of the 41m pipe is not supposed to be heard but felt.
middle-collegiate's marshall and ogletree has a 128 foot sine wave stop.
The king of the pianos is the pipe organ
*F*CK*
...odd, I've seldom seen a procession during the Salve Regina...afterwards, yes...
What a pity to fade and cut off the music before a natural end.
A 128 ft stop? That's super low, it sounds 4 Octaves lower than written.
I'm not interested in a 128 ft. stop, that does not happen...I'm interested in the music. Has this organ improvisation on the Salve Regina even been written down? The church is a Carmelite church in Germany, Augsburg, I think. If not, it's time someone did.
Compare the sound of this organ with the sound of the bombardes of the organ of Albi Cathedral in France. One can hear a demonstration of them on TH-cam. The sound is awesome.
Not hearing it does not necessarily mean not *feeling* it. Actually, powerful infrasounds are used in some "horror houses" to create a feeling of anxiety. I am talking about "not tuned" infrasounds; possibly, if the infrasounds were tuned, the feeling could be a strong "animal" reinforcement of the feeling caused by the melody. Anyway, I am really curious about this stop, is that for real, minibeb? If so, could you post pictures of the rank?
@porz83 Quite right. But there is another 64' stop in the Willis organ of Liverpool Anglican Cathedral.
Dude scary
Link and name to this performance? I want it, please!
Hold those thoughts minbeb
The church organ - the GAU-8A Avenger of the musical instrument world...
Thanks for posting
What cathedral is this grand organ located?
The organ I think was the angels way of praising the Almighty Lord, Our GOD
I wonder how many people have been gullible enough to think this actually exists!
Does anyone know what is being sung/played? I recognize it just can't put my finger on it!
Anybody know the song?
If I can make a small correction here The word July is never spelt with the letter I at the end
Pull out all the stops!
128' pipe? Man and I thought a 64' was big.