Pretty much every great house I latter 19th century and into the 20th century had a Aeolian pipe organ builded into the interior architecture so the sound came from where ever it could escape from….. e hind wall tapestries, inside false ceilings, in between walls and floors, and the sound was glorious. Whitemarsh Hall comes to mind. When the gatehouse would call the house to tell them “he just came through the gates” a mile away, a favorite tune of E.T. Stotesbury would be chosen and upon coming into the front hall the house would become the organ and roar up a happy tune and then another one, a libretto perhaps, or End To a Perfect Day.
Please publish on one of your future UTubes the chamber analysis of the entire organ. Thank you from a devoted organ fan (both classical & theater) How many ranks now?
Thanks for the message. When I published this last night, I did write a decent description regarding the current quantities of ranks. Please check out my video description! I've been thinking of putting together a video tour of the organ including the chambers you inquired about. I have to start taking some reminder notes so that I don't forget anything. So many things to include...the chambers, the unenclosed classical divisions, the mezzanine traps, the wind generators, the midi control boards, the Moller player, the Uniflex 4000, the 9-foot concert grand Steinway, and the organ console...yikes! Lastly, I need to delete my video of the console...I dont like it and I can do better. I'm going to be spending some time with the organ later this week. I'll sit down with my cousin Paul and see if we can come up with something decent to put together.
How many notes on the player organ?, the new pipes have a rank of piccolos that are the same as the ones found in European fair organs, never seen these in an organ like this before, would love to see a video of all the percussion in action.
Hi George, the keyboard (manual) is a 61 note keyboard that the player mechanism is based on. It was originally recorded on a 3 manual organ and then converted to the player roll. The old Moller player was recently upgraded with all new midi output equipment and when the roll plays, it feeds into the Uniflex 4000 which then plays all the pipes on the main organ. When the player mechanism is playing, you can also sit down at the console and play the organ and accompany the Moller Roll Player. This is great if you want to add vox humana or string sections that were not originally recorded into a roll. You can really use your imagination on all the instruments (you can play on the organ console) that can accompany the Moller roll player. I also want to compliment you on some really great vision...you nailed it...yes, you are looking at a rank of piccolos! There are 3 more ranks along-side the piccolos. If you go through some of my other videos, you can see some of the percussion instruments play. Two videos in particular that I would recommend is the Dave Wickerham video playing The Bells of St. Mary and the other video would be one with Jelani Eddington...here is a direct link to Jelani's video that I recorded. th-cam.com/video/4v5VdnLMbJ0/w-d-xo.html In this video, you will see that this was recorded several years ago before numerous pipes and percussion were added to the mezzanine.
HI Jonas, the problem (or the exciting thing) is that as new ranks are finally installed...there are more that are being purchased. What gets published today, is literally outdated tomorrow. But don't fret...I'm going to be making a video of the organ and I'll try to get some sort of rank/stop listing on the video. It may be several weeks to get it all put together and then edited.
@@JonasClark ...there isn't really a goal as far as size. The real goal is versatility with the ability to cover a wide range of sounds found in concert, acoustic, and theatre. And to answer the 2nd question you have...there isn't enough stop keys so what happens is the organist selects which stops will play certain instruments. The Uniflex 4000 is what allows the organist to use a stop tab as it's labeled, or to assign it to something else...which is in each users/organists personal profile on the Uniflex 4000.
@@scottmusic242 Duplexing! I love that. And that, to me, was the best answer: it's not about size, but rather usefulness. I'm actually surprised you don't have more than two expression chambers, or will that change?
@@JonasClark ...if you go to the 14:30 time mark in this video, you can see how the stops (and links) are assigned. th-cam.com/video/m5ir29mfsww/w-d-xo.html After watching a minute or two of the video, it might make sense how the stops are assigned. I think I am correct in saying that our organ has 455 stops to work with.
love the tuned sleigh bells..only few organs have these
Pretty much every great house I latter 19th century and into the 20th century had a Aeolian pipe organ builded into the interior architecture so the sound came from where ever it could escape from….. e hind wall tapestries, inside false ceilings, in between walls and floors, and the sound was glorious. Whitemarsh Hall comes to mind. When the gatehouse would call the house to tell them “he just came through the gates” a mile away, a favorite tune of E.T. Stotesbury would be chosen and upon coming into the front hall the house would become the organ and roar up a happy tune and then another one, a libretto perhaps, or End To a Perfect Day.
Thank you, This is my Dad's most favorite song.
"Be Still My Soul" is to be the closing hymn at my funeral. I am also a father. I guess that makes two of us at least.
Please publish on one of your future UTubes the chamber analysis of the entire organ. Thank you from a devoted organ fan (both classical & theater) How many ranks now?
Thanks for the message. When I published this last night, I did write a decent description regarding the current quantities of ranks. Please check out my video description! I've been thinking of putting together a video tour of the organ including the chambers you inquired about. I have to start taking some reminder notes so that I don't forget anything. So many things to include...the chambers, the unenclosed classical divisions, the mezzanine traps, the wind generators, the midi control boards, the Moller player, the Uniflex 4000, the 9-foot concert grand Steinway, and the organ console...yikes! Lastly, I need to delete my video of the console...I dont like it and I can do better. I'm going to be spending some time with the organ later this week. I'll sit down with my cousin Paul and see if we can come up with something decent to put together.
@@scottmusic242 Thank You. Any and all info will be appreciated. Chuck Schumacher.
How many notes on the player organ?, the new pipes have a rank of piccolos that are the same as the ones found in European fair organs, never seen these in an organ like this before, would love to see a video of all the percussion in action.
Hi George, the keyboard (manual) is a 61 note keyboard that the player mechanism is based on. It was originally recorded on a 3 manual organ and then converted to the player roll. The old Moller player was recently upgraded with all new midi output equipment and when the roll plays, it feeds into the Uniflex 4000 which then plays all the pipes on the main organ. When the player mechanism is playing, you can also sit down at the console and play the organ and accompany the Moller Roll Player. This is great if you want to add vox humana or string sections that were not originally recorded into a roll. You can really use your imagination on all the instruments (you can play on the organ console) that can accompany the Moller roll player. I also want to compliment you on some really great vision...you nailed it...yes, you are looking at a rank of piccolos! There are 3 more ranks along-side the piccolos. If you go through some of my other videos, you can see some of the percussion instruments play. Two videos in particular that I would recommend is the Dave Wickerham video playing The Bells of St. Mary and the other video would be one with Jelani Eddington...here is a direct link to Jelani's video that I recorded. th-cam.com/video/4v5VdnLMbJ0/w-d-xo.html In this video, you will see that this was recorded several years ago before numerous pipes and percussion were added to the mezzanine.
Who played for the roll?
Ninety-eight ranks!? You've VERY firmly bested Organ Stop Pizza! Is there a list of ranks published somewhere?
HI Jonas, the problem (or the exciting thing) is that as new ranks are finally installed...there are more that are being purchased. What gets published today, is literally outdated tomorrow. But don't fret...I'm going to be making a video of the organ and I'll try to get some sort of rank/stop listing on the video. It may be several weeks to get it all put together and then edited.
@@scottmusic242 Understood. How large are you hoping to make it, and are there stopkeys for everything, or will you have to do some duplexing?
@@JonasClark ...there isn't really a goal as far as size. The real goal is versatility with the ability to cover a wide range of sounds found in concert, acoustic, and theatre. And to answer the 2nd question you have...there isn't enough stop keys so what happens is the organist selects which stops will play certain instruments. The Uniflex 4000 is what allows the organist to use a stop tab as it's labeled, or to assign it to something else...which is in each users/organists personal profile on the Uniflex 4000.
@@scottmusic242 Duplexing! I love that. And that, to me, was the best answer: it's not about size, but rather usefulness. I'm actually surprised you don't have more than two expression chambers, or will that change?
@@JonasClark ...if you go to the 14:30 time mark in this video, you can see how the stops (and links) are assigned. th-cam.com/video/m5ir29mfsww/w-d-xo.html After watching a minute or two of the video, it might make sense how the stops are assigned. I think I am correct in saying that our organ has 455 stops to work with.