I love the Dulciana stop. Sometimes it serves as another Diapason depending on how it's voiced 😊 Toe pistons are a Godsend when you're playing something like a piece like a toccata where all your fingers and thumbs are otherwise busy & you need a registration change but have no console assistant, especially on a larger organ with limited registration aids!
I still think I'd like another stop rather than a 16' on the manuals! Having said that, I do like an organ with Swell to Great Sub Octave - which I guess turns all the 8' Swell stops into 16' stops?! If you use the 16' stop with the 2' stop and then play it up an octave you can get quite a Baroque sound: nice for Bach. The two string stops on the Swell are great! Well done you for combining them so beautifully. As you said "Absolutely lovely" - I couldn't agree more. It was so spooky that you played "Let all mortal flesh". Our organist used that stop combination (as did I) as that melody and stops sound perfect together. The tremulant sounds a bit of a 'theatre organ' sound (very "Sale of the Century") Very well done. Another great video and a lovely organ.
Two 8ft Open Diapasons on the Great seems a bit extravagant on a small organ. I would have preferred to have a Mixture III. Having said that, it's a fine organ and obviously well loved. Nice presentation.
Nice to see such a fine organ beautifully restored. For my personal taste I'd clip the tremulant's wings somewhat... half the speed, half the pressure :) And I'll never understand the thinking behind putting a Clarinet unenclosed on the Great instead of under expression on the Swell where it can be way more useful. But there are some very beautiful stops in there, that Swell Lieblich is gorgeous. As always, thank you for posting - you pick some very nice organs to show us.
I suspect that putting the clarinet as well as the softer flute stops on the great is to compensate for not having a choir manual. The clarinet can be used as a solo voice accompanied by the strings on the swell. Likewise the 8’ flute can accompany the swell reed. On a smaller organ one doesn’t want all the solo stops on the same manual. It’s a workable compromise.
Wow, so it was rebuilt with Electric Action? My late Grandparents also lived in Yarm during the latter part of their life so I visited them quite often, until we had to move them closer to us due to Grandad's dementia, which he would pass away a year later. I never got to go in this church as it was locked everytime I passed by, but I still remember Yarm well. And if I am not mistaken, dunno if he still does, one of Iron Maiden's guitarists live here.
A very fine and well restored organ with a splendid tone which obviously does its job of accompanying the Hymn singing and Liturgy very well. I think the expense of providing so many playing aids. (Foot pistons etc) is excessive. However,In my opinion this money would have been better spent on two or three tonal changes which would have increased the versatility of the instrument. On the Great, the Piccolo be revoiced as a Fifteenth to fully complement the Diapason chorus and the introduction of a Twelfth (Probably in place of the Dulciana which sounds like a small third Open Diapason) On the Swell substitute the Bourdon by a Mixture. On the Pedal, the addition of a Reed (Trombone) At the moment the organ is mainly suitable for Romantic repertoire but somewhat limiting for the performance of baroque repertoire (J.S.Bach for instance)
Thank you for a) the demonstration and b) the link to the NPOR listing. Something which we be useful if everyone did. If you don't mind, I'll pinch that idea! Your demonstration was very thorough, perhaps you could have shown the difference between the Great Open I and Principal and Open II and Principal, and then add the Piccolo. Incidentally, that Piccolo sounds like a compromise between a Fifteenth stop and a Piccolo. This was not uncommon at the time it was originally built: builders knew that a 2' flute stop wd not be much use in helping leading the singing (the main purpose of the organ then) so, even when a Piccolo was specified they wd make it as like a Fifteenth as they dared.
Presumably the rebuild is now an electropneumatic design? I notice you don't demonstrate the shutters of the swell to see how well it changes the sound ? Anyway, a great sound to be sure and this re-build must have cost one hell-of-a lot of dollars !! I hope they have a congregation to match the outlay. Thanks again for a great video and hey, don't let the ladies intimidate you !!LOL
There were various bits I didn’t get to demonstrate…the coffee morning ladies were standing with their coats on waiting to go home…I was being intimidated by ladies again 😄 Lovely organ though and thanks for watching 👍🎹
An interesting instrument. Overall it has a nice light sound. The principal chorus sounds a bit transparent, dare I say almost string like. I assume the tracker action was removed because it was worn out. To me the tremulant needs to be slowed down. This isn’t a theatre organ! I have to wonder at the thinking behind the plethora of toe studs and pistons and lighting options.
I'm not sure about the original tracker action to be honest but I assume that will be the case. Toe pistons are certainly excessive and the lighting is just a novelty I guess. Unfortunately I wasn't able to demonstrate that - for reasons I explained 🙂👍🎹
@@OrganicVisitations I have a hunch that these toe pistons and totally unnecessary lighting was at the request and whim of an organist and the church were persuaded to fund it. This has been a story I have come across countless times.
I also don’t think that any tonal revisons have been implemented. It obviously fulfils its role as an accompaniment aid to worship and a degree of romantic organ repertoire. The absence of upper work is typical from this period.
The organ wasn’t made for playing baroque music, but to lead a worship service. It sounds great as it is.
Totally agree - but maybe a mixture on the Gt and a reed on the pedals? 👍🎹
I love the Dulciana stop. Sometimes it serves as another Diapason depending on how it's voiced 😊 Toe pistons are a Godsend when you're playing something like a piece like a toccata where all your fingers and thumbs are otherwise busy & you need a registration change but have no console assistant, especially on a larger organ with limited registration aids!
Good point, although probably too many on this particular organ for its size? 👍🎹
I still think I'd like another stop rather than a 16' on the manuals!
Having said that, I do like an organ with Swell to Great Sub Octave - which I guess turns all the 8' Swell stops into 16' stops?!
If you use the 16' stop with the 2' stop and then play it up an octave you can get quite a Baroque sound: nice for Bach.
The two string stops on the Swell are great! Well done you for combining them so beautifully. As you said "Absolutely lovely" - I couldn't agree more. It was so spooky that you played "Let all mortal flesh". Our organist used that stop combination (as did I) as that melody and stops sound perfect together.
The tremulant sounds a bit of a 'theatre organ' sound (very "Sale of the Century")
Very well done. Another great video and a lovely organ.
Thanks for your comment and agree with all you said! Hope you have subscribed 👍🎹
@@OrganicVisitations I have (for quite a while now!!)
Two 8ft Open Diapasons on the Great seems a bit extravagant on a small organ. I would have preferred to have a Mixture III. Having said that, it's a fine organ and obviously well loved. Nice presentation.
Agree with the mixture III…a few have suggested that. I would also like to have seen a reed on the pedals? 👍🎹
Beautiful sounding organ. And as always, excellently demonstrated by playing the registers one by
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Another very nice organ! Thanks for showing to us!
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Nice to see such a fine organ beautifully restored. For my personal taste I'd clip the tremulant's wings somewhat... half the speed, half the pressure :) And I'll never understand the thinking behind putting a Clarinet unenclosed on the Great instead of under expression on the Swell where it can be way more useful. But there are some very beautiful stops in there, that Swell Lieblich is gorgeous. As always, thank you for posting - you pick some very nice organs to show us.
I suspect that putting the clarinet as well as the softer flute stops on the great is to compensate for not having a choir manual. The clarinet can be used as a solo voice accompanied by the strings on the swell. Likewise the 8’ flute can accompany the swell reed. On a smaller organ one doesn’t want all the solo stops on the same manual. It’s a workable compromise.
Agree about the tremulant…not a fan of them at the best of times 👍🎹
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Sounds really good, beautiful organ, great rebuild. But.... why two Open Diapasons 8" ? Maybe a Mixture on the Great would have done it!
Totally agree! A mixture would make all the difference and a reed on the pedals perhaps? 👍🎹
Wow, so it was rebuilt with Electric Action? My late Grandparents also lived in Yarm during the latter part of their life so I visited them quite often, until we had to move them closer to us due to Grandad's dementia, which he would pass away a year later. I never got to go in this church as it was locked everytime I passed by, but I still remember Yarm well. And if I am not mistaken, dunno if he still does, one of Iron Maiden's guitarists live here.
Yes, Janick Gers lives there. It’s a nice little town, and like you, have had a hard time getting in. Worth the wait though 👍🎹
Janick Get lives there 👍🎹
A very fine and well restored organ with a splendid tone which obviously does its job of accompanying the Hymn singing and Liturgy very well.
I think the expense of providing so many playing aids. (Foot pistons etc) is excessive.
However,In my opinion this money would have been better spent on two or three tonal changes which would have increased the versatility of the instrument.
On the Great, the Piccolo be revoiced as a Fifteenth to fully complement the Diapason chorus and the introduction of a Twelfth (Probably in place of the Dulciana which sounds like a small third Open Diapason)
On the Swell substitute the Bourdon by a Mixture.
On the Pedal, the addition of a Reed (Trombone)
At the moment the organ is mainly suitable for Romantic repertoire but somewhat limiting for the performance of baroque repertoire (J.S.Bach for instance)
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Thank you for a) the demonstration and b) the link to the NPOR listing. Something which we be useful if everyone did. If you don't mind, I'll pinch that idea!
Your demonstration was very thorough, perhaps you could have shown the difference between the Great Open I and Principal and Open II and Principal, and then add the Piccolo. Incidentally, that Piccolo sounds like a compromise between a Fifteenth stop and a Piccolo. This was not uncommon at the time it was originally built: builders knew that a 2' flute stop wd not be much use in helping leading the singing (the main purpose of the organ then) so, even when a Piccolo was specified they wd make it as like a Fifteenth as they dared.
Thank you for watching! Point taken about additional demonstrations - taken on board 👍🎹
Presumably the rebuild is now an electropneumatic design? I notice you don't demonstrate the shutters of the swell to see how well it changes the sound ? Anyway, a great sound to be sure and this re-build must have cost one hell-of-a lot of dollars !! I hope they have a congregation to match the outlay. Thanks again for a great video and hey, don't let the ladies intimidate you !!LOL
There were various bits I didn’t get to demonstrate…the coffee morning ladies were standing with their coats on waiting to go home…I was being intimidated by ladies again 😄 Lovely organ though and thanks for watching 👍🎹
An interesting instrument. Overall it has a nice light sound. The principal chorus sounds a bit transparent, dare I say almost string like. I assume the tracker action was removed because it was worn out. To me the tremulant needs to be slowed down. This isn’t a theatre organ! I have to wonder at the thinking behind the plethora of toe studs and pistons and lighting options.
I'm not sure about the original tracker action to be honest but I assume that will be the case. Toe pistons are certainly excessive and the lighting is just a novelty I guess. Unfortunately I wasn't able to demonstrate that - for reasons I explained 🙂👍🎹
@@OrganicVisitations I have a hunch that these toe pistons and totally unnecessary lighting was at the request and whim of an organist and the church were persuaded to fund it.
This has been a story I have come across countless times.
Tend to agree 👍
I also don’t think that any tonal revisons have been implemented.
It obviously fulfils its role as an accompaniment aid to worship and a degree of romantic organ repertoire. The absence of upper work is typical from this period.
I do not like organ tremolo.
Neither do I 🙂👍🎹