A great artist musician, I'm so glad to hear him playing cinema/theater organ ! Here in France this instrument is quite unknown or underrated. I discovered these organs as a child with my father who was a fan of Sydney Torch and Reg Dixon. Mr Wolfe is a great heir of the great traditional knowledge of the theater organ payers. It is such a pleasure to hear him. thank you for sharing! I never had the pleasure to hear for real a cinema organ, we had the honor to welcome here in Lisieux, Calvados, France in 2002 Lew Wiliams who played on a digital Cinema organ by Allen (a George Wright model). I love this musical mood.
That was a great concert and was there in person. Love the sound of the Brentford Wurlitzer and the one and only Robert Wolfe playing it. He just gets better and better.
I truly appreciate being able to watch your concerts on TH-cam, but I can't help wondering why the volume is always so low? It started off all right, but it quickly went down.
Great performance, only thing that spoilt my enjoyment was poor left hand audio and low volume somewhere around 24 minutes, as per James Morgan's comments.
Hello Alexander, thanks for your question. Like many of the instruments on the theatre organ, many of the percussion effects can be played in many different ways. Firstly, some can be selected just like any other "stop" on the instrument - so they sound whenever you play a note or chord. This is often used in the pedal section for the cymbal crash, for example - the skill of the organist is to time the selection of the cymbal stop tab just before they play the pedal note in time with the music. The organ also has a feature called "second touch" - this means that if you press the keys harder than normal you can call on an extra set of sounds for emphasis, to accent a melody line, or for percussions - this works on the pedals too, and on the pedals you can choose whether the percussions sound first before the pedal note (light touch), or second (heavy touch). Some percussions are technically called "traps" which have dedicated switches, and/or buttons called "pistons" you can operate with your feet that play them immediately when pressed. There's also a dedicated "drum kit" pedal that plays drum rolls and cymbals.... we hope you get the idea!
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A great artist musician, I'm so glad to hear him playing cinema/theater organ !
Here in France this instrument is quite unknown or underrated. I discovered these organs as a child with my father who was a fan of Sydney Torch and Reg Dixon.
Mr Wolfe is a great heir of the great traditional knowledge of the theater organ payers. It is such a pleasure to hear him. thank you for sharing!
I never had the pleasure to hear for real a cinema organ, we had the honor to welcome here in Lisieux, Calvados, France in 2002 Lew Wiliams who played on a digital Cinema organ by Allen (a George Wright model).
I love this musical mood.
Fabulous! What an artist
Fabulous! Watched it twice 😃
Nice to see Robert at the wurltizer at the music museum giving it his magic touch seen him at Thursford on various occasions
🎼 so good te be with you all, here again 🎶 🙏 👍
his magic is the best I would like to see you again soon love to you Robert
That was a great concert and was there in person. Love the sound of the Brentford Wurlitzer and the one and only Robert Wolfe playing it. He just gets better and better.
Wasn't it in Kingston?
@@NakedMuso Yes that's correct the ABC or Regal Kingston made famous by Joseph Seal.
i saw Robert in his first season at Blackpool Tower Ballroom,when he was 16years old.
The magic Joseph Seal Organ
I truly appreciate being able to watch your concerts on TH-cam, but I can't help wondering why the volume is always so low? It started off all right, but it quickly went down.
Great performance, only thing that spoilt my enjoyment was poor left hand audio and low volume somewhere around 24 minutes, as per James Morgan's comments.
How do they play the percussion effects in time?
Hello Alexander, thanks for your question. Like many of the instruments on the theatre organ, many of the percussion effects can be played in many different ways. Firstly, some can be selected just like any other "stop" on the instrument - so they sound whenever you play a note or chord. This is often used in the pedal section for the cymbal crash, for example - the skill of the organist is to time the selection of the cymbal stop tab just before they play the pedal note in time with the music. The organ also has a feature called "second touch" - this means that if you press the keys harder than normal you can call on an extra set of sounds for emphasis, to accent a melody line, or for percussions - this works on the pedals too, and on the pedals you can choose whether the percussions sound first before the pedal note (light touch), or second (heavy touch). Some percussions are technically called "traps" which have dedicated switches, and/or buttons called "pistons" you can operate with your feet that play them immediately when pressed. There's also a dedicated "drum kit" pedal that plays drum rolls and cymbals.... we hope you get the idea!