only one theater organ was in the philippines. it was in the avenue theater. larger theaters such as lyric, capitol, and metropolitian didn't have any. but the metropolitian planned to get one. turns out capitol was 4/5 size of the avenue.
Hi Raphael The three songs in the opening medley are: If My Friends Could See Me Now (Sweet Charity) From This Moment On (Cole Porter) On a Wonderful Day Like Today (Bricusse and Newley) Tom
Well it varies from piece to piece - if you’re talking about fast pieces the exact tempo is what you feel, or what you might hear from the original musical. It's kinda up to you as part of the arrangement and interpretation :)
@@KeyboardSkillsPro ah, so that is something like those EQ presets on radios and such, IOW the most common registrations distilled into the number of pistons available. :)
@@KeyboardSkillsPro i'm curious how you enter the desired registration into each piston, in the absence of the stop tabs? is there another hidden control interface not visible in the theatre?
The organ runs of a VTPO software programme called Hauptwerk - this has a virtually theatre pipe organ (VTPO) sample set which we control by the MIDI keyboards and pedal board. The stops are on a small PC screen - you just make a registration and memorise it to a piston :)
I wish I could be there in person!🎶
One day perhaps on a trip to England, Elizabeth!
Kind regards
Tom
only one theater organ was in the philippines. it was in the avenue theater. larger theaters such as lyric, capitol, and metropolitian didn't have any. but the metropolitian planned to get one.
turns out capitol was 4/5 size of the avenue.
Interesting!
Hey Tom what is the name of the song as I am looking to try and get into playing the cinema organ.
Hi Raphael
The three songs in the opening medley are:
If My Friends Could See Me Now (Sweet Charity)
From This Moment On (Cole Porter)
On a Wonderful Day Like Today (Bricusse and Newley)
Tom
I just wanted to ask you when you play showtunes what is the tempo that you usually play
?
Well it varies from piece to piece - if you’re talking about fast pieces the exact tempo is what you feel, or what you might hear from the original musical. It's kinda up to you as part of the arrangement and interpretation :)
Why are you playing the Broadway numbers faster
They are lively show tunes :)
sorry but i gotta ask- where are the stop tabs??
There are none :)
The instrument plays off 15 general pistons and 15 pistons per manual
@@KeyboardSkillsPro ah, so that is something like those EQ presets on radios and such, IOW the most common registrations distilled into the number of pistons available. :)
Yes kinda - the the pistons memorise mixes of stops for recall.
@@KeyboardSkillsPro i'm curious how you enter the desired registration into each piston, in the absence of the stop tabs? is there another hidden control interface not visible in the theatre?
The organ runs of a VTPO software programme called Hauptwerk - this has a virtually theatre pipe organ (VTPO) sample set which we control by the MIDI keyboards and pedal board.
The stops are on a small PC screen - you just make a registration and memorise it to a piston :)