That is pretty crazy! 4 stories tall! I can't make anything bigger than an 8' Diapason in my shop and I can't even imagine making something as big as that CCCCC Diaphone. The joinery must have been a real pain. Each pipe must have enough wood to make a whole school gym floor!
Yeah, I'm sure they turned the whole building into one large shop,, making a-lot of the things on site, like that pipe. Even now they have a large room set aside as a shop dedicated to the restoration and upkeep of that Impressive Pipe Organ. With something like that you'll always need a shop onsite for repairs etc...
You guys are so awesome for this!!!!!! Thank You!!!! Ive always wondered and was curious what happens on the business end of the original famous 8htz 64' Pedal "Sub"!! EARTH SHAKER!! I'm over here cheering like my favorite team scored a touch down.. BOTH HANDS UP!!
Considering what this organ has been through with decades of deterioration, the pipework in this chamber appears to be in good shape, at least visually.
This particular chamber has always been kept playable, even when the budget didn't allow for maintenance of the others. It's right next to the organ shop, hasn't had any issues with water leaks or damage by construction workers, and contains the two most famous stops, this one and the Grand Ophicleide.
That was amazing! Been hearing this on records since I was a kid listening to "Bach on the Biggest". So cool to see that view of it! We had a tube-driven stereo with 12" woofers, and I would get behind it just to watch the woofers vibrate like crazy. 😂
My dad was a hifi buff and I had the same experience. We had AR-2 speakers and Dynaco Mark III amps. My brother played Bach on the Biggest with the grille off one of the speakers- I was about four years old and never forgot it. At the end of the day that record started me on my career in the organ business, and I still have that copy of the record.
@@chrisnagorka5199 I still have some AR2ax speakers and they're great for organ music, though even those big beasts won't be able to properly reproduce 8hz.
I am at the end of my career and approaching retirement, so a little too late to switch jobs. Watching this and other videos about Boardwalk Hall and other grand organs I have performed with, I find myself wishing I had known about organ technicians in my youth and had spent my professional life maintaining such grand instruments as these are. Imagine the joy in keeping a classical organ functional for future generations to enjoy!
New Jersey native here. I last saw this organ back in the 1990's when the all state band and New Jersey Education Association convention were still held at the old Convention Hall. It was completely non-functional, but even seeing the console up close was a mind bending experience for a young person. I get such a kick out of seeing this instrument coming back to life.
Thank you for doing this. It is really inspirational. I'm an organist and I've been in a few organ lofts, but this is something else - it just oozes quality - the pipework, spacious walkways, varnished woodwork, swell shutters and the view of the auditorium through the grilles are awesome.
Thanks for watching; I notice an uptick in the number of people viewing these videos...I think people are traveling virtually and they're visiting this organ!
unfortunately a majority of the organ was either completely destroyed unable to be restored due to asbestos and mold or electrified but imagine it in it's prime!
That was loud! I am wearing earphones and it about blew me out of my chair! Thanks for showing us that huge pipe. For some reason I thought it would be the opposite and be a very muffled tone by the time it reached the top of the pipe. Boy, was I surprised!
This is awesome! I had the privilege of getting a private tour of both main stage chambers by former curator Dennis McGurk. I was up on the top level where you show the bag flapping, That organ is a treasure and I am so glad that it is finally receiving the care and attention that it deserves after so many years of neglect. If I was a young man again I would love to have participated in the ongoing restoration. Back in the 1990's I was a member of the South Jersey Theater Organ Society and participated in restoring the Kimball pipe organ in the Broadway theater in Pitman NJ.
Thank you for the tour, only wish the times I've been there I could have seen it up close, as I have toured other lesser organ backrooms and basements in the past. As a keyboardist, I have always been fascinated by the workings of acoustic resonances.
That's nuts!! A person could get seriously lost in that place. The first several times. So those giant C and C# pipes. They sounded more like percussion rather than what I would imagine a pipe to sound like
I have noticed numerous comments here stating that the stop is unmusical. Its purpose is not to be musical, but rather to support the ensemble. It is not really audible through headphones or speakers, only harmonics are heard. The true sound of the pipe is beyond the capabilities of most electronic sound systems and even human hearing. This stop is more about being felt in the room rather than heard.
Awesome! If ever it's possible to hear it in an ensemble from the center of the auditorium I'd love to know what it really adds musically. Better get out my subwoofer. Great vid-thanks for the work.
Honestly it doesn't add much, it's just too low and rattly to make much of a difference; but I'm glad it's there! It's like being able to see infrared light or something.
aTallGuyNH There is a Presbyterian Church in Prairie Village, KS that had a pipe that when the organist played the lowest “C” note you couldn’t hear it but it would cause the back windows of the sanctuary to vibrate. I guess that explains the plexiglass vs glass windows back there. It would have destroyed the glass windows otherwise. Their lowest “C” note was 32 or 36’, I can’t remember. The organ has been replaced by a new one now. (Pipe organ)
I can't even imagine how they fit all this stuff into the chambers without 3D cad to guide them. And left room for access. Did they pre-assemble each chamber in a shop before installing? But the woodwork is beautiful with everything varnished and the treads of the ladders mortised into the stringers for strength.
Brilliant! Mad, but brilliant. I'd love to hear an A-B comparison with the sound from the hall, or is it pretty inaudible and more 'felt'? I guess the latter. What a monster.
what a stop! very impressive! Can you record how this stop speaks into the great hall? I suppose it will shake loose al screws of the entire building LOL Thanks very much for this experience!
I love how, by itself, (to humans anyway) it doesn't even really sound like a NOTE because the vibrations are so far apart in duration (and also, we are not in the middle of the hall, it probably sounds a bit different out there), but I'll bet underpinning the full ensemble, it really is something to behold.
Quite honestly, the full-length 64´ Trombone of the Town Hall organ in Sydney has an even more impressive sound (I guess any such garbage bag would be torn to pieces there for after all, this is "just" a Dulcian). Yet I cannot wait to hear this organ restored to its former glory and filling the Boardwalk Hall with waves of sound, because when we´re talking organs, size DOES matter 🙂
Yes, I wonder how much the vibrations of the usage of these pipes, throw off the tuning of the nearby pipes on the nearby chests. The same with the loudest 32's.
Yall need to put an interlock system and a waiver for hitting the tutti fff stop once this organ is fully functioning again. That stop could probably level the building
When are you planning on another trip to boardwalk hall? I would presume after coronavirus, but I’d love to see more of the nitty gritty progress that’s been made more recently
I plan to go to the hall many, many more times but only after I get the all clear from the team up there...which will be after the covid situation has calmed down. I miss the trips up there and really look forward to taping more videos of this magnificent machine.
Appreciate the reply, i enjoy your way of explaining the intricacies of this organ. Can’t wait to see more, especially when they get the fanfare and echo running
SUUUUPER fun idea. Dont know if its a good one or not. Fog machine into the organ blower and watch it shoot out when pipes are played and u can see what’s being played. Or fog up the chambers watch the fog be blown around
It sounds like a large engine, however, I know exactly what large pipes like this are for having felt at least the 32’ ones before. Now I need to feel the what the 64’ ones feel like, and yes, I said feel for that is exactly what you with things like this.
Up close and without support of other ranks its sounds totally non musical.... but in combination with other ranks the true richness of a deep "set point" base shows through....
I'd really love to hear what the sounds and feels like out in the hall, itself. If you're standing in the middle of the hall, and just that note is played, what kind of impact does it have on you? Is it a major, stop you in your tracks experience?
Those are MASSIVE! Funny part is, from a tuning perspective, you can't really tell if the lowest of the lows are truly in tune because all you can hear is the vibrations. It really does not sound like a pitch. How much wind pressure is that one stop riding on?
@@JBridges1092 Keep in mind that "normal" pressure for this organ is 15-25". Two of the ten 32' stops are on 50" pressure, and those are far more impressive than this one. Such as here: th-cam.com/video/yUmdKax2248/w-d-xo.html ...and keep in mind, that trumpet stop is "only" a 50" one, not the 100" Grand Ophicleide.
Initially there were plans to have two boots for each resonator, a diaphone boot (as seen here) and a reed boot (hence the name 'Diaphone-Dulzian'), but those plans were scrapped after some testing. I'd love to know more about those tests and what dissuaded them from proceeding, though!
@@principals16842 Though I have no hands-on experience of diaphone organ pipes, my long experience as an organbuilder and voicer brings some educated guesses. (1) They couldn't get both to work at the same pressure. There may simply have been no room for separate supplies. (2) The valve that was supposed to switch from one boot to the other was an acoustic obstacle to one or both. (3) They couldn't both be tuned at the same resonator-length. (4) It might simply not have been possible to get the reed to speak fast enough to be of any use; or that it proved impossible to voice for some (many) other reason(s).
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7:40 the neighbour starting their vintage chopper bike
Hell's own racket starts at 7:41. The trash bag taped to the mouth of the low C pipe actually keeps vibrating with the air after the sound stops.
It's insanely amazing!
Resonating
That is pretty crazy! 4 stories tall! I can't make anything bigger than an 8' Diapason in my shop and I can't even imagine making something as big as that CCCCC Diaphone. The joinery must have been a real pain. Each pipe must have enough wood to make a whole school gym floor!
A lot of the larger wood pipes in this organ were actually made of sequoia wood. For obvious reasons, this is no longer allowed.
I understand the big pipes were made on site
Yeah, I'm sure they turned the whole building into one large shop,, making a-lot of the things on site, like that pipe. Even now they have a large room set aside as a shop dedicated to the restoration and upkeep of that Impressive Pipe Organ. With something like that you'll always need a shop onsite for repairs etc...
7:40 Holy crap! I'm using headphones and that scared me...!! :)
I guess I did my job then ;)
Most amplifiers won’t catch up on anything below 30 Hz I guess. That would be closer to DC technology :) coupling condensers are not that big.
Same here!!! I almost fell out of my chair.
You guys are so awesome for this!!!!!! Thank You!!!! Ive always wondered and was curious what happens on the business end of the original famous 8htz 64' Pedal "Sub"!! EARTH SHAKER!! I'm over here cheering like my favorite team scored a touch down.. BOTH HANDS UP!!
You win for the best comment
Considering what this organ has been through with decades of deterioration, the pipework in this chamber appears to be in good shape, at least visually.
Its being restored at the time
This particular chamber has always been kept playable, even when the budget didn't allow for maintenance of the others. It's right next to the organ shop, hasn't had any issues with water leaks or damage by construction workers, and contains the two most famous stops, this one and the Grand Ophicleide.
The pipes were never flooded, only the mechanism that makes the pipes "speak"
sounds like a Helikopter 🚁
This ladder labryinth is like playing Donkey Kong in real life. LOVE THIS VIDEO
Great comparison!
I laughed out loud when that pipe started playing!!!
I love the endless amount of pipes
That was amazing! Been hearing this on records since I was a kid listening to "Bach on the Biggest". So cool to see that view of it! We had a tube-driven stereo with 12" woofers, and I would get behind it just to watch the woofers vibrate like crazy. 😂
My dad was a hifi buff and I had the same experience. We had AR-2 speakers and Dynaco Mark III amps. My brother played Bach on the Biggest with the grille off one of the speakers- I was about four years old and never forgot it. At the end of the day that record started me on my career in the organ business, and I still have that copy of the record.
@@chrisnagorka5199 I still have some AR2ax speakers and they're great for organ music, though even those big beasts won't be able to properly reproduce 8hz.
7:42 when a ghost plays the drums
I am at the end of my career and approaching retirement, so a little too late to switch jobs. Watching this and other videos about Boardwalk Hall and other grand organs I have performed with, I find myself wishing I had known about organ technicians in my youth and had spent my professional life maintaining such grand instruments as these are. Imagine the joy in keeping a classical organ functional for future generations to enjoy!
THAT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!
Thanks for the tour!
Amazing! It helps so much to understand how sound is produced.
This is really neat, thank you so much for showing us! :)
Fascinating!!! I have often wished I had gone into organ building. How complicated. Thank you Chris.
2:36 On the left is the Grand Ophicleide, the loudest organ stop at 100” of wind pressure
Fantastic walk trough ! Almost surreal.
New Jersey native here. I last saw this organ back in the 1990's when the all state band and New Jersey Education Association convention were still held at the old Convention Hall. It was completely non-functional, but even seeing the console up close was a mind bending experience for a young person. I get such a kick out of seeing this instrument coming back to life.
I saw the organ in October of 1992 and part of it was going but it sounded like an abandoned calliope.
Absolutely amazing
Thank you for doing this. It is really inspirational. I'm an organist and I've been in a few organ lofts, but this is something else - it just oozes quality - the pipework, spacious walkways, varnished woodwork, swell shutters and the view of the auditorium through the grilles are awesome.
Thanks for watching; I notice an uptick in the number of people viewing these videos...I think people are traveling virtually and they're visiting this organ!
unfortunately a majority of the organ was either completely destroyed unable to be restored due to asbestos and mold or electrified but imagine it in it's prime!
Thank you so much for making this amazing video!!!
Glad you like it.
Simply amazing
That was loud! I am wearing earphones and it about blew me out of my chair! Thanks for showing us that huge pipe. For some reason I thought it would be the opposite and be a very muffled tone by the time it reached the top of the pipe. Boy, was I surprised!
That's basically how horns work -- they amplify the wave through resonances. The pipe is a very long horn shape.
This is awesome! I had the privilege of getting a private tour of both main stage chambers by former curator Dennis McGurk. I was up on the top level where you show the bag flapping, That organ is a treasure and I am so glad that it is finally receiving the care and attention that it deserves after so many years of neglect. If I was a young man again I would love to have participated in the ongoing restoration. Back in the 1990's I was a member of the South Jersey Theater Organ Society and participated in restoring the Kimball pipe organ in the Broadway theater in Pitman NJ.
Well done. You’ve earned a new subscriber with that effort. Very interesting and entertaining indeed.
Thanks
I never knew a 64’ existed! Amazing.
Amazing,thank you,opened up now to a new understanding, big time.
Thanks for watching. I can't wait to get up there again and make more videos.
Thank you for the tour, only wish the times I've been there I could have seen it up close, as I have toured other lesser organ backrooms and basements in the past. As a keyboardist, I have always been fascinated by the workings of acoustic resonances.
7:40 is what your lookin for
I'm in love! I'm all shook up!
This was awesome ! Could you you do a tour of the 32's int he organ ?
Like the 32' Contre Bombardes, 32' Contra Trombones and the 32' Contre Basons and the 32' Great Diapasons
Great you satisfied my extreme bass need..👍🏾2020
It is great to see this, it might be useful to hear it in the hall with other ranks, as I am sure it's effect is best heard at a distance.
Very cool! Thanks.
Dude thank u for this. My God I've been wanting to see this and boom here it is. This video is legit. Tour the rest hahaha
Keep tuned the for the rest, it may take a few years but I'll get there
Fascinating
WOW.. Just ... Wow!
THANKS, CHRIS !!!! Fantastic!! Would love to hear that pipe in context with a full organ plenum (for pitch understanding).
Fascinating.
I'm just amazed at all the ranks it has!
That's nuts!! A person could get seriously lost in that place. The first several times.
So those giant C and C# pipes. They sounded more like percussion rather than what I would imagine a pipe to sound like
Great Video!!!
That's one hell of an oscillator. It's based on gassy equivalents of inductance and capacitance.
I have noticed numerous comments here stating that the stop is unmusical. Its purpose is not to be musical, but rather to support the ensemble. It is not really audible through headphones or speakers, only harmonics are heard. The true sound of the pipe is beyond the capabilities of most electronic sound systems and even human hearing. This stop is more about being felt in the room rather than heard.
I’ve got headphones on and that just scared the crap out of me!!! LOL!!!!!!!!
Wow that was cool
That is real music power. How interesting. Even you all did not know.
Holy cow that is something!!!
Wow, just wow.
Awesome! If ever it's possible to hear it in an ensemble from the center of the auditorium I'd love to know what it really adds musically. Better get out my subwoofer. Great vid-thanks for the work.
Honestly it doesn't add much, it's just too low and rattly to make much of a difference; but I'm glad it's there! It's like being able to see infrared light or something.
@@chrisnagorka5199 it's just there for the fun of it basically. I like that reason
I've been told that you feel 64' pipes rather than hearing them.
@@atallguynh Yes that pipe, you can't hear. its what makes the "earthquake" effect. and its beautiful.
aTallGuyNH There is a Presbyterian Church in Prairie Village, KS that had a pipe that when the organist played the lowest “C” note you couldn’t hear it but it would cause the back windows of the sanctuary to vibrate. I guess that explains the plexiglass vs glass windows back there. It would have destroyed the glass windows otherwise. Their lowest “C” note was 32 or 36’, I can’t remember. The organ has been replaced by a new one now. (Pipe organ)
Just WOW!!!
Chris Nagorka
Diaphone is basically a Subcontrabass Diapason extension
Not really as the tone is more akin to a reed stop, it's more like a Contra Bombarde extension.
@@cnagorka So more like a Contrabass Bombarde/Diapason Hybrid
@@cnagorka It uses a Spring Loaded Pallet as the Reed
For me it sounds counter-productive and superfluous, as well as the Quinta 42 2/3'.
I can't even imagine how they fit all this stuff into the chambers without 3D cad to guide them. And left room for access. Did they pre-assemble each chamber in a shop before installing?
But the woodwork is beautiful with everything varnished and the treads of the ladders mortised into the stringers for strength.
Brilliant! Mad, but brilliant. I'd love to hear an A-B comparison with the sound from the hall, or is it pretty inaudible and more 'felt'? I guess the latter. What a monster.
Very cool
what a stop!
very impressive! Can you record how this stop speaks into the great hall?
I suppose it will shake loose al screws of the entire building LOL
Thanks very much for this experience!
It is felt more than heard. The frequency on a pipe that big is only 8hz, which is subsonic to us.
WOW!!!
That's quite some power
@7:42. Oh MY GOD!!!!! That is insane! I literally JUMPED!
That scared the heck out Me at the end where the diaphone was playing. Wow.
You think you were surprised!
@@chrisnagorka5199 Just the last part.
@@chrisnagorka5199 Yes.
I was watching these 3 in the morning because I am curious. Then these subwoofers sound and I got in trouble for waking my parents up. Funny right.
right after this video, his asistant wrongly press C# instead of C, Now Chris's nickname is Beethoven.
I love how, by itself, (to humans anyway) it doesn't even really sound like a NOTE because the vibrations are so far apart in duration (and also, we are not in the middle of the hall, it probably sounds a bit different out there), but I'll bet underpinning the full ensemble, it really is something to behold.
God help them if anything in the hall happens to resonate naturally at 8HZ!
Quite honestly, the full-length 64´ Trombone of the Town Hall organ in Sydney has an even more impressive sound (I guess any such garbage bag would be torn to pieces there for after all, this is "just" a Dulcian). Yet I cannot wait to hear this organ restored to its former glory and filling the Boardwalk Hall with waves of sound, because when we´re talking organs, size DOES matter 🙂
I'd imagine the intensity of the vibrations from that pipe would shake and move the tuning slides on the adjacent flues.
Yes, I wonder how much the vibrations of the usage of these pipes, throw off the tuning of the nearby pipes on the nearby chests. The same with the loudest 32's.
@@andrewbarrett1537 Yes, a good observation, Andrew. :)
Yall need to put an interlock system and a waiver for hitting the tutti fff stop once this organ is fully functioning again.
That stop could probably level the building
Good lord! ❤❤❤
The "BIGGER" the better. Great video. Quite possibly one of a kind as 64' ranks are not that common!
Yes, only two in the world and this one is a lot more powerful than the one in Australia.
Cool!!!
Oh wait, My 6:30 am alarm is ringing
Ahahahah
When are you planning on another trip to boardwalk hall? I would presume after coronavirus, but I’d love to see more of the nitty gritty progress that’s been made more recently
I plan to go to the hall many, many more times but only after I get the all clear from the team up there...which will be after the covid situation has calmed down. I miss the trips up there and really look forward to taping more videos of this magnificent machine.
Appreciate the reply, i enjoy your way of explaining the intricacies of this organ. Can’t wait to see more, especially when they get the fanfare and echo running
This pipe is just making rhytm
Some of the letters look like the ones you see in vertical sections of mines.
Giant pipe says: hello! I’m not a building pier, I’m a badass deep rumbly!
8Hz organ pipe - impressive! I wonder what that measures on a low frequency SPL meter
SUUUUPER fun idea. Dont know if its a good one or not. Fog machine into the organ blower and watch it shoot out when pipes are played and u can see what’s being played. Or fog up the chambers watch the fog be blown around
Wear a gopro head mount dude dont hurt urself! Awesome vid. Been looking for something like this every where
That's a good idea but I wanted good sound, so I used the fancy Panasonic camera.
@@chrisnagorka5199 gopros get very good sound
This is the 8th marvel of the world !
Sounds like a locomotive!
And the church organ at Joe Walsh ceremony the organ pipes look like amunition for a large cal. Smith tool.
grandios!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wolf-G. Leidel huh? I have a copy of Toccata Delactatione at home I need to try playing sometime but boy is it hard to read.
*waits*
Jesus fuck, that startled me!
I wonder how it would sound down in the auditorium. Pretty rich !
Just saw there is another video of this from the hall.
When pitch becomes a percussive rhythm! C -1, 8 Hz!
It sounds like a large engine, however, I know exactly what large pipes like this are for having felt at least the 32’ ones before. Now I need to feel the what the 64’ ones feel like, and yes, I said feel for that is exactly what you with things like this.
Play this at 0.25 speed, and you got yourself a bass drum drumline.
❤️!
Up close and without support of other ranks its sounds totally non musical.... but in combination with other ranks the true richness of a deep "set point" base shows through....
How many meters have this CCCCC 1 pipe?😱 This video Is absolutely amazing 😍😍
64 feet = 19.5 meters.
I'd really love to hear what the sounds and feels like out in the hall, itself. If you're standing in the middle of the hall, and just that note is played, what kind of impact does it have on you? Is it a major, stop you in your tracks experience?
DAMN
that has got to be a C-1.
C-0 or below honestly
It’s C-1 because C0 is the bottom of the 32’ register
It's supposed to be a C-1 at 8.175 Hz, but it's a B-2 at. 7.716 Hz.
HOLY SHIT, THAT'S FABULOUS! lolololololololol
that pipe that was played scared me😂
Those are MASSIVE! Funny part is, from a tuning perspective, you can't really tell if the lowest of the lows are truly in tune because all you can hear is the vibrations. It really does not sound like a pitch. How much wind pressure is that one stop riding on?
The Diaphone is listed as being on 35" pressure.
@@chrisnagorka5199 wow
@@JBridges1092 Keep in mind that "normal" pressure for this organ is 15-25". Two of the ten 32' stops are on 50" pressure, and those are far more impressive than this one. Such as here: th-cam.com/video/yUmdKax2248/w-d-xo.html ...and keep in mind, that trumpet stop is "only" a 50" one, not the 100" Grand Ophicleide.
@@chrisnagorka5199 I love your video’s. One question about 0:17, why is it vibrating so irregular?
That was scary...
Aren't there two stops that play off these resonators (1 flue, 1 reed)? Would have been interesting to hear the other one too
Initially there were plans to have two boots for each resonator, a diaphone boot (as seen here) and a reed boot (hence the name 'Diaphone-Dulzian'), but those plans were scrapped after some testing. I'd love to know more about those tests and what dissuaded them from proceeding, though!
@@principals16842 Though I have no hands-on experience of diaphone organ pipes, my long experience as an organbuilder and voicer brings some educated guesses. (1) They couldn't get both to work at the same pressure. There may simply have been no room for separate supplies. (2) The valve that was supposed to switch from one boot to the other was an acoustic obstacle to one or both. (3) They couldn't both be tuned at the same resonator-length. (4) It might simply not have been possible to get the reed to speak fast enough to be of any use; or that it proved impossible to voice for some (many) other reason(s).