I got a giggle when you stated "I'm not going to call it an organ..." About 50 years ago our Bishop came to bless the new organ we'd recently had installed. When he got to the actual "Blessing" he phrased it as "God Bless this... electronic instrument..." He simply refused to call it an "organ". Ok, it was a five manual digital electronic Allen organ, but still... :)

I'm a synth person, and I spend a LOT of my free time watching synthesizer review videos. This is FANTASTIC. Essentially what they've got it doing is a sort of additive synthesis, but completely acoustic. This is a MARVELOUS piece of engineering. You, my friend, have just gained a subscriber.

*Veruca Salt* "No, Daddy, I don't want any old church organ. I want a church organ with gamelan, tubular bells, sleigh bells, xylophone, sampler, _real_ drum machine, electronic gremlin, and other weird, wonderful & annoying sounds...no, wait, mine must have _two_ electronic gremlins. _I want one, I must have one!"_

Holy crap. Peter designed a pipe organ to perfectly imitate a Hammond organ. The late Jean Guillou might have been totally in love with this tonal pallet.

@timothytikker1147

4 жыл бұрын

KSL1972LLC Guillou specifically mentioned this organ in his book L'Orgue: Souvenir et Avenir (The Organ: Retrospect and Prospect). I'll have to look up the passage to remind myself of his specifics...

@praestant8

4 жыл бұрын

No, this does far more than a Hammond, but the concept of unusual harmonic fusions was definitely a 1960’s and 70’s thing.

Man, that dude was smokin' something alright! My brain is fried like an egg in a cast iron skillet!

"I guess it's there when you want to annoy people when you play the Organ" 😂😂😂 Who ever does that??

Fraser, I want this for our cathedral!!!

Brain frying? Sizzling Cerebellums! Good one for halloween, but I can't help thinking the organist who "designed" it was a practical joker, too.

The Theor. Is a Theorbe, or Theorbo. Is a pedal mixture designed to go with your big 16 foot pedal reed, in order to create a 32 foot reed sound, WITHOUT actually drawing your real reed 32.

"This is a style of improvisation that thankfully is almost died out" :D : D :D

Laughed my ass off during this whole video! 😂 Your hilarious facial expressions and descriptions kept me in stitches! Fraser, you my friend are the Victor Borge of pipe organs! Any plans to visit the symphonic instrument at the Stockwerk headquarters in Bonn?

This organ was built to play the simpsons theme

@jovetj

4 жыл бұрын

No harp

@spiritshacktv7862

4 жыл бұрын

@@jovetj listen to the dulcimer

@nathanroberts8421

3 жыл бұрын

I believe it was built for Steven Sondheims next musical atrocity

Fraser, the letters you mentioned under the stops referring to each key is a guide to the pneumatic connections! If you can find a schematic of the insturment it will be explained better than I can! Mascioni Organ Builders in Italy uses the same system to keep track of the kilometers of pneumatics. Cheers from Rome.

@soundguydon

4 жыл бұрын

Woah!! I would have never thought of that!! Very interesting!

@praestant8

4 жыл бұрын

Benjamin Belovich No its not at all, You’re grasping at straws. This has nothing to do with the mechanical design of the organ and it will not be revealed in any plans for the organ. Otherwise Klais would have had an answer. Firstly this is an electric action instrument. Second several pitches on opposite diatonic sides share the same letters. This is more likely a coding system for enharmonics in the application of the harmonic stops. Probably from the Ligeti school.

I HAVE to believe that Robert Hope-Jones would have been fascinated by this instrument. He thought "outside of the box", too! :)

This is the coolest organ you've reviewed so far. Thanks for another entertaining and informative video!

Your style of playing is adaptive to the craziness of this organ. Suspenseful, playful and happy are what I have noticed in your playing....you have a wonderful gift.

Oh my god! It's a hockey organ! Send it to Canada! lol

I think it reminded me more of a fairground organ. What fun!

I love that an organ this weird made it in to a church. Also, with the time it's been there, you know at some point the organist must've hit one of the weird buttons during regular church service by accident. Which is so funny to think about :)

Diese Orgel ist so cool, dass ich mir das Video in zwei Sprachen angeschaut habe ^^

@jenlw8974

4 жыл бұрын

Ich auch!

Thank you once again for a very informative video. All those people complaining that it's not just the music and that it's too much talk probably won't take the time to appreciate what's truly great about an instrument. The information you have provided paints a much greater picture of this organ's potential. Would love to sit at one and play for myself, but for now, I'm going to happily continue to watch your videos. Kudos

Love it....off-the-wall or what !! Great fun and it showed !

Hi Frasier I think putting a 747 through its paces would be a piece of cake after that demonstration, just watching made my head hurt. Great work as always.

This was fantastic. Both fascinating and hilarious! Improvisations very well done!

6:15 loved that vsauce moment ahahah

Some of that was perfect for Halloween! Bizarre or what! You know, I’ve been playing the organ for 50 years and you explained more clearly than anyone what Mixtures are. I know, I know, I should know this stuff, but this is why your videos are so brilliant. I agree the guy who designed that organ must have been on whacky backy at the least. Then the Wurlitzer effects, actually sounding a bit like a fairground organ. Thanks so much again.

I can't wait to see you on a theatre organ!

@danw1955

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe the Midmer-Losh in Atlantic City, NJ (US). Talk about a toy store?! That would be like a Walmart super-store on one console.😂👍

@matteozanon

4 жыл бұрын

@@danw1955 I was thinking more of a Wurlitzer, Compton, Standaart etc. organ, but that one is perfect too

These videos are the most fun to watch! It's always cool to see different organs! Those stop buttons are really fascinating and great design with different colours to indicate the stops! Very odd mixtures though and that crazy drum machine!

It seems to me that, during a time when synthesizers struggled to emulate acoustic instruments, the designer has designed an acoustic instrument to emulate a synthesizer.

The goose bumps I experienced towards the end of your recital we’re quite something. What a privilege to play on such an instrument. Keep these coming, Fraser! I, as I’m certain many other people, thoroughly enjoy your videos.

Totally cray cray. I love it.

Fraser ,that was very Good, that Organ is like a Wurlitzer Organ, I think that's great, thanks again, your Frend in Louisiana USA Julian .

I love the the music at the end so fun you can dance to it

The perfect organ for a science fiction movie soundtrack.

Love these videos so much. You're so charismatic and I get to see and hear an organ I never would be able to otherwise. Thank you!

In my opinion, this is some of the most entertaining content on KZread. So much talent and so much charisma!

@Charles-Reardon

3 жыл бұрын

I agree

I love coming back to this presentation. I am hoping that Waterfall, Garritan/finale, or some other digital bank supplier samples this as fully as they can and presents it as a voice bank. It is a magnificent instrument.

completely geeking...I'm at the 16:26 on pause, amazed he just pulled a theater Wurlitzer out of a church organ. If you could do us the utter honor of performing about an hour, maybe an hour and a half, and possibly make the performance available on iTunes, it would be really, very much appreciated.

You’re the male version of Diane Bish!

You look really at home at that organ! What a fun video, thank you Fraser :)

Love it! Fun presentation! You crack me up. 🤣

I haven't sat at an organ in over 20 years, and I think my head just exploded. Weird and awesome all at the same time.

Enjoyed the piece played at the end. Thank you.

I spent years on syntiziers creating those sounds (and noises? Is that allowed to say?) and there you have an entire organ doing it. Amazing! I love it!

@geniusofthenerds2720

3 жыл бұрын

I to play Roland and korg synthesizer

That cinema organ sound is so incredibly nostalgic for me... both my local cinema and my high school, believe it or not, have old Mighty Wurlitzers, so that sound was very much a part of my childhood and adolescence!

@FraserGartshore

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds wonderful. "Have"? You mean they're still there? Tell us more!

@BandBHawks

4 жыл бұрын

@@FraserGartshore Yes! The local cinema opened in the 1920s and was one of the first in the US to show "talkies." The original organ is long gone, but in the 1990s another one was relocated and installed there. My high school has an organ that was relocated from a cinema in Ohio in the late 60s. Both beautiful instruments and still in regular use!

@BandBHawks

4 жыл бұрын

@@FraserGartshore theatreorgans.com/travellingmoller/dghs.html

Hi Fraser!!!Thank you for posting this exciting new video!!! I want to say something about the stop you found as "Theor." on this organ. The complete name of this stop is "Theorbe" or "Tiorba" in italian, and is a colourful stop, usually consisting of two ranks of pipes of 6, 2/5 - 4, 4/7 pitch. In almost cases this fashonable stop is included into the Pedal division, to give some "harmonics". Historically, the Tiorba is born in 1580 - 1590 as a baroque instrument belonging to the family of the Liuto (Lute): infact, is also known as the "chitarrone", i.e. the bass version of the Lute. I don't like this very particular stop (for me is all but a "toy stop") because of its strange effect, but some organist use it for some cantus firmus in the Pedal or with the reeds chorus (in effect, you can find this stop only in very big italian organs..I don't know if this stop is also used abroad...let me know in case). Thank you!!! Manuel Bogoni

@organist1982

4 жыл бұрын

In my experience, this sort of stop is used to provide a softer 32' reed effect when combined with the Pedal foundations when there isn't room or money available for a 2nd 32' reed lighter than the Bombarde; sometimes it's called "Aliquot" referring to "other" harmonics.

i've never heard such a technicolor church organ, a masterpiece! i want one!! wanted to hear more of its toy counter thingies, however.

Fantastic! Totally sweeps the cobwebs off the idea some people have about organs being for old fuddy-duddies :)

Very interesting video. Love your narration and facial expressions.

Just came across your videos. I'm enjoying watching them. Thank you!

Super ! Fraser, amazing piece of music, thanks for it! Great organ. Now, let's organize the JAZZY ORGAN Festival in this great church !

My brain died when he said the organ has a drum machine

Wow! beautiful.

I would LOVE to see you do a video on the midmer losh organ in Atlantic City! The worlds largest pipe organ! Maybe if people donate enough money??

@spiritshacktv7862

4 жыл бұрын

I played it in my mid (cough loudly please). Amazing and I adored it. Still prefer Maceys

@johnsantrizos7638

3 жыл бұрын

I'm trying to get in there, they'll let me play when COVID clears up.

I love it! Thanks for sharing. Camera on the left side makes you look a few years younger. Keep up the great work!

Wonderful!

Fantastic!! Much enjoyed Thank you.

Absolutely fantastic! :)

I didn't know Lowery made church organs!😂

@SoggySandwich80

3 жыл бұрын

As a lowrey owner I can confirm this is very similar to my lowrey

Thanks for the interesting demonstration. I'm not crazy about the fancy parts. Love your cinema style at the end. Only someone like you can do this.

When I got to the stuff were you said it blew your mind, I heard a analogue synthesizer.... ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!

So fantastic.

Love it! What a MAD instrument to have in a church!

I love it. It's really amazing that you can play any type of music. Sort of like combining a classical organ and theater organ.

What a gorgeous reverb in the Church! Love the camera closeups of the stops...they seem endless! A great lesson on harmonic series too... sounds like computer music on some stops. Love the cinema organ features... your examples are fantastic and really showcase this wonderful instrument, and wowsa!! What a great piece at the end!! Thank you!!🌺

That's amazing! I'll get there next year and hear this wonderful beast. Thank you.

This video really has lifted my spirits.

WOW what an instrument. The modern improv to me just sounded like a bunch of noise, but thats me lol. When you do your recording this would be an IDEAL organ to use or one like it. The old theater organs are really something. This was amazing is all I can say. Thank you for introducing us to SUCH an amazing instrument in the heart of Germany in A CHURCH no less.... Well wonder never ceases... Again thank you Frasier and to your wife for recording this for us, for such great videos from all thes great German organs.

Really amazing and yes, kind of crazy! :)

Oh man, this organ is something out of this world! Yes, for normal people this would be considered 'way out there'. But I'm not normal am I, so I love it! I think this would sound absolutely fantastic if played by someone who knows this organ in and out. And it seems like a perfect match to be included in a prog rock album (think 70's style prog rock, not modern style). Gives me so many ideas!

WOW ! Like a Wurlitzer Pipe Organ !!

@comms9803

4 жыл бұрын

Its easily comparable to the one in Blackpool tower ballroom!

@geniusofthenerds2720

3 жыл бұрын

Wurtilizer is also an upright piano which I play In my church

😮❤ That's a great 👍 Pipe Organ +1 !!!!!😊!!!!!

Fantastic Fraser, took me back to my youth sitting in the auditorium of the Granada in Tooting in London, listening to the Cinema organ that rose up from the stage in the interval, brilliant.

What an incredible creation!

The faces you make are priceless :-D

I love it!! 🤩🎵🎶

I love it. Gloriously discordant. Those chords are mean. I like these chords.

you are professional true and true I have seen those stops on the electric organ in white and was wondering what the switches were for . you explain it very well fraser well done .

regarding the mysterious letters...could it be possible to be "vowels/consonants" when mixture gives similar ringing or resonance that resembles those letters.. top notes "z", many "i"'s...etc

I'm not sure who built this Organ or what type it is yet but there should be a stop list for this thing.

The lettering above the Swell (sorry my German is vile and offensive 😂) were added by Pieter so he could 'speak' his inspiration apparently. A little piece of trivia from my mum, who was terribly shocked/excited/remembering when she danced 'up front' with The Peggy Spencer dancers (yes you ARE old enough ha ha) in the church, accompanied by the now infamous Pieter

Love your work. Much thanks.

You mentioned the lettering above the keys. It reminded me of this murder mystery that used music box notes for a code.

Those last 2 chords on your demos are like biting into a juicy strawberry and hitting a rock!😀

Absolutely love it, think all church organs ought to have those capabilities. We though we were getting weird when we added a Chrysoglott to ours.

Him: * hears organ * “i am confusion”

Bravo !

Jesus Christ everyone who keeps telling Fraser to shut up just stop please, I am enjoying him speaking so stop posting these comments and let him explain the organ and stops.

Very cool!

I always enjoy your videos because not only am I entertained, I also learn a lot! But, I needed More of the actual drums. What specific drums, how to control them, and example using them…

Omg Fraser that organ looks incredible

That's a very interesting organ, with its unusual stops and combinations. A church pipe organ that's also a cinema organ! Some of the sounds are reminiscent of 1960s/1970s electronic keyboards. Plenty of scope for many genres of music from classical and hymns to film scores and 1970s pop. Beautiful church, too. An excellent and educational vlog, as always.

It really seems as though he was trying to reproduce an early synthesizer which, in the '70s, would've been based on square waves and stacked harmonics rather than the sampled deals we've got today. I was immediately reminded of Milton Babbitt with his synthesizer tracks and tape loops. Considering the size and expense of the things at the time, using pipes might have been an economical choice.

A very nice pipe organ ,with some interesting stops, that you can produce some very unusual sound combinations with. Very useful under certain circumstances

Whoa....cruise control!

That thing is insane, but I absolutely love it

Just a couple of thoughts ; I was so glad when you told us about the restoration and they didn't add anything , that tells me they had no need to improve or fix anything that never was broken , then when you called it a machine (just seemed very respectful , I think it likes being known as a machine) . Second thought ; this machine just has a much warmer sound as a cinema organ , than a great number of dedicated cinema organs that I have heard . This is a noble capable machine that simply deserves much respect , it may look or even seem a bit like Frankenstein's monster but if you remember his monster was also very loving , just miss directed , so as long as good organist lead this beast down the proper road it will impress and shine . Good for you helping this machine shine .

@praestant8

4 жыл бұрын

timc333 More to preserve the uniqueness, dare I say oddity, of this particular instrument than turn it in to a normal church organ.

I had a lot of fun watching this video, maybe not as much as you did at the organ; I would love to see the internals of that marvel especially the drum/bell section

Omg made me smile 😄😄😄😄😄😅😅

Jacob Collier would LOVE this instrument with all the harmonics.