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I don't know what it is, but Howard Goodalls programs are just captivating. I wonder what he's doing now

I want to be like Henry Willis IV when I grow up! LOL

have just found a DVD of this series if anything like the rest of his wonderful TV output am in for a treat

17:02-17:22 I am in total agreement with Bob Plimpton! Not even the biggest, loudest and best digital Allen or Rodgers organ can accurately and fully imitate the true feeling and sound of real air vibrating out of real pipes!

Huge thanks Howard.... all brill. I did exactly the same experiment in St. Martin's Church, Bull Ring, Birmingham. I had the Rogers electronic church organ franchise and set up a dem with all the local organists. Very cruelly, I got Robin Richmond to mime on the Rogers while the St Martin's chap played their fine pipe organ. You guessed it.... the organist buffs in the pews said the Rogers would never come close to the real thing!!

@11:30, I love the calming and serenity of the monks.

Gottfried Silberman and Arp Schnitger@16:10, at Haarlem Holland pipe organ, Diane Bish came there and played this very pipe organ! She wore a light turquoise blue dress when she played. The last segment of this video, I love the 32' Contre Bombarde in the pedal!

I love the clarity of this video regarding this pipe organ of the Duke. At the Henry Willis estate, I wonder these pipe organs have been sampled? Speaking of the diaphone, I wonder who Invented the Bombarde organ pipe for the pedals?

Again...too bad he didn't visit the Crystal Cathedral, that's the most spectacular organ in the world.

Too bad he didn't visit the Crystal Cathedral!

Horizontal fanfare trumpets

This my first visit to Goodalls Organ Works. I grew up with a two-manual Moller pipe organ in my parent's home in Atherton, California, USA. It was moved from a mortuary to our new home in 1941 but the placement of the pipes was not well thought out by our otherwise esteemed architect, Harwell H. Harris, and the pipes were put into a room behind my father's desk that was sunk some four feet below the surface to accommodate the folded 16-ft pipes. Unfortunately, this space flooded in the early 1940s and I did not get to hear the organ play until the early 1950s by which time I was playing a mellophone and a French horn. I enjoyed the segment here on reed organs. My mother's aunt had a playable reed organ in her Suisun home. Both organs are gone now, the pipe organ back to another mortuary and the reed to who knows where.

I remember when I was taking organ at my Alma Mater after a very terrible experience with a rather abusive Bassoon Professor that didn't want to waste gas to teach me half the time. I haven't played either instrument in a while, due to my current job taking away a lot of free time, but when I was there I remember there being a virtual organ and a practice organ. The practice organ was an old 1980's built Allen with very limited stoplist and abysmal Flutes and Diapason synth (especially at low registers). The Chiff emulation was also disgusting, however the reeds and mutations/mixtures were serviceable. The console itself however was still halfway decent with a very sensitive pedal-board on the AGO spec and the manuals having tracker action touch. The Virtual Organ I had a lot of problems with. The computer inside was terrible leading to delays to when I could call on some stops (Loading times, especially for multiple stops was rather abysmal with hauptwerk) and also the console itself was a big mess. The electronics were of very poor quality which lead to random ciphers in both manuals and dead notes in the pedals that constantly needed manintainence. The sensitivity was not uniform in the pedal and the manuals were piano weighted. Compare that to an Original 1800s era Aeolian Skinner in Caro Michigan any day I dare you. That organ is 100% better than any of the virtual organs I've had to practice on including my home's two manual Johannus from the late 90s/early 2000s; which at least has uniform pedal and manuals sensitivity and halfway decent sampling and intonations (Baroque style, or American Classic Style). My father did have a practice organ in his childhood home, but he couldn't afford to move it from Colorado to Michigan after my grandmother died and he had to sell her house, so he had to sell it to a organ firm. I hope to buy it back one day to keep it in the family and perhaps expand it, or if it was already sold, get an organ that was better than the one dad had that is easier to move than the unit organ dad had.

It's Wednesday night, it's amateur Hammond organ recital night - take it away, scutters!

This was indeed a splendid series by Howard Goodall, himself an excellent organist. Indebted to You Tube for providing these videos.

I had the privilege of meeting Hans Wunderlich (sp??) who used to be organist at St. Jacobi what a marvelous instrument.

Had the honour of meeting Henry Willis four (not the fourth)

Can someone tell me the name of this piece starting from 0:36 to 1:07 ??? PLEASE, HELP ME TO SLEEP IN PEACE WITH THAT!

1:37- 1:40 reminds me of a scene from a Laurel and Hardy film, where Stan Laurel is carrying a large plank of wood, and it goes on for a few seconds then Stan Laurel is carrying the back as well.

I'm very pleased for Mr Goodall!

Spanish organs!

Shame that the Grand Chicago organ had to burn down.

A real organ in this case has brighter high notes, less booming in the low notes and does exactly what you expect: it moves the air and the building that houses it. Thus the building becomes part of the instrument. The electronic organ vibrates the air, and the building muffles it creating the booming lows, rather than crisp staccatos.

Please...Churburg/Castel Coira is in Italy, in the italian Tyrol

Please check. The 'Wanamaker' organ is certainly a large and very fine instrument but the Auditorium organ in Boardwalk Hall organ, Atlantic City is bigger, being the largest pipe organ in the world with 7 manuals, 1250 stop keys and one of only two organs in the world with a 64' stop, the other being in Sydney town hall, Australia. It was good to see the Tower Ballroom Wurlitzer included also, a very good program.

Rather insulting to assume that music students would be more discerning than us 'mere mortals' when it comes to being able to detect a digital organ compared to a pipe organ, especially if they're not organ students. I don't have a degree in music, but as an organist I can tell the difference between the two. A musician with a degree is to be lauded of course, but an organist or enthusiast who knows their music well will know the difference.

So, tuning really isn't a priority...................................

omg Howard Goodall looks like Bill Clinton

One of the best videos ever made to introduce everybody into the organ world.

Kimberly always sexy !!

Does ANYONE know the name of the Polka played at 5:18, I'm dying to know please; thanks

This is a youtube to smile by! Thank you Howard (he said, smilingly!)

Can anyone tell me the piece of music he is playing at the end credits, when the credits start to roll ??

Rest in peace Jacques.

I knew someone who knew the tank collector guy!

I was hoping to hear the Allen and the Willis organ play together. I'm a die hard pipe organ fan. But the hybrids have caught my ear.

So the hills really are alive with the sound of music.

Between the real organ and the electronic organ on the hall I can tell the difference. The pipe organ has more depth and is multi dementinal. The electronic organ lacks the character by far. The digital organ sounds redundant

At 8:55 how is HG playing Wachet Auf on a one manual. Deffo miming

Esta pieza es para todos nuestros amigos regetoñeros con cariño y gracias por subir esta hermosa pieza y es una lastima no poder asistir a este evento :) Saludos desde Querétaro México

at 23:59, Love that Long Drawn-Out E Flat :D

You wonder whether it was beyond the bounds of possibility to have used a small floodlight to illuminate the derelict organ at Ceznaros. The single-manual organs have a very useful feature in that the manual is split. You can draw different stops for the treble side than for the bass. So the organ is far more flexible. As for what Monsieur Roth says of the reeds at 22:32. Maybe he is making a reference to the difficulty of keeping them in tune & so they do not sound as good as they should?

The synthesizer is nothing new either. Hammond made one in the 1944 just months before 'D' Day. The Hammond Novachord has 163 Coke bottle tubes & uses over 300 watts of power. Well, now there is Hauptwerk. But it requires an extremely powerful & dedicated computer to run it. It is a sampled sound, but a 'wet' sample. So it has everything you would experience at the location of the organ. There are sample sets of some very old organs, but I don't know if there are sets for any Spanish baroque intruments so you could play Batallas in a reasonably authentic way. I would bet there are some Wurlitzer sample sets as well as the usual stuff like the Hereford Cathedral Willis organ.

I would like to know what was in part 5, if there was one.

The Blenheim Palace organ is now all but derelict. Our local builder was Forster & Andrews of Hull. Their Magnum Opus is the Hull City Hall organ, with all the bells & whistles (literally).

Please could you upload the missing parts?

Please could you upload the missing parts?

Please could you upload the missing parts?

If you want to know Roth's Comment at 22:32 which is really garbled french accent in that clip. I was originally hearing it as "Of Course there are reeds, The reeds are bad, they're bitter". But in reality, Cavaille Coll Reeds are some of the best reeds ever put in an organ. Many critics of Cavaille Coll built organs agree that they are really sizzling and beautiful - especially the powerful 32' Reeds. Even Maestro Roth agrees; from his comments during the many interviews prior to recording sessions at Cavaille Coll organs across France, that I have been able to read. I would amend that accented statement to this: "Of Course there are reeds, The reeds are big, they're better." This is in order to say that the reeds of this organ are Bigger (More powerful) and Better (in sound and harmonics) in Cavaille Coll Organs than any previous organ built.

The piece played at Abarca is Batalha by Diego da Conçeicao