***** Perhaps. I have a digital piano in my home. Light action but not the real thing. If you play the Original period instrument you get the feel of how it was and how it is was ment to be. But you are Anglo american so you do not understand. Perhaps you should listen to Ton Koopman. BWV 541 Excuse my poor English But i am shure that my English is better than your Dutch
Michaël Wisse I'm British. A late symphonic French-style organ would usually have cone-valve or membrane chests and tubular pneumatic action. Louis Vierne, writing to Ernest Skinner, said that the Skinner he'd played in NYC was like a Rolls-Royce in comparison to the finely-crafted horse-drawn carriage of Notre Dame...
***** Pehaps you don't know that the mechanical organs in your country were destroyed by ,,, Do your research. Come and visit me in Dordrecht and then you will be convinced that (what you call A late symphonic French-style organ) is just Bullshit. But thats what we can expect from from the uptight englisch upper middle class
Heel leuk! Lekker nuchter vertellen over een heel mooi instrument!
Fantastic Organ; I have a Decca CD containing Alain's great organ works played by Thomas Trotter.
En bon français :" Démonstration des grandes orgues Van den Heuvel à la Niewe Kerk à Katwijk aan Zee, par Jaap van Rijn."
Een heel orgel hoor.
So much action noise! And it's a huge organ for mechanical action. Should really have been electro-pneumatic, really...
In Holland we (also) like the mechanical stuff !
Michaël Wisse
Mechanical action is wonderful for smallish organs, but a big 4-manual symphonic organ with mechanical action is just masochism...
***** Perhaps. I have a digital piano in my home. Light action but not the real thing. If you play the Original period instrument you get the feel of how it was and how it is was ment to be. But you are Anglo american so you do not understand. Perhaps you should listen to Ton Koopman. BWV 541
Excuse my poor English But i am shure that my English is better than your Dutch
Michaël Wisse
I'm British. A late symphonic French-style organ would usually have cone-valve or membrane chests and tubular pneumatic action. Louis Vierne, writing to Ernest Skinner, said that the Skinner he'd played in NYC was like a Rolls-Royce in comparison to the finely-crafted horse-drawn carriage of Notre Dame...
***** Pehaps you don't know that the mechanical organs in your country were destroyed by ,,, Do your research. Come and visit me in Dordrecht and then you will be convinced that (what you call A late symphonic French-style organ) is just Bullshit. But thats what we can expect from from the uptight englisch upper middle class