Pipe Organ (An instrument the size of a building)
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2019
- The biggest of instruments.
Takes a half hour long video just to explore MOST of it.
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John Sherer is the Organist and Director of Music at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago: fourthchurch.org
Thanks so much to them for allowing us to explore this incredible instrument!
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friend: so what instrument do you play? me: *church*
Jarrettastic God would be proud.
Friend: Take me to church
Jarrettastic i’m the 1000th like
HadiBuilds thank you for your service
Jarrettastic 😂
Not only are pipe organs the _size_ of buildings, they _are_ the buildings. The church is the supporting structure and resonating chamber of the organ, making it a vital piece of the instrument itself. I just find that crazy. The church AND the instrument counts as one organ.
Kind of a metaphor for Yahuah's spirit -- the hebrew word for His spirit is ruach=breath. Since we are the temple of His spirit, then He is our breath when we are reconciled to Him through His son. Just like an organ in the temporal church building. HallaluYAH!
it’s almost like the church is built around the instrument and not the instrument is built into the church
@@autiemuse aaaw à we we esßfh
This is stunning . How does one practice without the whole neighborhood hearing ?
@@lettuceprey23 No Chance! I once was tuning a Tuba organ stop which was actually louder than the siren of the fire department next to the church.
Don't know who is the true artist here. The one who plays it, or the one who builds it. Truly amazing
Both are true artists
Or the one that tunes it! All three wow
Calling anything good an artist/art is detrimental to actual artists... That's why we are all poor and called loser by society nowdays... Anyone and anything can be an artist/art.
@@YskarAlbumLuna You sound like you just watched Ratatouille for the first time and took it way too seriously. Go outside, stop being pedantic, and quit trying to be a pseudo philosopher; It makes you look like a brooding douche. You wouldn't be able to even DEFINE "art" if it slapped you in the face with it's dick, so stop pretending that you're some intellectual.
@YskarAlbumLuna artists arent losers by societys standards, there are hundreds of artists alive today who are recognized for their work. Your art is probably shit, and combined with your thinking, it's no wonder YOU get called a loser as an artist. But dont lump in everyone else as shit while calling other people shit. How miserable can you be?
for those wondering, the MIDI does actually record the organist's play, so he can later on review how sounds are heard from different sections of the church to optimize the experience for everyone
Please explain what you mean. MIDI does not record audio. It records parameter data.
@@totallyfrozen in the other vid he said it'll like capture exactly what the organist does--so it can play it back exactly as the organist had. It physically plays the organ.
@@totallyfrozen he didn't say it recorded the audio, he said it recorded their play. It keeps track of the notes and replays them
@@totallyfrozenhe’s probably talking about MIDI 2.0
@@totallyfrozen See the video titled "Controlling a MASSIVE pipe organ with my computer" to find out how this organ uses MIDI. It has a hidden MIDI recorder and player and they later installed the missing wiring to get it to take MIDI as input and play the MIDI tracks through the organs.
So, if the ladder breaks while you're climbing it and you fall to your death. Would your cause of death be organ failure?
@ Zach- Of course, you big silly. What alternative would suffice?
No, but I *am* going to steal this joke :-)
I thought it would be an...organized death lol
No.
Not if the fall was from a ladder. if a pipe tips over in front of you and you trip and fall to your death, well that could be called Organ failure
You know an instrument is intense when it literally has a COCKPIT
You right
You right
You right
Your mom is intense
@@LeglessWonder nice
The OG synthesizer. Aside from the tremendous size, the fact that organs can essentially morph any sound they create in nearly infinite variation is basically the definition of a synthesizer. So pimp
A synthesizer, by definition, has to be electronic.
I kinda get what you're saying, but I don't agree as it's nothing like a synth
@@fishingwithleaches They are a lot like a synthesizer. Are they pumping out a raw electrical signal that is manipulated by envelopes and filters? No… Certainly not… but your thinking here is extremely limited.
I absolutely adore feeling the vibration of the sound hitting my body. When I was a little kid, my mom would take me to church, a neo-gothic structure with a big pipe organ that was played by an organist that loved to play it LOUD.
What a chad. That must have been a delight to hear every Sunday. :)
@TheCrimsonIdol987 I actually loved it. I love the feeling of the vibration of the music going right through my chest. It's like being at a rock concert! And this is a memory from very early childhood. It was the only thing I really liked about going to church.
@armedwithjello My wife when she used to be a home help aid for older folks had a client who was a total boss. He was the main organist for the Presbyterian church in our city's downtown area, and they had an older building that had a pipe organ put in it.
She LOVED listening to him play that organ like a total boss, because that's what he did his whole life.
He sadly passed away, but he was amazing.
@@TheCrimsonIdol987 He sounds amazing!
I love how they were playing it low and soft, like elevator music. I can just see it on church day, as people file in and sit, then the signal from the back as the service is ready to start, kick the baffles open, open it up hit one of those big massive chord combinations and progressions..... "Ladies and gentlemen. God has entered the building." 🤣🤣🤣
Guitarist: "My guitar is so loud."
Organist: "Hold my stops."
Rob scallon "hold my pedal boards"
1850s Organist: "pump my air"
I was complaining that my guitar was too loud bc i know i have neighbours so i cant play late... This video made me glad i didnt choose the pipe organ as my instrument of choice
@@daniwalmsley611 because u would fit this in your house xD
I could have a very large house, I could get a smaller organ or do what any reasonable british person would do and shove it in a police box xD
"Bro, check out my sick analog set-up...." The Church..."Hold my communal wine.."
Haha.I like what you did there.
Well actually this is not a fully analog instrument anymore. Most of modern organs have a digital pult and there is a datalink to the pipe house, where you have digital actuators, that control the wind.
jimpesh comments like this deserve more likes. This is amazing
@@dermozart80 While some church organs aren't fully analogue (due to price of maintenance resulting in the shift), this one would be still considered fully analogue, as they are still using every single pipe for every single sound, versus substituting for an electronically produced sound. Organs that also use an "enhanced" control board versus the typical control board of older organ models also could still be considered analogue, as the board is only actuating, while the pipes and physical system itself is still doing what it would have been doing before (but with more efficiency)
Grape juice
For those who are wondering what the range is:
Lowest note: C0 (16.35 Hz) 12:29
Highest Note: C9 (8,372 Hz) 12:42
9 octaves
This is true for this particular organ and most medium to large organs.
The lowest note (C0) is produced by a 32 foot pipe, and the pipe for the highest note (C9) is only 1/16 feet.
Some organs may play a few semitones higher.
Smaller organs generally have C1 as the lowest note (lowest C note on a standard piano), sounded by a 16 foot pipe, as there is usually no space for pipes extending to 32 foot.
The human ear can't even hear a 16hz sound. We just hear some remanent noise coming out of the pipe at this point.
@@ora2j251 Yeah.
@@ora2j251 All we hear is things rattling and overtones.
@@ora2j251I mean there’s nothing really to hear pitch wise, at that point it’s not so much of a note as it is a rhythm.
As a metalhead who visited a couple of churches in Europe (mostly Germany), I can say almost all organs here usually have more than thousand pipes
I heard Montreal's Notre Dame in person and it has over 7,000 pipes. Absolutely incredible sound
@@DevynCairns The 1921 E.M. Skinner 328 Magnum Opus organ at the Cleveland Public Auditorium in Cleveland,Ohio has almost 10,000 pipes! It cost over $120,000 dollars (which was an ass ton of money back in those days) and was paid for by John D. Rockefeller. It was the largest and finest orchestral concert Organ Ernest Skinner ever built! It’s still there to this day,but sadly it was neglected for many years. Efforts are underway to restore it. Two of the five manuals on it are fully playable. The other three are in a sad sounding state,and are not played. It is a monster of an organ. Severance Hall also in Cleveland,Ohio has an E.M. Skinner. Skinner revolutionized the American orchestral pipe organ sound,which is in many people’s opinion, is far more superior than European built organs. Ernest Skinner was a genius! The console in this video is very similar to a Skinner.
Most nowadays do, especially considering the fact that basically all organs have mixture stops with higher levels of ranks increasing the count significantly
I only just recently learned that even the organs in our local churches have hundreds, even thousands of pipes. It’s kind or sad that most people don’t even know how majestic these are.
Truly the king/queen/tsar/kaiser of instruments
Wannamaker Organ in Philadelphia beats out all of them, world wide. It's seven storys tall, and has held the record since it was upgraded in 2017. It has 6 manuals, and a total of 28,750 pipes. This organ featured on this video is little. I recommend going to Wannamakers (Macy's) in Center City Philadelphia.
Did you see that? There is a church inside that organ.
thats crazy right!
Lol lol lol. Well put
Which organ?
@@jonahmeert482 both you just have to look closely in the building sized one
LoL
You can tell this guy loves his profession
I mean it's a beautiful piece of machinery
He must though
This is by faaaaaar the most complex instrument to learn it must have taken years to even remember what all those knobs do
The organist culture is very small now, so we do take pride in what we do
Organist and former professional organ builder here, both are a lost art and we're all proud to show off and keep it alive
@@bastaudio @UCPGnlTCWc_hhJ6JkFnwTQag props to you guys for the incredible commitment
AHHHH THIS IS MY SPOTTTT I was a teen in recovery and was cold outside one day downtown and decided to walk in to this same church cause I heard crazy music coming from inside ! It was just the organist warming up so it sounded kind of like chaotic noise but it was amazing I'd never heard nothing else like it , blew my mind. Literally changed my life. Found God n everything 🤣🙌
If there was ever a Machine that a Man could ever claim to Speak on Behalf of God.
I'm certain that this Organ would be a reasonable choice.
I’m an atheist but this organ is dope as hell
Good for you
If you’re anywhere near this place (4th Presbyterian, Chicago).... go on a Sunday morning. Grab a hymnal & sing along. That would be quite an experience! I like this organist :)
My dad passed away a few years ago, but he spent his life working with pipe organs. He worked building organs at a company in CT, and later ran his service business, maintaining pipe organs all over New England. He knew pipe organs inside and out, he rebuilt them, moved them, tuned them, restored them, and even pioneered using midi integration in traditional organ consoles so VST instruments can be used through speakers in conjunction with the real pipes, recording key strokes, as well as storing stop settings. Thanks for your video, it brings so many fond memories climbing around pipe organs with my dad.
Q: So who paid for all this?
A: Organ donors
Lol
bad
I actually felt physical pain from this.
They had to literally sell their organs because it was so expensive
lol
This is definitely the most in-depth look I've ever had at a church pipe organ. That thing is incredible.
Y is this 12 hours ago?
Cold Potato17 yea wtf
@@carlosmatosfanpage2856 patreon
lol now it's 6 months ago
I looooove it!
Organs are such a fascinating instrument to me. They're so complex and involved. It can emit incredibly powerful & calming sounds, even sound like other instruments, all controlled and played by a single person.
the real god in a church is the organist.
I may start going to church.
His passion for the pipe organ is so powerful I could listen to him talk about it for hours
I know someone who owns a retired church organ that he rebuilt and uses for practice. The size of that thing is bonkers, it filled a semi truck when it was disassembled, and it's still a tiny fraction of the size of that beast.
Wow! Has he ever tried gigging with it? Haha
And that’s a great topic for a video if I could find a way to pull it off, learning about the restoration process for something like that would be really fascinating
@@robscallon Well he is a touring musician, but that is definitely not the kind of gig where you have to worry about bringing your own instrument! If you want to check him out he's Jean-Baptiste Dupont, from southern France.
I think it took him a couple of years to put the organ back together. I didn't get to see it happen unfortunately, but I did get to hear it play as it was being built and didn't have a console yet, so that huge machinery was comically controlled by a MIDI keyboard.
There are a few musicians I know about who did a similar thing with a Carillon - as in church tower bells mounted into a steel frame and played with fists on pegs. It can be moved, but the frame itself is usually a semi truck trailer.
im so fucking confused i watched a anthony fantano video before this and your comment glitched and showed "dont let this distract you from the fact he gave MBDTF a 6"
it still says that
what the fuck have you done to my phone melon man
yee lol I'm getting a comment from a sways universe clip wtf
Brb gotta go tune my organ, I'll be back next week.
More like next year
“How do you tune that thing?”
‘no’
@@Hyzian Idiot. You definitely tune an organ. Re-watch the video. The guy clearly demonstrates how you would tune an organ. Lol.
@@Hyzian Take it from someone that used to install and repair organs for a living. Yes, you do tune a pipe organ! You tediously tune each and every pipe individually. In this case, that would be several thousand pipes, scattered throughout the building.
TBH, a week of tuning won't get you very far in an organ of that dimension.
These are the best sounds I've heard from an instrument. Learning to play this thing is a science in itself
Come to Germany, its easy to learn it here.
I now have even more respect for my music teacher.
just imagine how good that would sound in person even rob said some notes you can't even hear. just imagine the vibrato it would crazy
I.ve been told it's right up there with the brain of a jet fighter pilot!
I watched the entire video with a giant smile on my face that my cheeks hurt. it is... just magnificent, ablosutely magnificent. One of the best things humans ever made.
Yes it is, right along with the glass armonica and the glass violin....as a child I got to play on the pipe organ at our church us kids all loved the sounds it made.
playing the pipe organ is as dangerous as flying a plane. Here, if you commit a mistake, you don't crash, but the whole city notices it.
I like how you say commit a mistake as if it is a crime made me laugh
@@yeetreviews instant crucifixtion if u mess up
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Makes me wonder how they practice
@@adityakansotiya8528 that’s WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaAAAAAAAAA give me a sec AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY to far
Musician 1: I play the violin
Musician 2: I play the trumpet
Musician 3: I play the clarinet
Musician 4: I play the building ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Actually Musician 4 says "I play with my massive organ"
here we see:
1. a dad
2. a child
i play de mayonaise and i know a few peenists
@@EpicStuffMan1000 you stink.
Musician 5: I play the giant bass.
The pipe organ is by far the most impressive insturment to exist. And someone who knows the ins and outs of the organ is just as impressive
After playing keyboards all my life, in 2020 I played on a church organ for the first time in my life. Crazy experience. The whole church trembling under my feet. Chills all the time!
john bored at night playing his organ
chicago: here we go again....
“Who is it this time?”
😂😂
me chuckling to all these jokes
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Me: I have the biggest instrument I play the tuba
The guy playing: hold my church
Hold my bible
Hold my tabernacle
Dude even a piano is bigger than a tuba
Royal Emerald Builder I was talking just in brass band
Hold my holy water
My mom was an amazing organist for over 50 years. She played a very similar instrument as this one. I get very emotional when I hear organ music. After she passed, I was in England in various cathedrals. Each time the organ was being played. The 2 other times I was there, I never heard them play. It was like her spirit was there playing just for me.
I knew pipe organs had big pipes, but I never imagined they use the tiny ones. This is one of the coolest things I've seen on your channel. Thank you.
The guy playing the organ seems like such a nice dude.
Chris he doesn’t seem like one
He is one
He reminds me of Andy from The Office. :)
When looking for a someone to play the organ in your cathedral, it would be pretty sensible to make sure that they're decent and nice - you don't want to put some scumbag asshole in charge of *_that much_* power and noise . . .
@@saurabhsonic something tells me this guy wouldn't abandon his office and then come back weeks later feeling all entitled to tell everyone to get to work while lying to his boss making him think he was at work those weeks and weeks he was gone.. Also expecting the rest of the office to lie for him.. I could go on, Andy was kind of a total douche in a way... And in another way he was like the nicest dude ever.
us, organists are all very nice ;)
me:so what what instrument do you play?
them: oh, it's the one on the corner of east 9th and st claire
good one xD
🤣😂
The organ has been used as a symbol of power, it isn't just those who used it, owned it, or built it, it's the instrument itself that's powerful.
Not only is the instrument amazing but the engineering behind all of it is wildly complex.
the people who disliked this are all organ tuners.
nothing like a B3 hidden in the stacks... oh the tuning, the tuning... so sad
Why would they dislike?
@@Mike-kr5dn it's pretty damn hard to tune organs
Im your 500th like. Feel happy
Actually it dont seem like they need tune, these are pipes guys, but the guys who change the pipes disliked
Band about to jam
_1 sec boys, let me tune my Organ real quick_
*Week later*
@@teknopoju SEVerAL Days lAtEr
*goes to hospital*
Fuck me if I had to replace a pipe in there I’d commit ropenecc
@@mfThump a week wasn't good enough?
This feels like the final boss of instruments
He seems so eager to show off his instrument. It's so cool and amazing! I LOVE this instrument!
I will never ever complain tuning G string of a guitar after watching this.
Yeah, I gave up on trying to tune my G-string. The tauter the string got, the more worried I became that I wasn't going to be able to keep my guts inside any more...
Get a wound g string, for real
Ive never complained about tuning ANY g-string. I don't play guitar though....
And there's only a few pipe makers left in the World which are the only ones that can also tune the pipes.
I like G-string
In all of recorded human history…how did we ever come up with this instrument? Truly awe inspiring!
Immense and intricate
The Greeks did it.
Pretty sure it started with a blade of grass held betwixt the thumbs. Then a flute. Then a series of maniacs started wondering why not try to attach several flutes together making the pan flute, then it became 30, 60, 150 and several decades later, hundreds even and possibly a lot of spirits involved someone said : i want to build a church that is half instrument, half pews.
@@Wifibee lol
Magic mushrooms, man. Gotta be. Too weird to be anything else.
"Wait! What if a building was also like, a millions horns!?"
Mushrooms for sure.
I struggle to play piano with two hands and this guy plays, that work of art
This is genius engineering. Absolutely incredible. I'm in awe
What's the range?
Diesel truck to dog whistle.
😂😂
Aftermath of bad Mexican to kicked in the nuts.
Elephants talking to 100 little girls screaming in unison on helium.
Jd Sumner to newborn mosquito
A pipe that weighs 1000 lbs.? Wow. Rollin' coal for sure.
Next video: giant pipe organ metal
That's like 10000 of me
Would love to hear someone play Deep Purple's "Perfect Strangers" on this organ.
I always thought the pipe organ would be a perfect instrument in metal, quite a shame it's never used
@@GSVRemix At least on album. You'd have to rent out cathedrals and stuff for live shows...which would likely be "iffy"
@@jedinightwing Christian metal would be new favorite genre if someone used a pipe organ like this
10:50 sounds like the most happiest dream anyone could have.
Truly the instrument of instruments. Really incredible engineering. Also this organist that's explaining everything is a beast of a musicians! Total rockstar!
Normal people:
I play the piano!
This guy:
Well, I play a building!
i''e played a even bigger
organ lol
An organ is a piano only more advanced and powered by wind
*The organ beats the piano to a frazzle!*
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I don't know what is more amazing. The Instrument or the people who can actually play it.
broazrael1234 I mean.. I guess it would be just like a piano except you have to take into consideration that it might be delayed in some areas because of the size.
Or perhaps the people who can build and tune this kind of Leviathan. Days of tuning. I can well believe it!
@@Monyato organs are slightly different to play but yes.
As an organist, it’s similar to piano but you have a pedal board which may be somewhat difficult for mainly just a pianist
You know what most people fail to appreciate? The people who build it. Shit is complicated!
Respect to the guy who's playing the Organ. Sooooo much going on in one sitting it's mind blowing. I love his enthusiasm talking about the instrument.
Organs are my favorite instruments man. It’s just incredible how ahead of their time they are
"Exploring" an instrument has never been so literal before.
new musician goals:
buy a church
keep the organ
@@theshyguy1580 Or you could donate a bunch of money to Atlantic City in Seattle to help restore the Atlantic City Boardwalk Theater Organ, the largest instrument in the world, currently under restoration. Will be finished in 2023, it's gonna be grand.
That low note just added $1000 to the electric bill
Do you remember when he played that? I was trying to show it to a friend.
Edit: Just found it. 12:28
Awesome man
Cody Sifford, it registered a 2 on the Richter Scale. Lol
@Cody Sifford, that low note probably spun the meter like a top! Lol
Cody Sifford haha classic
You have an entire concert band in a single instrument right there!
(Well, minus the percussion.)
I had no idea that any of the old churches and cathedrals were so fully plumed. Such beauty in form and function, the whole massive machine .
Thank you for this. Our world is an unending bounty of profound amazement and you fellas all did a great job at capturing for me, the gloriousness of the pipe organ!
If you fall, the pipes might damage your...organs
Neptunite beautiful
Neptunite if you play the lowest notes too long it does it too. That is why the organist doesn’t play I for too long
;-;
Get out man lol
The puns
"Father they're falling asleep again."
"Pull out ALL the stops!"
ALL the stops?
ALL the stops!
Jarvis Colorado: OH YES OKLAHOMA BOMBOGENESIS
Underrated comment right here.
Some bass would wake em
2nd officer. " PULL OUT ALL THE STOPS."
What a great teacher and presenter for this instrument.
The way that changing which stops are pulled and which keyboard you're using makes the organ act like a synth is absolutely insane
How gracious of the organist to explain and show us all every aspect of this organ. Fascinating!
s tanner It’s just so happens he’s a great guy. I’m sure there’s some jerk organists out there.
Hard to find people like that these days
agreed. I'm sure the bitter organists are the ones who are stuck playing digital pipe organs. It takes true passion to be so happy to share everything about the instrument they can
as long as the religious man is showing the internet his 'organ', and not some little kid, then its all good
That guy is awesome artist, and a very generous host to spend what probably was a whole day showing every part of that magnificent organ
as soon as he said 7:40 "this is one of the most famous organ pieces" i knew exactly what he was about to play
I learned about this song 2 days ago and I don’t regret it
Same
Actually on the original sheet it doesn t say it is for organ. It sounds good on violin also. Search for Bach Toccata on violin. Even worst than that it wasn't found through Bach's original papers but as a copy by someone and publisht 80 years after he died
i guess toccata and fugue ?
I know XD
This may be my favorite thing I’ve ever watched on UA-cam. So cool! Thank you so much! I’ll be watching again - multiple times, I’m sure!
You and John Sherer, and your tech crew, you guys are awesome, and bring us SO much!
I really love how there is no interruptions the expert talks and everyone listens, that’s always something that annoys me is when a host wants to try and talk over the person trying to explain their instrument or whatever it is
aka jimmy kimmel
I really like how at 26:44 u do something that could be mildly aggressive towards the 1850 organ and then it immediately looks like he's putting you in jail
Haha 😂
Zack Santos bruh straight up got me fuckin laughing in the middle of the night good comment 😂😂
ahahahahah
I'm howling 😂😂
TO THE DUNGEON!
I love that the organist was helping Rob as he was improvising. The organist KNOWS what is going to make the tune sound good
This organist is so knowledgeable I could spend a whole day with him learning. John Sherer is amazing.
John was my organ teacher for three years. I had the wonderful opportunity to be the “Organ Scholar” at Fourth Pres. this past year, which allowed me to play this amazing instrument every week. Glad to see John and the organ getting the recognition they deserve!!
That must have been quite an experience. I'm sure I speak for a lot of people when I say I'm somewhat envious.
r/thatdidnothappen
"and then everyone clapped"
Guys it’s true I was the organ
@@deaththegrimreaper1824 just look at his profile. r/ithappened
14:40 when the car in front of me doesnt move
14:46 if they’re still not moving
@Emily Jeffords how
That laugh of surprise from pressing that note is awesome
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So so so incredibly beautiful. No words to describe the gorgeousness in both the instrument and the technicality and the architecture in the building itself.
Was watching this on my lunch break in my car which has a subwoofer. The mic not only picked up the low notes, but shook my whole car. Amazing.
This is actually a mini-documentary on pipe organs, and is awesome! Thank you for making this video!
Eduardo Mano Think that’s the point
I definitely agree. They managed to get a skilled musician who can also explain well.
@@louie9373 I believe that guy is the organist and music director from that Church. But anyway, he was a lot welcoming and helpful.
@@louie9373 "John Sherer is the Organist and Director of Music at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago"
Does anyone know the name of the opening piece in the video???
Went to school with John. It’s great to see his talent being showcased.
He's one hell of a musician to be able to play that. I'm in awe over here. Much like Rob lol.
Really? Very cool my man
Im his 2nd cousin
I’m his dog
Im his big toe and he feeds me once a week.. its kinda bad down here in my room... all the time in the shoe.. but at least i get to swim and play on the bed at night.. sometimes when hes asleep so deeply he won't wake up easily i sneak up his leg and crawl into his buttocks hole and i get the most amazing sleep of my life.
I was fortunate to have grown up in an Anglican Church at Madras ..Wesley Church...and the 4 to 5 Hyms that we all happily sang from our hearts was thanks to this huge Church donated Organ...it was so majestic...and the divisions...and usually our Choir Master would look small to the Giant Pipe Organ.Fortunately our Choir Master was a champ at this...I really didn't question those huge pipe all so beautifully crafted and sticking out...Some of Entrees before a real Choir hymn started was something to behold..when the pianoist just pressed into the key....it just took the Church accoustics into another world...The choir..the congregation..the prebster were all transformed with the 5 Hyms for the 45 mins of Service...1965 to 1980...How times have changed
That definitely brings back some memories. Two of my old local churches would welcome me in, in the middle of the night, just for me to play the organ & piano. I absolutely loved it.
Never realized just playing the organ was such a full body experience.
If you're ever in Salt Lake City, they do tours of the old pipe organ in the Tabernacle on Temple Square and sometimes they even have free concerts. It's usually church music, but if you catch a taping of Music and the Spoken Word they usually do at least one classical piece.
I got to see the organist doing this one piece where it looked like he was dancing on the foot pedals because his feet were moving so much and so quickly.
It used to be the third largest organ in the world, but I don't know if it still is.
Rick Feith lmao
@@bobdole4916 Classical organ music was generally written for the church.
@@rileymarth6824 Yep, churches have often been the impetus for the creation of the arts - not only because the subject matter tends to pull such strong feelings and thoughts out of people, but also because churches (especially the Catholic church) often were the patrons who commissioned the work from the artists.
One of the most famous organists was blind.
Jared : I got an 18 string guitar.
Stevie : I got a 20 string guitar..
Rob : I got a building size organ with 8000 pipes 😅
Rob for the Djent GOD win!
@@celticfury7328 Can you djent on a pipe organ?
organ organ on the wall, who is the djentiest of them all
Davie504 will still win in the battle using only an otamatone.
The ShyGuy only if you are a god
John Sherer is an excellent explainer and demonstrator. 👍
Organ: "I'm going to play a nice tune now."
Microphone: _"god save me"_
Well, it couldn't be in a better location.
@@TheKrensada good one
I know, The microphone not peaking was almost the most impressive part of the whole video!
Yo my air pods went arghhhhh!!🤣🤣🎶🎶❤️👍!
@@andrewe.7299 I don't think any microphone that doens't cost four digits can really replicate that lowest note.
Holy shit massive props to John for giving you the tour. This is awe inducing
@Michael Persico haha i was about to say holy shit and then i was like....hm is that okay since they're in a church lol
I hope pun was intended
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@@purebliss2669 We don't need your medieval bullshit. Putting a threat of eternal torment of they don't behave isn't love, it's totalitarianism. Think about it. Nobody should need magic thinking in the age of science. Your God used to be pulled out as a joker card to explain most of the incomprehensible things that happened, today, science has explained and thoroughly proved by experimental means and mathematics that all events are results of physics and entropy, period.
Religion has done enough damage already and it's way overdue that people open their eyes and see that therens no proof or even slight evidence of an afterlife, there is no God whichever one you were forced into as a child and this is your only shot at making something good. Stop wasting your time at church and do stuff.
And if you feel like helping others, remember that this feeling comes from YOU because you're a social creature and you want your surroundings not to be a shitty, sad and poor and you don't need a threat of eternal torture in hellfire to be good.
Well I think I had nearly as much fun watching listening and learning as Rob had in his visit. Fascinating.
This guy is so knowledgeable. He just answers all the questions so quickly and easily know all kinds of random facts like how loud it is, the year it was built, how many pipes there are etc
I like how these two are very different characters, yet a perfect match to geek out over this great organ.
I do too. I'd love to see a similar video of two people touring the inside of an organ and then playing the hymn tune FOREST GREEN, my most favorite tune in the world.
Music is universal.
yet a perfect match to geek out over this great organ. I dont know why I read that differently
The only way to receive true happiness is to be born again. Jesus loves you and is coming back to earth soon. This year is giving signs of end times. You need to repent. Please believe and spread the word to your friends, family etc so they can be saved. I'm doing this because I care about where your gonna end up on judgement day Jesus loves you.......
@@purebliss2669 righto. I'll bear that in mind, I guess.
Being afraid of heights, I think I can safely scratch Organ tuner off my list of potential careers
I fervently agree. I'm scared of heights too.
I wish I had become a professional organist but I am very picky about time periods. I don't like modern music, and even in the classical music category, I strongly prefer certain time periods over others.
Medieval music before polyphony is BORING,
I love medieval polyphony, Renaissance and Baroque music, but it is rare for me to like anything that is later than the Baroque era. And there is only a handful of modern compositions that I like. So I can't be a professional organist either, since professional musicians are not allowed to be picky. That's why I'm still an amateur.
BTW I am really afraid of open spaces too unless I am surrounded by people. I have a depth perception problem due to being born with water on the brain. heights, open spaces, and high ceilings make me unsteady and wobbly, sometimes even dizzy. When I ask my friend for a tour of the organ interior, I am going to hold onto the wall for dear life. I have never seen the inside of an organ and I would like to...but just once since I'm scared of heights. Fortunately the organ I speak of is not too big.
@@claireforestgreenorgangeek7882 If you don't mind me asking and you understand your condition, what causes you to lack depth perception? Brain malfunction? Physical damage?
It would take weeks to tune it.
Actually it's not that bad. I'm terrified of height and used to be an organ builder/tuner. You're kinda focused on listening for frequency matching so you forget how high up you are.
I would be willing to be that most of those ranks don't get touched on a regular tuning visit.
Stuff like Celeste's and Unda Maris ranks which are deliberately tuned flat or sharp to a main string are likely left alone a lot of the time.
A good tuner can lay Principal bearings in a few minutes. From then it'll be maybe 3-5 minutes per rank, unless it is horribly out of tune. But a tuner needs a damn good assistant at the console on an organ that size to be that quick. Communication is key.
Ranks below 8' pitch like Bourdons, double diapasons, etc likely won't need a lot of moving, unless they are reeds.
It'll be the reeds, flutes and mixtures that take the time on this one.
The organ in the Royal Albert Hall (9000+ pipes!) has front pipes which are over 32ft. The biggest I think is just over 40ft tall and weighs a tonne.
This instrument just blew me away! Amazing!
It amazes me that you are always able to make a melody no matter the instrument...excellent interview and so interesting and an incredible feat of design...thinking about the knowledge that went into creating such an instrument...and learning and maintaining it !!
Interviewer: So how long does it take to tune this thing?
Organ Player: *no.*
AllKindzz
:no?
Hehehe
Samurai Studios iT takes really long
Jarvis Colorado: yes. (because he can tune organs very quickly)
Conservative twins
I finally realized why it’s called an Organ. It’s literally the organs of the building in which it lies. In this case being a church and it’s absolutely beautiful.
I’m not a religious person but when I do go to church with my wife I love the organ
@@bcc5701 Just say what you want. Who cares if you're religious or not?
@@bcc5701 Romans 10:9-10 "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved."
And please follow God's commands too, before it's too late 🙏
No. "The word organ is derived from the Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon),[17] a generic term for an instrument or a tool,[18] via the Latin organum, an instrument similar to a portative organ used in ancient Roman circus games. " en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_organ#History_and_development
@@reclusiarchgrimaldus1269 God is dead
I was grinning the whole way through this. What an awesome instrument, and what an awesome tour and demo the organ man gave you!
Stunning not only the organ but the building that helps supports the resonance of the organ making a sound that not only resonates in the building but in oneself too
"it's amazing how many sounds you can make just by pushing air through a pipe" - said the human being
Lmao. Literally what your lungs do tough your throat and vocal cords. Haha of course we can’t get super deep or super high pitched.
@@jbw5485 No, but Prince could sing 5 octaves.
This is not an instrument the size of a mere building, Rob.
It is the size of a CATHEDRAL.
Still a building.
That's still a building
But cathedral are buildings, I know it's supposed to be a joke but... Nin
sorry the naysayers _chimed_ in on this
The most powerful, divinely inspired instrument ever. If certain compositions don’t move you to tears you are not alive
I keep coming back to this video. 3 years out and 5.7m views... Wow. What a great channel. I love music and I love learning how things operate. One of my most favorite instruments is the organ. Great job on this one team.
It's amazing that once upon a time somebody was so dedicated to music that they would design and build something so colossal.
Considering this organ was built in 2015-2016, it's not so "once upon a time" ago. :)
Silent Gloves he said design, meaning when it was created. Although it was a process. At the beginning it weren’t that big, bet they kept growing as the churches were build bigger in the gothic age
@@SilentGloves I'm pretty sure it was only restored then. This place is much much older. Research *The Mudflood* Churches
@@herbienbrian2 Though about 25% of the original pipes were refurbished, the rest of the organ is brand new, built by Quimby Pipe Organs in 2015. The previous organ was completely removed do to its poor condition. Even the console was replaced with an entirely new console. Information can be found here: www.fourthchurch.org/music/organ/index.html
@@herbienbrian2retard
Did he just play the windows error sound at 17:23 ?????
Apparently so.
yes
shity timestamp or what
HackanHacker no you’re just dumb
HackanHacker listen for it
This is the best explanation of a pipe organ that I've ever seen or heard.
As a UA-cam junkie, this is one of my favs. Simply amazing. Fabulous recording too. Really get a sense of the majesty of this phenomenal instrument and musician.
And it comes with hall reverb XD
Cathedral reverb
Chorus if you activate that section too
@@christianwhatthataintenoug3604 i really wish the one in my church was this big and had that many options 😅
How do ya turn those effects on?
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