Inside the organ in the Cathedral of Orvieto - and tuning of reeds
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- Опубліковано 30 гру 2021
- It's 31 December 2021 and I thought I'd show you the organ of my new workplace, in the eve of celebrating the first year here.
You'll see a few shots of the Cathedral, then we'll go up the ancient steps, get inside the instrument and also I'll show you how I tune the reed pipes.
I could watch hours and hours of videos of tours like this. Thank you for sharing.
Great, dear college¡ You make people love pipe organ and organ music.
Great tour, thank you very much Riccardo. What a beautiful church. Fascinating how all the Pipes are arranged. A Vox Humana at the top back, Venetian French doors, reed stop spread left and right. The layout is unique, stay slim! ↔
What a fascinating and informative tour of the organ in your wonderful cathedral. Riccardo, your English is completely fluent and you have a gently self-mocking sense of humour which I thought only we British had! I couldn't stop smiling. 😄
eh, 17 years in London definitely took a toll on me! LOL!
Non avevo mai visto accordare un organo! Interessante
Hi from London, LK.
'Thank you for show
Wow, thank you for a very rigorous tour! Happy new year and don't bump your head!Ps. My dad was an organ builder. He and I took an organ out of a Catholic church in Chicago and rebuilt it in our basement. I was told to never blow a reed pipe with your mouth since the chemicals in your breath will corrode the reeds. I spent many hours tuning by hand with my dad at the console (nearly always yelling at me). I have tinnitus but it's from loud rock concerts. Cheers!
Thank you so much fir taking your time to show us your knowledge of this beautiful instrument.
Looks like I got 100!!
There is so much more to an organ than I thought. Very interesting. Beautiful church as well. Happy new year
Good video!! Nice organ tour and demonstration.
Very interesting tour!
Admire those vox Humana reeds
Ing the organ
Fascinating Riccardo! Which other video of the organ have you made and does it demonstrate the various stops?
Thank you! Actually I haven't made any other videos yet but I will start soon. I'm just thinking of some new kind of format, like a point-of-view with some camera glasses or something like.
@@RiccardoBonci I look forward to that!
That was really fascinating Riccardo! Golly how often do you need to tune the pipes? When was the organ built?
Thank you!
Well, theoretically reeds would need tuning about 4 times a year, but here the temperature changes wildly between summer and winter, so I have to do it a lot more often.
The organ was built between 1585ish and 1975, with a 2016 refurbishment.
Why not use an electronic digital tuner?
Because the temperature here changes a lot between summer and winter, so my A4 isn't always 440Hz, in fact it swings between 432 and 447 during the year. Much easier to stick to tradition and tune with the Octave 4'.
Haa haa.... perfect reason why organists should NOT try to tune organs. Let then stay behind the keys! :)
Indeed! But alas, when temperature keeps changing quickly and the organ maintenance contractor is quite far away we have to make do, there's no choice. I'd be quite happy not to have to go up there every 2-3 weeks, believe me! 🙂
It's not an uncommon thing for organists to tune the reeds until not so long ago in the UK! It costs money to have the tuner come around to do it, so it made sense for the organist to take care of the reeds as they're easier to deal with than flue work, what with cone tuning never mind the heights you'd need to climb for tuning pipes over 8' in length! Apart from that, flue pipes tend to stay in tune better than reeds and deal with temperature fluctuations much more easily. I can't be sure, but I seem to remember Simon Preston when organist at Christ Church cathedral in Oxford was known to do a "run around the reeds" before major services to make sure things were still in good tune.