Theatre Organ Percussion
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- Professional Organist Tom Horton brings you (by popular request!) another theatre organ tuition video. This tutorial covers the basic percussion stops and 'traps' found in a cinema organ.
Filmed on a stunning little 3c/5 Compton cinema organ this video will show you some great ideas on how to use tuned and untuned percussion's in your music!
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Hurrah! what a wonderful performance! Thank you very much for your explanation and demonstration!
You’re welcome :)
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Thank you so much for Tico-Tico, Tom. It sure brought back memories.
Hey John - yes always a good organ staple. Thanks for watching. Tom
This video deserves more views. It's an amazing tutorial! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us.
My pleasure - thanks for watching and please do share the video! Regards
Tom
Not quite what I searched for.
Watched the whole video though. Really interesting. :D
Well I hope it was a nice discovery - glad you enjoyed watching it.
Tom
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Always love watching this tutorial. You mentioned the foot controls for a snare or cymbal roll, with a grand crash 2nd... BUT, you never demonstrated it. I find the piano pedals on organs VERY fascinating!! I would love to see you demonstrate some of those sometime.
Thanks - possible camera restrictions - will try to another video in future.
Tom
It would have been nice to hear an organ harp. I'm particularly fond of arrangements using that stop. But I guess that you can't demonstrate what you don't have.
What you refer to as "A spice rack" is more usually called a "Toy Box" here in the U. S.
+Felix Klempka yes Marimba Harp were generally found on the bigger organs. Thanks for watching! Tom
Keyboard Skills Pro Haha yes, and speaking of ‘over here,’ we tend to call them theatre organs. Not cinemER organs. Ha! But, those little differences, and accents, are what I so enjoy and appreciate about cultures and countries, etc. 😊👍🏼
Same instrument - different names :)
Another good video. But you spoke of the toe pedals and pistons, but NEVER pressed them! I want to HEAR every specific instrument you mention. lol. Also you might mention that you can get a faster cymbal rhythm but selecting a cymbal on the pedal and also selecting the cymbal for he ACCOMP... But always informative and I appreciate these. Thank you.
All good suggestions. Thanks for watching! Tom
Listen again. The video couldn't show the foot pedals but he did use them. At the start of the final demonstration I hear 3 parts ( not voices) two hands can't do that.
Bb on Xylophone is dead. Interesting 3/5. I had a 2/5 built up in my home in my college days. lots of fun.
Yep! But the organ hadn’t been installed long when this was shot :)
The tibia was removed and replaced with a diapason as it was restored and then installed in a church. The organ originally was installed in the Art Cinema, Bury, UK
Thanks for watching! Tom
Thank You.
You’re welcome - thanks for watching! Tom
'3C' was also the description of the organ in the Palladium cinema in Copenhagen. I have heard that the 'C' refers to it being only a 'coupler manual'. What actually is a coupler manual and why have it?
A coupler manual is a 3rd keyboard designed to make a smaller organ eg a 2/8 look larger and add a bit more functionality for the organist.
Often Manual III offers a small set of stops, maybe a percussion and couplers from the Solo and accomp manuals
That's a very nice sounding Chysoglott, sounds/looks like vibrato is always on?
Yes I noticed the vibrato was on, presume they’ll get on/off sorted out :)
Tom
Interesting enough the Percussion instruments sou great with Full Organ mode if you're playing Solo Organ Repertoire by Bach.
That would certainly raise some eyebrows!
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Hi - thanks for the great comments.
All PDFs are only available now via Patreon upon signup for Silver Level or above. Years ago PDFs were free but it takes time to produce quality PDFs I'm sure you'll understand.
I would simply signup for a fresh Patreon account - it's a relatively simple sign-up process.
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Regards
Tom
Lovely tutorial as always Tom! :-), very informative. Though, I do have one question if you don't mind me asking... and that is what's the name of that piece you were playing @ 7:50? (the blackpool-ey sounding one) and if you have a full version performance of it? I love the sound and very up-lifting too. :-)
Cheers!
Martin
Thanks Martin for the great comments! The piece at 7:50 is 'Ain't She Sweet' an old 20's popular number - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ain%27t_She_Sweet
Thanks - Tom
That chrysoglott sounds like a vibraphone I like it because on the Wurlitzer in my town such is a 4/32 Wurlitzer we have on the tremulants a trem that turns the chrysoglott into a vibraphone so is the vibrato inteninal or not
Yes it is Vibraphone like in tone.
4/32 Wurlitzer? I’m jealous!
Keyboard Skills Pro if you want to see it in action look up the UA-cam channel Ryan hardy he is the organist there and I know him and this wulizer is in the Fargo theater in Fargo north Dakota
Ill take a look - never played any theatre organs in the USA. One day!
Keyboard Skills Pro I forgot to mention they also have a chapter it is the red river American theater organ socitiy or rratos for shot. I can't wait tell the next theater organ video
Yes I’ve heard of that ATOS chapter. Hope to do a few more videos his Autumn on counter melody, runs / fills and more registrations
What about those Colored stops that have the color names written on them?
Those are for the organist to choose the colour of the jelly mould light surround. This was a popular feature of some theatre organs during the 1930s Art Deco era.
@@KeyboardSkillsPro They're actually light switches.
Yes the cycle was on auto so would fade between hues or you could select manually.
Here's an example...facebook.com/TCCOC/videos/compton-colour-changing-at-the-barn/1002542626463525/
Thank you for the video Tom. Whats the name of the song at 0:40?
Lucia erse it's called that's entertainment
That’s Entertainment - glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching! Tom
What do the tabs with the odd colors do?
The multi coloured stops were for the glass surround originally on certain organs. The ‘jelly mould’ as it got nicknamed, was popular in 1930s cinema a la Art Deco.
The colours could automatically cycle or the organist could choose a suitable colour for the music.
Thanks for watching! Tom
Whats the first song called?
During the titles / text is ‘That’s Entertainment’
The opening of the video lesson is a bit of improvisation :)
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Thanks!
How about registration on bigger organs (17+ ranks) with stops like the post horn/ English horn?
Great idea but it’s difficult to get access to those sizes - biggest in the U.K. are only about 20-25 ranks.
I’ve done a registration video on a 2/11 Wurlitzer which you can see on my channel
Thanks for watching - Tom
Here’s the link: Basic Theatre Organ Registrations - ua-cam.com/video/jTLkGZu2Bh8/v-deo.html
Keyboard Skills Pro I've already seen every your theatre organ videos, that are very useful. Unfortunately I live in Italy where there is only a 2/7 WurliTzer (style E) at about 8 hours of travel from my house. I play on Hauptwerk the 3/17 freedom Morton sampleset with 2 keyboards (one divided in a half) and an octave pedalboard. Really thank you for these videos because they helped a lot (I'm totally self taught on keyboards, but i study music and trumpet in a school from when i was 8)
Glad you’ve enjoyed them - more coming during 2018! I didn’t know a Wurlitzer had made it to Italy? Where is it located? Good luck with your musical studies.
Tom
It's located in a factory of an organ builder in Modena, here's a video (at that time it was playable only by midi, now is totally usable) ua-cam.com/video/FrqcOHOmer4/v-deo.html. The sheet over the console says: Wurlitzer opus 1630, american production, year 1927 unique example in Italy of a theatre organ
We yanks love you guys but we're always going to make fun of how you guys talk, like..."cinamer awgan"! Pretty interesting video though!
Thanks - we English do the same to you guys!
@@KeyboardSkillsPro Would any of us have it any other way?? :D But if we could just get you guys to properly pronounce that awesome convertible in my garage that you build but name after an American cat! LOL!
+Andork Kuomo 😀
@@analogueavenue Almost. The g is pronounced. Hag war more or less short A's . I wish I knew the notation linguists use for exact pronunciation.
I enjoy our little differences and uniqueness... I appreciate the differences in dialect.