watch the organ series from the beginning with this playlist here ua-cam.com/play/PLluPQLh1xzlI7EMB5qIxDd_1OLE-Z_kyC.html As for tuning. Yep it's a bit out. It's partially purposeful I have done it all by ear to be a bit "wide" like a piano or guitar do it by ear if it's too in tune it gets a bit too good and blando. I know it sounds silly but for me you canny beat a bit of wide tuning, you canny beat a slightly out of tune piano in the back of the pub! Call me crazy but I prefer that to a perfectly tuned one eeek.
Maybe we could put our heads(and wallets) together and build a SUPER LOW BASS NOTE for it... (well, I SHOULD say 'maybe YOU could build it LOL" but I mean monetarily by using the word 'we' )like have a separate compressed air tank and pipe that's tuned to an octave (or a half an octave if a full one isn't possible lol) lower than the D(?) that is the lowest key possible on this amazing behemoth!!! You could flatten the entire building with the press of with key LOL... but seriously... you can already get some low bass notes on a pipe organ, so why not push it a bit further... you are the ONLY PERSON ON EARTH right now that not only has the knowledge but the a REAL REASON to do it.... so WHY NOT?!?!? - Make a video about it and brainstorm what it would take to build and how much and lets see if people are willing to put together the funds to make it... and if it's popular enough you could even make more than one note... and to tune it all you really have to do is look at the other pipes on the note just at the higher octaves and see if you can figure out the best length and circumference of the pipe and start from there..... :) - I'm just a huge bass-head and this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to build and you could even get yourself into the GUINNESS WORLD RECORD BOOK for the LOW BASS NOTE ON A PIPE ORGAN lol :D You'd get a bunch of free press and hopefully bring in some more visitors to the museum.... I would LOVE to be able to visit your museum, but that pond is a hell of a swim :D
Can you please entitle one of your albums “You don’t know what you’re doing”? 😂 This entire project is such a tribute to ignoring the naysayers and applying persistence combined with intelligence. Such a fantastic result! 🎉
The sequel must be called "he knows what he is doing". He has taken 30 more years in the future this organ. Morden pieces organs are midi nowadays. I wait for the videos where he starts to play with registers of the organs and the pedalboard
Only semi-related but have you heard Sam's cover of Alice Deejay - Better off Alone? It's one of his older videos but it's an absolute *gem* of a cover/remake. I listen to it all the time and never get sick of it.
The icing on the cake is the ballast on the air reservoir bouncing up and down with the tune. Looks like the organ is having a fun little dance to its own music ^^
@@gabrielecossettini2923 Maybe that particular church didn't have the funds to buy a motor blower, maybe the minister was a traditionalist or thought it was good traning for the boys or something. But I'm sure electric motors were available in the 50s and have been for quite some time before.
@@andreasu.3546 Me too I'm sure that electric motors were available but remember that in Italy in the '50 we were out of the WWII and the Otgan builders are very traditionalist. Some small organs have pedals to move the bellows by the organist or one boy who pump the air and move the registers. (I was speaking about that with an organ teacher in my hometown) we have organs who had 150 year or more around my living place.
The world needs more eccentric, motivated and skilled young people like you keeping old stuff alive at the same time as putting a new twist on it. Bravo!
It's not like there aren't any of us around... we do exist, there just seems to be less and less of us each year. I have worked around pipe organs on a voluntary basis since I left school just over 15 years ago. The trouble is, it's a novelty to people and it wears off. Even though people may see them on UA-cam, they won't come to a concert and support it, which is tragic as headphones or speakers cannot create the same sound as a live concert. Therefore, they miss out on the experience of listening to a pipe organ in a nice big acoustic, whether classical or theatre. Many people these days find instrumental music strange, and the sound of pipe organs is completely alien to them, outside of "Toccata and Fugue in Dm", funerals, and "I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside". There were many comments on social media during and after the Queen's funeral about the pipe organ at Westminster Abbey being out of tune and sounding hideous, but in reality, the organ sounded exactly as it should have since it was tuned by the best in the business and played by some of the best in the business. The pitches and tones involved in a pipe organ are no longer familiar to people like they were in the past. We no longer go to church, we no longer attend organ concerts, and we don't have the Mighty Wurlitzers and Comptons at our local cinema anymore. They aren't on the radio either in any capacity, and you'll be hard-pressed to find a CD of a pipe organ or theatre organ music in a big-name music shop. Doesn't that sound bleak? It is for this reason that the organ scene pays close attention to channels like this and sometimes gives well-meaning, but perhaps unwanted advice. "Rising stars" are quickly picked up and proclaimed "the saviour of the organ" - not going to happen. Daft projects like this (no offence), which are fun and quirky, on a channel that has a following, and are presented by someone who has a personality are what helps to get the instrument noticed amongst a wider audience. Those who are genuinely interested will attend an organ concert and hopefully hear a good performance. So for anyone who has managed to make their way to the end of this thread, if there is an organ concert near you (google is your friend) then pop by. They are often free or inexpensive, and if your lucky, it might be a cinema organ!
This reminds me of visiting The Organ Grinder restaurant in Portland Oregon back in the early 1980s. The pizza place was built around a full Wurlitzer pipe organ with all the add ons. Drums, flutes, pipes, reeds, the whole kit and caboodle. I feel that Sam has really recaptured the spirit of that long closed place.
I imagine you standing on front of the mirror. Talking to yourself: " what the heck are you doin' mate? What is all this?" And then you realise all this makes so many people incredibly happy and entertained and you rock and we love you!!
still cant imagine having one of organs in a regular, no the smelled house, piping sound like that in almost every room! assuming they could play, must of been something to hear?
Their not called steam organs,newer days their usually powered by an electric blower, long ago they used to be powered by a steam engine, not any longer
@@drphipshiolidge fair doos! Yes I get there would be some safety advantage using compressed air rather that steam. I just stated what I know them as. Spent a lot of time near them as a kid going around these fairs. Or wherever the the could bring one in? Usually sat there listening to one.
Marvelous! This is what the Museum of Everything else is all about! Turning something that was going to be junk or forgotten into something new and beautiful. As much art as tech museum. :) Thanks Sam for working as hard as you do to bring us these treasures.
This pipe organ needs it's own UA-cam channel, and I really mean that. Something like this could drive more subs, which can lead to more people finding out about and supporting the museum. Sam, you do a lot of amazing work, but this is something that I think has greater mass-appeal beyond us electronic and synth nerds.
Issue is just a straight up UA-cam channel just of the organ playing will be tough to get traction. So I probably won't do that. But a few select songs on this channel. Who knows it ain't done yet cheers
Thank you. Marvelous instrument reignited by an extraordinary guy!!! I can’t wait to visit your museum someday when I get the chance to fly over the pond.
Wonderful! :D You should get it to play the Merry Go Round music from RollerCoaster Tycoon 1/2. I think it's a mix of a dozen or so different organ tracks.
Die Regimentskinder Marsch Heyken's Serenade Die schöne Spanierin Dornröschens Brautfahrt Tales from the Vienna Woods Slavonic Dance (ngl fam i have no idea what part but that's what the wiki says so like idk) Das Alpenhorn Poet & Peasant Overture Waltz Medley - The Blue Danube Bella Bella Bimba
Playing a march like this with the wide tuning makes it sound a lot like a band organ you'd find with a carousel at an amusement park, just missing the automated percussion
For someone that doesn't know what they're doing you seem to be doing pretty bloody good. I love your original music especially shock horror and waiting for the world to end and watching the whole church organ series has been a pleasure. Thanks sam for your originality and enthusiasm. Please keep these videos coming.
I think we can definitely say "you do know what you're doing" 😉 There's something I've noticed though and I can't work out whether it's me, or that this is what organ music sounds like, but it definitely sounds better with slower music, almost like when it's playing fast the valves aren't open long enough for the pipes to make the correct sound, or something. It's hard to explain, but it feels like the organist is rushing and tripping over their own fingers. Play some big, dramatic organ music on it. The stuff they belt out in a church at full volume. That'll get the windows rattling 😁
Sam, you are a remarkable man! You brought these pipes back to life in a way their makers never could have imagined. They have had quiet an interesting journey.
I love looking at that control box on top of the resivor go up and down as different amounts of pipes play at once. Also a really full sound, sounds like an American fotoplayer!
Unfortunately, no giant balloons came out at the end. Oh well, still great though. I had an organist in Salisbury tell me about a year ago, that pipe organs are basically classical / historical synthesizers! They have the same task of replicating other instruments (one uses air and a whole load of wood & metal and the other uses chips, circuits and frequencies).
Absolutely fantastic achievement Sam! As someone who thinks there needs to be more deep pipe organ bass lines in electronic music, I absolutely love this to pieces. I can't wait to hear what you and other artists can create combining them. What I've heard already is amazing enough. Also, I cannot even imagine how loud this must be in person. The bass must resonate in your chest. Can't wait for the neighbor complaints of pipe organ raves next door... lol. Just think... a modernized Wurlitzer theatre organ that incorporates electronic synths too!
A medium-sized pipe organ typically has 16' bass, which goes down to 32Hz. Big pipe organs have 32' bass, which goes down to 16Hz (more felt than heard). Dance music rarely goes lower than 40Hz. Most club sound systems aren't designed to play bass as deep as a pipe organ.
I love the fact you saved Windy Mindy from the scrap heap and the fact that we can hear songs played on it.... Well done Sam ! P.S. I think a couple of her windpipes are not well-tuned yet
Totally brilliant, well, well, well done guys, you’ve saved a piece of history and that’s really cool!!! Adrian (pipe organ builder in Bermuda) 😊😊😊😊😊😊🎶🎶🎶🎶💕
@LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER I could give you some hints to avoid wind pressure spikes if you are interested. I am an organist. Thank you for this organ series, these videos are awesome.
I think a future project should be to make a piece of music play on all the midi operated devices you have made, from Kosmo to the pipe organ. A kind of Midi symphony! )
This is Awesome.. this reminds me of my childhood, going to a pizza place in Portland Oregon, called the Organ Grinder... they sometimes played old silent movies along with the huge pipe organ.... all you need is to add is an automated mechanical percussion section.
Awesome, brilliant work, Sam! During its time in church this instrument would have played this very tune to accompany the hymn "God is our strength and refuge"!
You, the organ and this whole series are a delight and amazing! This video was mind blowingly awesome -- and amazingly out of tune - giving it a band organ feel more than a church organ one. But, it's absolutely unique and a one of a kind instrument -- a true work of art. BRAVO!
The opening chords are very reminiscent of Brian May’s rising-barberpole-effect chord progression on the guitar prelude/postlude on Queen’s “A Day at the Races”. (They also used a carousel organ recording to open “Brighton Rock”. Methinks Brian loves these instruments!)
I have had a little play on this, and the sound is a physical experience as well as musical, but to hear this production must be fantastic! Sam, you are amazing!
I can only imagine the sense of pride you feel from this my guy. Been a huge fan for years now and this has to be one of your coolest projects of all time. If I ever get a chance to visit the UK, the Museum is 100% going to be my top place to visit.
Awesome how you posted the full version of this march. A sound of a very happy pipe organ. Such an epic project which you shared you with all of us. Thanks soo much for the journey.
TIL, that the hymn "God is Our Strength and Refuge" uses "Dambusters March" as its tune. So, very cool sound and very fitting for this old bit of church kit. Thanks!
Literally brought tears to my eyes, humungous respect, a great project and it just proves it does not matter if “You don’t know what you’re doing”!!! thanks.
I wish the small pipes on the wall also had lights. Great job generally though 👏 looking forward to hearing it when the different tones can be played separately.
Not only did you show the naysayers that you could knock this out with ease, but you voluntarily brought an exciting bit of analogue magic to your normally synthesized world. What you have chosen to do with your life (?) is absolutely amazing. Please let me know how I can contribute.
Unbelievable! Truly epic journey from start to finish - fantastic to see the end product, and the labour, toil and appreciation that's gone into it makes it all the more sweeter for you, I bet :)
I'll be honest, I was a bit worried about the acoustics of housing the organ in such a small room (as I'm assuming it's meant to fill a sanctuary). But hot damn, this thing sounds amazing! The smallness of the room actually seems to give it a very pleasant warmth with good response.
watch the organ series from the beginning with this playlist here ua-cam.com/play/PLluPQLh1xzlI7EMB5qIxDd_1OLE-Z_kyC.html
As for tuning. Yep it's a bit out. It's partially purposeful I have done it all by ear to be a bit "wide" like a piano or guitar do it by ear if it's too in tune it gets a bit too good and blando. I know it sounds silly but for me you canny beat a bit of wide tuning, you canny beat a slightly out of tune piano in the back of the pub! Call me crazy but I prefer that to a perfectly tuned one eeek.
Glorious! Surely to be a regular feature in your output to UA-cam.
Flippin' love this project.
Joan and her husband would be proud, I'm sure of it!
you dunno wat ya doin bro.... 🤬
Maybe we could put our heads(and wallets) together and build a SUPER LOW BASS NOTE for it... (well, I SHOULD say 'maybe YOU could build it LOL" but I mean monetarily by using the word 'we' )like have a separate compressed air tank and pipe that's tuned to an octave (or a half an octave if a full one isn't possible lol) lower than the D(?) that is the lowest key possible on this amazing behemoth!!! You could flatten the entire building with the press of with key LOL... but seriously... you can already get some low bass notes on a pipe organ, so why not push it a bit further... you are the ONLY PERSON ON EARTH right now that not only has the knowledge but the a REAL REASON to do it.... so WHY NOT?!?!? - Make a video about it and brainstorm what it would take to build and how much and lets see if people are willing to put together the funds to make it... and if it's popular enough you could even make more than one note...
and to tune it all you really have to do is look at the other pipes on the note just at the higher octaves and see if you can figure out the best length and circumference of the pipe and start from there..... :) - I'm just a huge bass-head and this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to build and you could even get yourself into the GUINNESS WORLD RECORD BOOK for the LOW BASS NOTE ON A PIPE ORGAN lol :D You'd get a bunch of free press and hopefully bring in some more visitors to the museum.... I would LOVE to be able to visit your museum, but that pond is a hell of a swim :D
@@Nobe_Oddy I am on the hunt for some 32foot bourdons as the ones on the organ are 16foot so basically a whole octave down
I love the fact that you can see the accumulator (or whatever it's called) in the background going up and down as the organ plays ;)
thanks thought i was seeing things
Was going to say the same thing. The light show looks great, but the bellows bopping along to this jaunty tune really brings it to life
the video is 3 days old?
@@AnalogDude_ premiere
Yeah I really want to stick some giant googly eyes on that thing XD
Can you please entitle one of your albums “You don’t know what you’re doing”? 😂
This entire project is such a tribute to ignoring the naysayers and applying persistence combined with intelligence. Such a fantastic result! 🎉
The sequel must be called "he knows what he is doing".
He has taken 30 more years in the future this organ. Morden pieces organs are midi nowadays. I wait for the videos where he starts to play with registers of the organs and the pedalboard
Fantastic idea lol
Reminiscent of the FilmJoy tag line "No one knows what they're doing", and a similar sentiment
ua-cam.com/video/oo4H-u3UVhY/v-deo.html
good idea!
Only semi-related but have you heard Sam's cover of Alice Deejay - Better off Alone? It's one of his older videos but it's an absolute *gem* of a cover/remake. I listen to it all the time and never get sick of it.
The icing on the cake is the ballast on the air reservoir bouncing up and down with the tune. Looks like the organ is having a fun little dance to its own music ^^
Remember that 50/60 years ago there where people moving the bellows. 😅
@@gabrielecossettini2923 More like 150 years ago.
@@andreasu.3546 my dad isn't that old. He used to be one of the bellows boys in his church in 1950's
@@gabrielecossettini2923 Maybe that particular church didn't have the funds to buy a motor blower, maybe the minister was a traditionalist or thought it was good traning for the boys or something. But I'm sure electric motors were available in the 50s and have been for quite some time before.
@@andreasu.3546 Me too I'm sure that electric motors were available but remember that in Italy in the '50 we were out of the WWII and the Otgan builders are very traditionalist. Some small organs have pedals to move the bellows by the organist or one boy who pump the air and move the registers. (I was speaking about that with an organ teacher in my hometown) we have organs who had 150 year or more around my living place.
The world needs more eccentric, motivated and skilled young people like you keeping old stuff alive at the same time as putting a new twist on it.
Bravo!
It's not like there aren't any of us around... we do exist, there just seems to be less and less of us each year. I have worked around pipe organs on a voluntary basis since I left school just over 15 years ago. The trouble is, it's a novelty to people and it wears off. Even though people may see them on UA-cam, they won't come to a concert and support it, which is tragic as headphones or speakers cannot create the same sound as a live concert. Therefore, they miss out on the experience of listening to a pipe organ in a nice big acoustic, whether classical or theatre.
Many people these days find instrumental music strange, and the sound of pipe organs is completely alien to them, outside of "Toccata and Fugue in Dm", funerals, and "I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside".
There were many comments on social media during and after the Queen's funeral about the pipe organ at Westminster Abbey being out of tune and sounding hideous, but in reality, the organ sounded exactly as it should have since it was tuned by the best in the business and played by some of the best in the business.
The pitches and tones involved in a pipe organ are no longer familiar to people like they were in the past. We no longer go to church, we no longer attend organ concerts, and we don't have the Mighty Wurlitzers and Comptons at our local cinema anymore. They aren't on the radio either in any capacity, and you'll be hard-pressed to find a CD of a pipe organ or theatre organ music in a big-name music shop.
Doesn't that sound bleak? It is for this reason that the organ scene pays close attention to channels like this and sometimes gives well-meaning, but perhaps unwanted advice. "Rising stars" are quickly picked up and proclaimed "the saviour of the organ" - not going to happen. Daft projects like this (no offence), which are fun and quirky, on a channel that has a following, and are presented by someone who has a personality are what helps to get the instrument noticed amongst a wider audience. Those who are genuinely interested will attend an organ concert and hopefully hear a good performance.
So for anyone who has managed to make their way to the end of this thread, if there is an organ concert near you (google is your friend) then pop by. They are often free or inexpensive, and if your lucky, it might be a cinema organ!
For someone who doesn't know what he's doing, you sure did renovate and rebuild a church organ.
Sam certainly knows what he's doing! Hat's off you legend!
Doesn't that make it all worthwhile? Lovely!
This reminds me of visiting The Organ Grinder restaurant in Portland Oregon back in the early 1980s. The pizza place was built around a full Wurlitzer pipe organ with all the add ons. Drums, flutes, pipes, reeds, the whole kit and caboodle. I feel that Sam has really recaptured the spirit of that long closed place.
I imagine you standing on front of the mirror. Talking to yourself: " what the heck are you doin' mate? What is all this?" And then you realise all this makes so many people incredibly happy and entertained and you rock and we love you!!
This whole project has been amazing to watch, great to see your efforts pay off in a SPECTACULAR way!
still cant imagine having one of organs in a regular, no the smelled house, piping sound like that in almost every room! assuming they could play, must of been something to hear?
I hope you extend this behemoth with cymbals, wood blocks, and all the silly stuff you get with a theatre organ.
Gotta have a slide whistle!
YES!!!!!! Xxxx
Add some Furbies....
The law: You are allowed to play instruments between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m.
My neighbours at 7:01:
Bloody impressive for a chap who don’t know what he’s doing.
Hats off to you mate! Looking forward to hearing more.
You should upload one organ piece every Sunday.
Yes that is the best idea! That would certainly only add to the greatness of this channel and please so many people to the core!
Remind me of a steam organ at a steam fair! Awesome and great stuff! Thank you!
Their not called steam organs,newer days their usually powered by an electric blower, long ago they used to be powered by a steam engine, not any longer
@@drphipshiolidge fair doos! Yes I get there would be some safety advantage using compressed air rather that steam. I just stated what I know them as. Spent a lot of time near them as a kid going around these fairs. Or wherever the the could bring one in? Usually sat there listening to one.
the "weight" on the bellows is in serious need for some big wiggly eyes on its two knobs. I just love how it "dances" to the beat
Marvelous! This is what the Museum of Everything else is all about! Turning something that was going to be junk or forgotten into something new and beautiful. As much art as tech museum. :) Thanks Sam for working as hard as you do to bring us these treasures.
This pipe organ needs it's own UA-cam channel, and I really mean that. Something like this could drive more subs, which can lead to more people finding out about and supporting the museum. Sam, you do a lot of amazing work, but this is something that I think has greater mass-appeal beyond us electronic and synth nerds.
Issue is just a straight up UA-cam channel just of the organ playing will be tough to get traction. So I probably won't do that. But a few select songs on this channel. Who knows it ain't done yet cheers
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Are projects ever "done". ;) But thanks for the reply! Guess I see your point!
Thank you. Marvelous instrument reignited by an extraordinary guy!!! I can’t wait to visit your museum someday when I get the chance to fly over the pond.
Wonderful! :D You should get it to play the Merry Go Round music from RollerCoaster Tycoon 1/2. I think it's a mix of a dozen or so different organ tracks.
Die Regimentskinder Marsch
Heyken's Serenade
Die schöne Spanierin
Dornröschens Brautfahrt
Tales from the Vienna Woods
Slavonic Dance (ngl fam i have no idea what part but that's what the wiki says so like idk)
Das Alpenhorn
Poet & Peasant Overture
Waltz Medley - The Blue Danube
Bella Bella Bimba
Please do this Sam. You could have an entire other channel with hundreds of videos of the organ just playing midi files.
@@jpjapers agree 💯
I immediately thought this as well
Thought my whims were too niche to suggest but yes please!
What a brilliant sounding machine 🎉
Leds were worth it. Love it :)
Great restoration job! Was definitely worth spending the extra time to wire the LEDs. Wouldn’t quite look the same without them.
I love watching the wind chest go up and down a little as the pressure changes.
"You're never gonna do it Sam!".....Yer....about that! Top work dude!
Jubilant. The organ angels in heaven are dancing with you!
Playing a march like this with the wide tuning makes it sound a lot like a band organ you'd find with a carousel at an amusement park, just missing the automated percussion
I like how the whole thing jumps, vibrates and oscillates with its pipes. Looks like it's dancing! :D
I just love the way the weight bounces up and down as it keeps the pressure on the bellows.
No one else could have done this, Sam. I hope you know how singular your achievements are!!!
Simply amazing. Halloween is coming... we need something dark and moody played on that amazing beast of sound and light.
For someone that doesn't know what they're doing you seem to be doing pretty bloody good. I love your original music especially shock horror and waiting for the world to end and watching the whole church organ series has been a pleasure. Thanks sam for your originality and enthusiasm. Please keep these videos coming.
The accumulator Defiantly needs some bobbleheads or those Hula girl dashboard ornaments to wobble along with it.😁
I think we can definitely say "you do know what you're doing" 😉
There's something I've noticed though and I can't work out whether it's me, or that this is what organ music sounds like, but it definitely sounds better with slower music, almost like when it's playing fast the valves aren't open long enough for the pipes to make the correct sound, or something. It's hard to explain, but it feels like the organist is rushing and tripping over their own fingers.
Play some big, dramatic organ music on it. The stuff they belt out in a church at full volume. That'll get the windows rattling 😁
What a wonderful thing to bring back to life. Organ is happy and new again. 🙂
素晴らしい演奏ありがとうございました。
Thank you for your wonderful performance.
I think one of the coolest maddest projects I've seen on the Internet
Have you seen Wintergatan's Marble Machine?
Sam, you are a remarkable man! You brought these pipes back to life in a way their makers never could have imagined. They have had quiet an interesting journey.
That device with the two black dials on top of the bellows in the back, slowly going up and down, looks like a friendly robot :)
You DO know what you're doing and I loved this whole epic drama! Quite obviously this organ is overjoyed to be playing music again :)
For someone who clearly doesn't know what they are doing, this is astounding. Well done, mate, the result so far is facking awesome!
Incredible.
I love Pipe organs.
They sound so rich and beautiful 😍
This either stirs feelings of abject terror or heartwarming nostalgia.
I love looking at that control box on top of the resivor go up and down as different amounts of pipes play at once. Also a really full sound, sounds like an American fotoplayer!
Unfortunately, no giant balloons came out at the end. Oh well, still great though.
I had an organist in Salisbury tell me about a year ago, that pipe organs are basically classical / historical synthesizers! They have the same task of replicating other instruments (one uses air and a whole load of wood & metal and the other uses chips, circuits and frequencies).
I bet this thing is epic in person, to feel that sound Resonating through your body must be awesome
Absolutely fantastic achievement Sam! As someone who thinks there needs to be more deep pipe organ bass lines in electronic music, I absolutely love this to pieces. I can't wait to hear what you and other artists can create combining them. What I've heard already is amazing enough. Also, I cannot even imagine how loud this must be in person. The bass must resonate in your chest. Can't wait for the neighbor complaints of pipe organ raves next door... lol. Just think... a modernized Wurlitzer theatre organ that incorporates electronic synths too!
A medium-sized pipe organ typically has 16' bass, which goes down to 32Hz. Big pipe organs have 32' bass, which goes down to 16Hz (more felt than heard). Dance music rarely goes lower than 40Hz. Most club sound systems aren't designed to play bass as deep as a pipe organ.
I love the fact you saved Windy Mindy from the scrap heap and the fact that we can hear songs played on it.... Well done Sam !
P.S. I think a couple of her windpipes are not well-tuned yet
Please, don’t tune it any better! The pitch discrepancies are part of the iconic sound! Kind of like analog oscillator drift. No auto tune!
I am so excited, I hope you gift us a whole organ concert! :)
Thanks for all the work with the organ project.
Totally brilliant, well, well, well done guys, you’ve saved a piece of history and that’s really cool!!! Adrian (pipe organ builder in Bermuda) 😊😊😊😊😊😊🎶🎶🎶🎶💕
You have made great progress on this organ. It's amazing how much work you have put into it. 32 foot pipes would make it epic. Nice demo piece!
I am impressed at your tenacity into building this pipe organ. I take my hats off when when I travel to England, I will drop by.
This sounds like the organ music from the merry-go-round in Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 and 2
It's alive!
@LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER I could give you some hints to avoid wind pressure spikes if you are interested.
I am an organist. Thank you for this organ series, these videos are awesome.
I think a future project should be to make a piece of music play on all the midi operated devices you have made, from Kosmo to the pipe organ. A kind of Midi symphony! )
It's on its way!
Bloody ‘ell!
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Amazing! Thankyou :) Xxx Your an inspiration
❤❤❤❤ We will need Carols very soon; the old traditional ones would sound great on the organ.
This is Awesome.. this reminds me of my childhood, going to a pizza place in Portland Oregon, called the Organ Grinder... they sometimes played old silent movies along with the huge pipe organ.... all you need is to add is an automated mechanical percussion section.
Love the "off by one" hymn numbering on the wall 😆
Awesome, brilliant work, Sam! During its time in church this instrument would have played this very tune to accompany the hymn "God is our strength and refuge"!
Thanks!
You must be so proud of your achievements . A very well done.
Fantastic. What a way to bring a proper top-off to the Organ Project. Great stuff!
OMG! You crazy boy, your work was amazing and the result AMAZING to the cube... It's a shame your museum is a long trip from home...
The bellow moving up and down is awesome. Dude, nice work!!!
You, the organ and this whole series are a delight and amazing! This video was mind blowingly awesome -- and amazingly out of tune - giving it a band organ feel more than a church organ one. But, it's absolutely unique and a one of a kind instrument -- a true work of art.
BRAVO!
that bouncy thing in the background DEFINITELY needs a pair of huge googly eyes.
The stings on the dancing string on the big pipe is a nice indicator.
This is perhaps the greatest thing so far.
Dambusters is a perennial favorite, sounds amazing on tutti!
This is such a wonderful piece to pick to play! Really showcases how well of a job you did 'restoring' this beast.
i love how its slightly detuned. It gives it a theatre organ sound!
Well done. That’s brilliant. Working so well now.
The opening chords are very reminiscent of Brian May’s rising-barberpole-effect chord progression on the guitar prelude/postlude on Queen’s “A Day at the Races”. (They also used a carousel organ recording to open “Brighton Rock”. Methinks Brian loves these instruments!)
This so needs to tour around the Country in a big van! Epic. Well done
i think the next logical step is flight of the valkyries
I have had a little play on this, and the sound is a physical experience as well as musical, but to hear this production must be fantastic!
Sam, you are amazing!
This really reminds me of those fairground organs you see at steam rallies, this tune is an old favourite on those!
I can only imagine the sense of pride you feel from this my guy. Been a huge fan for years now and this has to be one of your coolest projects of all time.
If I ever get a chance to visit the UK, the Museum is 100% going to be my top place to visit.
Agreed as to 'in tune'...
In the 80s, I was in an 'industrial damage' band that never tuned up.
We were 'an acquired taste'...
There's a Philip Glass song from the movie called Koyaanisqatsi that would sound incredible on this organ.
Just need a male choir now!
Awesome how you posted the full version of this march. A sound of a very happy pipe organ. Such an epic project which you shared you with all of us. Thanks soo much for the journey.
Sam, you do know what you’re doing!
Thanks to your insight about wiring in the LED’s, this video was as fun to watch as it was to listen to!!!
TIL, that the hymn "God is Our Strength and Refuge" uses "Dambusters March" as its tune.
So, very cool sound and very fitting for this old bit of church kit. Thanks!
Literally brought tears to my eyes, humungous respect, a great project and it just proves it does not matter if “You don’t know what you’re doing”!!! thanks.
I wish I "didn't know what I was doing" like Sam, maybe I could build something as awesome as this...
I wish the small pipes on the wall also had lights. Great job generally though 👏 looking forward to hearing it when the different tones can be played separately.
so beautiful
Well, fully expecting a more 'classical' rendition from a church organ but this theatre style was fantastic!! Just need a tremolo to really have fun!
From now on I will refer to obsolete ultra-heavy lab equipment no longer as "boat anchor" but "bellows ballast". 🙂
Not only did you show the naysayers that you could knock this out with ease, but you voluntarily brought an exciting bit of analogue magic to your normally synthesized world. What you have chosen to do with your life (?) is absolutely amazing. Please let me know how I can contribute.
Nice job....
Absolutely awesome! It sounds amazing for someone who doesn't know what they're doing!
Unbelievable! Truly epic journey from start to finish - fantastic to see the end product, and the labour, toil and appreciation that's gone into it makes it all the more sweeter for you, I bet :)
Worth visiting just to listen to this majestic beast!
I'll be honest, I was a bit worried about the acoustics of housing the organ in such a small room (as I'm assuming it's meant to fill a sanctuary). But hot damn, this thing sounds amazing! The smallness of the room actually seems to give it a very pleasant warmth with good response.
Can you put googly eyes on the weight(?) in the background (the one with the red and blue pins)
Great job all around Sam!! Definitely getting carousel vibes on parts of this song.
From church organ to fairground organ in one incredible journey.