1847 Ferris-Davis Organ - Round Lake Auditorium - Round Lake, New York
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Brent Johnson, Matthew Bellocchio (name mispronounced in video), Ryan Bartosiewicz, and Craig Williams explore the 1847 organ of Round Lake Auditorium in Round Lake, New York. The organ was originally built for Calvary Church in Manhattan.
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You the man, Craig!
I love the Round Lake organ and always at least once try to get out there every summer to hear it. Such a gentle giant with a totally satisfying but unique sound. It is easy to identify this organ on any recordings. I have been attending recitals since 1974 when I heard Dana Robinson play on the series. Lots of great memories here. And the village itself is beautiful. The village and the organ have come a long ways since then.
I was the Andover employee who installed the replacement Great 2nd 4' Principal with Bob Newton so many years ago. It was wretchedly hot and we both dripped with sweat. But Edna Van Duzee was so thrilled. She was truly the organs guardian angel.
Edna was the face of the Auditorium and organ for a very long time, but Helen Hirahara is an often overlooked guardian angel as well. When the organ was at its worst and there was zero budget to do anything about it, she hand washed pipes out on the lawn and learned how to craft and replace broken tracker rods with her husband and son until money became available for restoration. I loved Matthew's blurb about the upside of neglect when thinking about this organ...if there was any budget at all to renovate it in the early 20th century it would probably now sound like a Skinner.
Especially enjoyed this video since I live just up the road from Round Lake and get to hear this organ often. Round Lake is a quaint little village, full of tiny victorian houses that were originally built as 'summer camps'. The town park is the site of several outstanding annual art and antique shows, and there is a really outstanding restaurant just around the corner from the auditorium. A gem of a place that very few people know about!
One of my favorite places and organs; so glad you made this video. Hope you (or others) will return for recording the organ back in the room.
Great job displaying this truly historic American instrument!!
Thank you for showing the organ and Craig Willams for playing
Way back some time in the 80's on the way to an OHS convention, Round Lake had a program on Sunday night, I stopped to hear it. It was wonderful. When you posted the video from Great Barrington, I hoped you would stop here. I recently had the opportunity to re-connect with the organ in a former congregation in NJ, a 1928 Moller, thanks to benign neglect, tonally it has not changed with the exception of a reed that was added, (a cornopean) and a zimbelstern. It is 95 years old, in regular use. The current organist is very proud of it and a project to make repairs to the console is in the works for this summer.
Thank you. Such a hardy instrument.
I think it sounds better with the microphones the way they are. I love hearing that sound that the Organ makes when he presses the key is that the mechanical action works? I guess you could say.
I have played this organ it was most interesting because it is in an old church related camp meeting. The Wesley brothers and many Methodist followers had summer services services here. B
What a fascinating instrument! I was very pleased that the four contributors were aware of the characteristics of English organs and the work of William Hill prior to 1850. So much of this instrument makes sense when compared with contemporary instruments in England. It original position in a western gallery - this would have been normal for Anglican churches from the 1660s till 1850s ( - apart from cathedrals where the smaller organs of the period were found on choir screens). Traditionally only the psalm was sung by the congregation as hymns were not used and all this changed with the gothic revival in architecture and the use of choral services in parish churches. As one commentator said - this let to moving organs to chancels to be near choirs. These were supposed to lead congregation, but all too often the organ's sound failed to support congregational singing as it and the choir were in another room!
If this instrument is rare in the US - it would be hard to find any organ of similar date and size in the UK surviving in anything like original condition. As with this organ, the G compass was replaced, swell organs enlarged below tenor C and everything squeezed into organ chambers which hampered the sound filling any church. The organ must be a very good indication of what an instrument by Hill or perhaps Holdich sounded like before the Hill/Gauntlett revolution which adopted the C compass and added independent pedal organs and a full compass swell.
The specification of the great with diapasons of two strengths, tierce mixtures to support low pressure reeds in the treble, sweetly voiced flutes and a clear but not brutal diapason chorus does sound so familiar of the few surviving organs here. The unenclosed choir again was typical of the time and the cremona the preferred reed. Interesting to flutes with wooden bases and metal chimney flutes in the trebles. Where pedal stops were installed they tended to be lightly blown Open Wood with a complementary Bourdon - nothing like the character of these stops in the 20th century. The swell reeds did sound bright and I thought the organist deserved a medal for navigating the pitfalls.
There are similar problems on the former barrel organ built by Holdich for the Church of Easton on the Hill in 1850 - see the link www.npor.org.uk/survey/N03476.
Another comparison might be the Renn and Boston organ at St Philip's Salford of 1829 www.npor.org.uk/survey/N06094
You can understand the problems Mendelssohn had finding organs in London in 1830 for playing Bach or his own works! By the late 1840s things were changing and the 3 manual organ built for the chapel of Radley College makes an interesting comparison - it would not be a bad specification today. Alas it was swept way in the Victorian era - by Telford of Dublin. ua-cam.com/video/fAS0gG_Fu4M/v-deo.html
Quite a thought that one might need to travel to New York state to ear the authentic sounds of an English organ. So pleased this instrument is in good hands - of the builders and the organist!
Nice
Just a note - your UA-cam link redirects to this video.
Many thanks, i will try and find the right link!@@thebog11
If you are willing to take a trip out to Kansas, a recently relocated and restored 1926 Estey organ just had it's dedication concert today at it's new home, which is Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Colwich, KS.
This accident shows the difference of how different an organ sounds at the console and in the space, you need to get a pcm recorder like a Tascam DR-60DMKII (I have one) wich is a great recorder that stores the audio on an sd card, so if something goes wrong like in this case you can still have a backup on the sd card and it's cheap too!
It was an SD card that had the problem!
I'd be silencing the bottom octave of that Cremona to resolve the pedal issue when accompanying on the swell! Was it a Tenor C Cremona originally? Great channel & excellent demonstrations of interesting organs! Keep up the good work!
I play this organ frequently and you learn to be very, very careful when playing below Tenor C on the Swell.
That's one huge organ
Any plans to do a video on the 1962 Von Beckerath at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Pittsburgh, Pa? I was told by a member of the AGO that he considered it his magnum opus.