The Organ's Secret: The Mysterious Inner World of a Church Organ Uncovered
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- Опубліковано 16 тра 2019
- Join us on an extraordinary adventure inside St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden's majestic Catholic Church, where we uncover a mystical secret hidden within its grand hybrid organ. This video offers you a rare glimpse into the amazing church acoustics and architectural marvels of this historic venue.
Thanks to the generosity of the church's former organist, Gabriel Dessauer, we gained exclusive access not only to the colossal organ but also to its intricate mechanical tracker action. Our exploration takes an unexpected turn when we discover a secret room nestled within the organ, hiding astonishing treasures.
Concluding this unforgettable tour, witness a soul-stirring organ improvisation that showcases the instrument's extraordinary capabilities, leaving you in awe of the fusion of history, music, and mystery in this sacred space.
Dive into this hidden world of musical and architectural wonder with us and uncover the secrets that lie within St. Bonifatius. Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe for more unique discoveries.
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I am amazed at several comments regarding "too much talking" ~ for those people, who obviously need reminding, there are plenty of channels with just organ music. You may be surprised to know that some of us have always been intrigued about the workings of an organ, the action, the stops, the pipes, and Fraser's channel is a breath of fresh air, someone who can not only play, but also can explain in a way that is easy to understand, dotted with humour and is very enjoyable. Not only this, but he takes the time and effort to make a duplicate video in the German language.
Thank you Fraser.
Totally agree. Honestly sometimes I actually skip the music at the end, not because I don't like it or because I think he's not good at the instrument, but because the primary reason I am here is to hear his explanations about various things! And once he's done with the explanations, I mostly just want to move on to other videos I have queued up, cause I'm not really in the music-listening mindset.
Not that I think he should stop doing the music at the end of his videos! It's lovely. But having both talking and playing on this channel within the same videos, and being able to choose which part to focus on, is great.
I not only enjoyed the tour of the organ you provided, but I am also impressed by your improvisation skills that you so ably demonstrated at the end of your video. Btw, your wife is a very good videographer!
Very well said sir.
This video was so exciting for me to find because I was born in Wiesbaden. My Dad was career Air Force and we lived there 3 years. I have never returnd. I am not an organ enthusiasts but found this video to be very informative and enjoyed it very much.
I found it quite fascinating how everything was connected from the keyboard to all the pipes in the back.. What I'm wondering though is what generates the air?? And is it a constant pressure or does that increase or decrease depending on what stop, pedal or key is pressed..
Dear Fraser, fantastic video as always! Just one little suggestion: How about showing also a bit of the church you're in? Maybe just two, three shots from outside and also from the inside, just a few seconds, maybe as introduction to the video or something like that? Just to get a better feeling where you actually are and where the sound actually spreads ;-)
Adding to this suggestion, I'd love to hear a congregational sing along with this awesome instrument.
Elouise
Do you have any idea how difficult it would be to assemble and control a choir at each and every new organ that Fraser demonstrates. Leave him be!
I want this man’s job. Headphones don’t do this justice, when you can feel the music you know you’re there.
I appreciate how he honored the room's acoustics after each passage.
You can not resist the reverberation....it is amazing
It's hard to capture the bowel-blasting capacity of these organs in real life but you've done a damn good job.
As someone who knows nothing about the organ I like this man's style very much.... comes across as natural, friendly and enthusiastic about the subject. A fine communicator.
A big box-o-whistles. This gentleman is a very entertaining speaker. I enjoyed his comments and facial expressions very much.
When he hit that C major at 0:31, I was convinced a Saint-Saens symphony was going to follow.
At the end of the video where the music was huge and loud I had visions of Vincent Price being a mad scientist in front of the keyboard..
I played organ for 9 years in my youth. I haven't for 40 years. This presentation was simply delightfull and a blast to watch. Thank you!
Fraser, my dad was a church organist. As a kid I love the time we spent tuning the pipes to his satisfaction. Thanks for bringing back wonderful memories.
my father, an army officer ww2, was stationed there in wiesbaden immediately after the war, working with the ardelia hall project, collecting stolen artifacts. i am excited seeing part of this city's personality. makes it real. plus the music of the organ is very special. thanks.
24:50 I'm not crying, I... I.... I was just slicing an onion. Seriously Fraser, my GOODNESS! SO MOVING! Beautifully done, sir!
Pm
In Virginia, at the oldest church in the United States, I was listening to a pipe organ. I got a feeling in my soul that I was okay
Thanks Fraser!
This video really rang my bell!
I developed a love for pipe organs when I was a young man in the US Airforce and decided that I wanted to be involved in building them. E. Power Biggs was popular then in the organ world (small as it was in 1960) and he convinced me that the only real organ was a tracker organ (he actively hated and despised theater organs). That was a real problem for me as there were very few companies engaged in building tracker organs (or pipe organs of any kind) and none were willing, or able to, take me on. So I instead ventured into the electronic engineering world and did well, but the dream of building organs always remained with me.
I am now 78 years old and was shaken by the lovely and powerful sound this organ has. The electronic stops are, in my humble and uninformed view, a wonderful and natural addition to this organ.
I, too, detest theater Organs. I would like to go to Germany and see this one that has a 9-second reverberation..
I prefer theater organs. I don't think an organ is complete without Hope-Jones. In a church of course discretion is needed. Carillon, Glockenspiel, harpsichord and limited percussion. No train whistles, car horns etc.
The Power of this organ is the Sound of God.
Mention of the swell pedal reminds me of a hilarious incident which took place at my school during assembly. Normally the head of music would play the organ for the hymns. Sometimes the history teacher played, and he had a very precise, almost mathematical, style of playing. Occasionally they would let "Nelly" (his nickname) the biology teacher have a go. Nelly was a tall gangly man with arms and legs that seemed to be controlled by something other than his brain. When he was playing, his particular choice of rather weedy, dischordant stops and chords was instantly recognisable.
Every so often, the "Cheesy", the vicar of the local church, was invited to take the assembly service and to give a sermon. He was well known for getting rather carried away.
So Nelly played the hymn and then Cheesy stood up to give a real fire-and-brimstone sermon. In a sonorous and portentous voice he began, and soon was in full stride. "And the Lord was mighty displeased. And the Lord promised plagues of locusts and frogs, fire and brimstone. And the Lord said..." BANG!!!!!!!!!!!! A loud explosive sound rang out. Cheesy jumped about six feet in the air and collapsed onto his chair. The headmaster, who appeared to be very stern but actually had a really wicked sense of humour, tried hard to hide the fact that he was killing himself with laughter. All us boys were not so inhibited, and laughter and cheering rang out. "Oh God," someone muttered, "Someone's shot God."
It turned out that Nelly was closing the wooden slats that closed off the organ pipes from the chapel, so the noise of the blower was not audible except when the organ was being played. And it seems that his lack of physical coordination had caused his foot to slip off the pedal that closed these slats. Instead of them closing nice and slowly and inaudibly, they slammed shut, making a loud bang that reverberated through the building.
I've never forgotten that day!
I enjoyed this!
I had the honour of meeting Gabriel Dessauer in the summer of 1992, when I was asked to turn pages for him when he played an excellent recital on the organ of Chester Cathedral.
Wow that improvisation sounded so British (which I guess shouldn't be surprising). Just imagine an improvisation preceding a state funeral in St Paul's Cathedral while dignitaries are entering at the west end - this is just the music you would expect to hear. Solemn, melancholy and absolutely brilliant! I love it.
Samuel Whitehead Agreed, reminds me of St. Pauls as well in Melbourne! Love your content as well
Yes wonderful improvisation on a great sounding organ. I am not a musician but love pipe organ music. That was a treat to hear and so nicely played. Thank you.
Since you read these Fraser, I just want you to know that when I began playing the organ 6 months ago I started watching your video, and I’ve learned so much from you and you’ve helped me become quite well skilled at it since the country has been locked indoors for months with Covid, I sat down and played for up to 5 hours a day.
Blimey!
The engineering & craftsmanship behind that organ is just mind blowing, and I've been a development engineer for 37 years.
I've only ever experienced really serious acoustics when I visited Wells cathedral and felt the bass power through my body, an unforgettable moment.
Beautifully and sensitively played, fantastic.
Using wired headphones for maximum appreciation. With a touch of volume. That reverb... Stunning!
I was a pipe organist in my youth and hearing your explanation and demonstration of that beautiful organ gave me chills and brought tears to my eyes. Such beautiful sound from an absolutely magnificent instrument. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
This is an endearingly enthusiastic and jolly chap who plays a jolly big pipe organ at the end. And jolly well, I’d say! ♥️
I cannot express enough how much I appreciate the lesson... I had no idea how any of this worked!
Thank you with all my heart!!!!!
Just a note- at around 12:17 a reference is made to "sub-sonic" frequencies, but what you really mean is INFRAsonic frequencies. Sub-sonic means below a LEVEL that is audible, whereas INFRAsonic refers to being below a frequency (like, as you said, maybe 20 Hz) that can be discernible as a note (and so can only be FELT as a vibration). I used to make that same mistake. But this is consistent with other frequency-related perceptions: INFRA-red means BELOW frequency of the red spectrum of light.
My apologies for being critical on this point; this is a fascinating and wonderfully presented video!!
From All of us Subwoofers, THANK YOU!!!!
Church organs always intrigued me ever since I was a child and, even though have never been lucky enough to look at them so close up, now this lovely chap did enable me to peek into one. I am speechless and mesmerized by this grand masterpiece of musical instrument. Wonder what those robust speakers are made of?!
Thank you for the wonderful video.
I was blessed to have been regularly serenaded by the Ohio Theater's 'Mighty Morton' while performing service on the theater's many HVAC and filtration systems.
Absolutely loved it.
Nothing beats the sound of an organ
Always amazed to the talent that exists in this world.
What an excellent exhibition of a magnificent instrument! Maestro Gartshore, your style of presentation is exactly what I have been longing for in this genre of video for a long time. You blend perfectly a wealth of knowledge with your signature wit and humor to showcase a talent rivaled by none alongside some of the most exquisite organs. Thank you, Maestro, for continued dedication to your channel here and to the art of organ mastery!
The first chord played gave me goose bumps!!!! I LOVE grand pipe organs. The sound decay was WONDERFUL!!!
As an electronics engineer, I am always amazed how things were done mechanically. All those thin wooden link rods, levers and valves to control the pipes. Likewise the early Hammond organs with all those spinning "tone wheels" altering the flux linkage of electromagnets. Then we move to the "Mellotron" an analogue sampler using umpteen strips of magnetic tape, pulled backwards and forwards by a motor driving a shaft, pinch wheels and springs ! Incredible ! Electronic organs look boring in comparison. A few oscillators, dividers and filters.
The full organ sound gave me goosebumps. What a wonderful sound.
24:50 that was the most beautiful thing I have heard in a long time! fantastically beautiful!
Mechanical organs normally is build with the chamber and console all in one, this organs console is seperated from the chamber but seeing the layout of this genius work, wow the organ builder really did impressed me with this design
I love how he lets the acoustic blossom after each demo,
That's got to be the sweetest richest organ I've heard. Even the reeds & trumpets sound soft and full while being bright. And the reverb................. Plus I worked at a movie theater when Earthquake came out in 1974. Watching the movie sitting on the Sensurround 17-100Hz 120db speakers was incredible.
Yes I s aw earthquake at the dominan cinema in London . nothing I have heard since comes close to it even with all the Dolby systems now.love cathedral organs
making this kind of organs must be one of the most satisfying jobs on this planet.
The pipe organ is truly the king of musical instruments and a monument to man's genius.
"Gabriel, can I play here regularly?"
That line is one of the best ive heard XD
She's got a great set of lungs there! You took the top off beautifully in your improv.!
Had to replay the "waffling" at the end. Such good improv! I might even replay it yet again!
Very nicely done. At first I just wanted to hear the organ. Yet understanding the way this organ worked became way more important due to your wonderful explanation and exploration of the inner workings. Thank you very much for the video.
Thank you, Fraser, for introducing us to this great instrument. The interior case tour was very interesting.
A couple of requests:
1. Could you please show the *exterior and interior of the church* you're playing in, plus a *wide shot of the organ façade,* not just sections of it.
2. Could you spend a bit more time running through *ALL of the stops on all divisions* (flutes, mixtures, etc.). In lieu of this, provide a *stoplist* below the video à la British organist Jonathan Scott. You know how organists LOVE stoplists! 😊
Merci bien. 👍 💕
I was brought here by UA-cam's recommendation algorithm, I stayed till the very end and enjoyed both the talk and the music a lot. I've been playing synthesizers since my childhood, and the organ sounds have always fascinated me, both the electronic ones (Hammond or Farfisa) and the pipe organs as well. So far I had only a single opportunity to play a pipe organ, but among the songs I knew (mainly blues and rock stuff for the band I played with at the time, and some of Jean Michel Jarre's stuff), I found Oxygene part 13 the most suitable to play in a church. It quite an experience. I'd do it once more if I had the opportunity... (and maybe learn or come up with some stuff suitable for playing in a church)
Same here...brought here by UA-cam and stayed till the very end...enjoyed it all.
Oxygene 13 on an organ? Is there any recording of that?
@@georgH there is on youtube... my performance wasn't recorded, because back in 2007 I didn't have a phone capable of making a decent recording
Not only is the church organ the most unbelievable instrument I can imagine; but being able to play one is the most unbelievable (super)human skill I can imagine. Not only for the many hands and feet required to exist and be coordinated on the same person, but for the organist's ability to mentally override the time delay between pressing a key and hearing the result and at the same time survive the cacophony of all the reverberations stacked one upon the other ... Really fantastic, immensely impressive. I love it!
And all without a sustain pedal like piano’s have. Not something I can live without.
Behind every great organist there is a great wife willing to be his wingman. And doing it in heels no less. Kudos to the gal that did the great job recording this.
Reminds me of the old saying - "Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. Only backwards and in high heels". Kudos indeed.
Please Gabriel of St. Bonifatius - turn this into the world's first organ chamber AirBnB!
I would love to do that! But unfortunately i am not the owner of church and organ. :-(. Have you heard of "champing" (=church-camping)in the UK? This is similar and I would love to do that sometimes.
Good one!
The movie "Earthquake!" was from 1974, and the speakers were made by Cerwin-Vega. The process was called "Sensurround," and it was abandoned because the Cerwin-Vega subs had a bad habit of cracking the cinder-block walls of theaters.
What on earth did they do to a person's body or eardrums??
@@coeneschamaun1735 I never heard of them having any ill effects on anyone. And as far as one's eardrums, infrasonic sounds don't usually cause any sort of hearing damage because there is so little coupling from the outside air to the eardrum. This is why we have trouble hearing deep bass compared to how easily we can hear midrange and treble.
WOW.. I've heard a few pipe organs in the past.. but that reverb.. gave me goosebumps.
14:46 the best sound ... Like a dream... And the diferents 8,4 and 2 principal and diapason also 😄😄
Fraser, there are three things I particularly loved about this video: you showing us an inside peek into the “tracker-like” mechanism of the organ, the delightful ring-time of 8 seconds in the church, and the lovely Celeste stop on the Swell division!
By the way, the root spelling of my last name, is your FIRST name!
Advance to 24:50 for the start of the musical performance. Powerful and beautiful organ! Well done and thank you @Fraser Gartshore 😎👍
How nice of you, and your wife, to share your passion like this. Thank you!
I can't get enough of this reverberation... I'm just replaying that chord @ 0:30 like an obsessive. 😁
And thanks for lot of details and the beautiful music!
Mr Gartshore, that final improvisation was gorgeous!
Wow... the sound when you were playing the improvisation was stunning!
Both soft and loud this instrument sounds great. It made me smile a lot while listening. Thank you for playing this for us. :)
I come back to this Video every now and then just to hear this masterpiece at the end.. an absolute gem 💎
Me too. It's a neat piece to showcase the abilities of an organ....and that endless reverb that takes all night to decay.
Acoustically beautiful! Thanks for the tour. You could say that my love of the organ is in my blood. 13 years ago while rummaging through my father’s desk, I came upon a tuning fork. I tapped the fork on the desk, put it to my ear and said, “A 440.” My father couldn’t believe that I knew that. Turns out the fork was his father’s that he used for tuning pipe organs during the early 1900s. He tuned organs in the greater Detroit, Michigan area in the 1920s with that tuning fork. Needless to say, it is now my most prized possession. Thanks for keeping the art alive.
I'm not even sure what recording setup could properly capture the sound of this organ. A truly amazing instrument.
I'm pretty sure the guy from the church didn't just say "Have some fun, do what you want.", but rather "Have some fun, but whatever you do, don't break anything!" :)
Awesome! Thank you for this wonderful demonstration. I was a church organist 30+ years ago and only got to peek into the housing where the pipes were a few times. Ours had a couple 32 foot high pipes. I was so curious about how the organ got it’s powerful sounds. Literally learned to play overnight, but played piano since age 4. It was my calling to play the organ. I miss it so much. There’s nothing equal to the sounds and reverb a pipe organ can make. You see it, hear it AND feel it!!!
I just found this channel, and I love it. My grandfather was a professional organ builder in Germany and built many organs over his life time. I only got a to see one or two of his organs when I was younger, but it was fascinating to see what work he did when he built an organ. He built electro-pneumatic, and tracker organs and converted many others. My mother told me stories of accompanying her father and being the keyboardist for when he tuned organs. Again thank you for such a wonderful channel on pipe organs.
Very impressive. He must have had great skill and experience
I have no idea why UA-cam reccomended this channel, but i was blown away by the reverb of this church. A masterful blend of instrument and structure!
Was not expecting to sit through all of this, really cool.
This time I watched the half of the vid where you did your playing, the exploring of its features. Thanks for the experience. On this 27" screen, I was beside you on your right, almost as if I were there, with my good Bose sound system woofer faithfully delivering to me the grandeur and awe and reverence of past days of family and church in the 50s. Thanks again.
I am by no means a professional organist but I did study organ as a youth. When you play such a instrument, it’s the whole building you’re playing
Yes The Organ and the Church are as one ❤. Loved how long the reverb is sustained in that lovely church ⛪.
Thank you so much for this. As an organist, I find your spirit and enthusiasm for delightful. You remind me in a lot of ways of an Austrian organ builder whom I've been fortunate to know for over a decade.
And your improvisation for the close was magnificent. Moved me to tears. The organ is a thing of beauty, and you understand it deeply.
Thank you. Thank you.
OH.MY.HEAVENS! I could live on bread and that reverb alone! :O
OMG! What an amazing tour around an organ!! It´s been an incredible experience following you between the little details of this organ! Never seen so deep in an organ, thank you very much for showing us!! Amazing, thank you Mr. Gartshore!
My brother whom I pulled stops for at age of 12 graduated with Masters from the Peabody in Baltimore,I will never forget him playing at numerous churches in the Baltimore area. Saddly he passed in 1985 and I will never stop missing him. Lemuel M Hynson
Walter, do you have other relatives in Baltimore? I got chills when I saw your last name, that is my grandmothers maiden name. She married Peter Schmedes, he was born in 1878, Marie was born in 1898. I remember hearing my aunts talk about the Hynson family. Just curious.
What a wonderful sound ─ perfect voicing and absolutely impeccable tuning (not quite as common as one might expect - getting mixtures "just right" isn't easy)..From celestial strings (pun intended), firm foundation stops to rich reeds and the amazing acoustic of the church, this must be an absolute joy to play.
E flat Hype!!!, the best key to play in if you've got the choice. It just sounds so warm and happy.
Nooo you have to start in B-flat and then modulate with a climactic C major chord into F and repeat your theme at full strength before going back to B-flat
Thanx a lot for giving a chance to hear this beauty
I would be more than happy to listen to him talk for hours on end.
Impressive. I love these Church organs.....and their organists. Awesome composition played at the end. A real feast to the soul.
The wooden connections are known as tracker rods. I have worked on many pipe organs this past 45 years Every organ is different and they all have their own personality. The oldest organ I have worked on was saved from the hand of Cromwell He banned all music in Church`s The organ was stripped down into separate parts and hidden in peoples homes and then rebuilt after Cromwell ended his days. That happened to many Organs during his time
Vincent Neale: Wow, that's SO interesting! Thank God Crabby Cromwell was thwarted and that beautiful instrument was saved!
I belong to a very small church in the Bible Belt. What I would give to hear this beautiful instrument as part of our Sunday Mass!
OMG....A bed?? How cool is that?!! How I would love to sleep inside my instrument! 😊Fraser, I just love how you are so enamoured with the acoustics.... taking the time to listen to the reverb. Thank you for showing us the mechanics..... I could never quite understand how things are connected... it was so interesting to see underneath the floorboards. Please, let this be a feature for all the great organs you visit.... seeing the innards of these great instruments is fascinating. Love the new camera angles too, of you climbing ladders and such... what physical work!! Your videos are getting better and better.... thank you very much. Next time, can we see some interior shots of the church? Here’s to many more delightful & much-needed educational videos highlighting the greatest instrument on the planet!!😊💕🌺🎶
Since the building is acoustically part of the organ I suspect that a large part of the congregation sleeps in the organ every Sunday morning.
Saw the bed, thought, "Quasimodo"... he had to live somewhere while Notre Dame is rebuilt, or when on holiday.
This sounds amazing on my tiny lap top speakers. I can't imagine the sound in person!
This totally is my new dream bed!
Acoustics are amazing
Big structures and big sound. That's how they helped people feel the presence of "God". I loved the video btw and I'm now fascinated by this organ!!
In my home church we also have a fully mechanical organ - and it just gives you the feeling of not playing the organ, but BEING one with the organ, right?
What I love about this organ are the rich string sounds. In my opinion, most organs lack - if anything - a bit pipes on the stringy side.
And furthermore, what an amazing feeling it must be to have nearly the full organ, and THEN put the "chamade" pipes in there, which blast everything you heard before out of their way! And then having that maximally large amount of acoustic power at the tip of your fingers!
Amazing presentation of this organ!
The complex mechanical wooden linkage on this organ is amazing avoiding the delay inherent in pneumatic systems. Casavant Freres in St Hyacinth Quebec Canada Use a series of hard maple tracker bars to activate the pipes valves directly from the keyboards.
It would be wonderful if you added some shots of the outside of the church and more of the inside so we can better understand each location. Otherwise your videos are quite amazing as always.
Another fascinating tour and more beautiful playing. Thank you so much!
19:34
The organ at my church has a 32' Violone, it makes the chandeliers clatter! Last time I went in early to practice, I put on the three 16' stops and the 32' Violone and the music stand by the pulpit started rattling!
Superb video! I love how much he loves that reverberation - after every phrase he plays, he just sits and basks in the acoustics. At the end of the reverberation, you can hear the pitch rise upwards as the sound tails off. I've always thought that was an electronic effect but after seeing this, I guess that's a natural effect of reverberation.
Wonderful organ, acoustics, and very interesting view inside the organ. Mostly, Fraser, I loved your improvisation... perhaps you should consider committing it to sheet music... seriously... that good, and having it published !
I would buy a CD of his recordings if they were available! I like his chord progressions as they are not "classical".
I love the intersection of art and engineering that organs represent.
I remember a documentary I saw on PBS quite some years ago, the organ builders at some juncture figured out that when connecting the rods together via joints they had previously used circular joints. Someone figured out that if you used triangular joints, they made less clacking noise.
Thanks a lot Fraser for your complete présentation of the organ. Extraordinary reverb in this church ! And thank you also for your playing piece of
music on it. Great ! 🙂👍👏
Amazing that technology can let an 87 yr old man in Louisville. Colo. USA enjoy the sounds of a magnificent organ in Weisbaden Ger.
The person that normally plays this has a great pickup line; "come back to my bedroom and you can see my massive organ..." 😂😂😂
What could be better than a bed in a organ so cool....much like a bed in a yacht....wonderful
I do think the Acoustics are marvelous! And that you give it the time to reverb!! Brilliant!
When did "[a]coustics" become a brand, according to you?
Fascinating! And almost beyond belief with the mechanical complexity.
Absolutely! I couldnt imagine where to start building this!!
Wonderful complexity. Ingenious. Wonderful music.
I was in Virginia at the oldest church in the United States. I was listening to a non electric pipe Organ. I got a feeling in my soul that I was Okay. I have been chasing the feeling ever since
If I ever visit Germany, nr.1 priority is to attend a service in this church, just to hear this amazing organ.
Just an hour drive from my home (I'm from Marburg, central Hesse)! Yet I've never been to that particular church.
Quite a nice instrument that you've shown us today! I loved seeing the inner mechanisms, and that reverberation is fantastic.
I never thought UA-cam was on across the world..!!! Very cool that we see the same thing but I very different places.. but greetings from USA