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I thought the loudest instrument was the coughing between movements...
Coughing in piano and pianissimo parts is an art😇😲. That's why there are so many «artists» performing in so many recordings.😤🤬
I thought Donald Trump was the loudest tool 😂😂
@@nicodesmidt4034do you mean by Donald trumpet
@@A.a.s.t.o.r.the.radio.demon. yeah, sorry 😃👍
Yeah, that true, and since the typical classical audience is about 5000 years old, going to 6000 soon, it won't get quieter any time soon.
If you were an organ builder in Bach's day you didnt just build an organ in the room, you built a room around the organ
Bit of an overstatement, but it has some truth. I still think a lot of bickering went on between the organbuilder whose purpose was sound and the cathedral architect whose purpose was impressing the masses with imposing structures.
It’s still somewhat true today - renovating or replacing an organ is a serious architectural undertaking, and frequently it will only be done when the rest of the building is being renovated or rebuilt. And any building with a pipe organ generally has to be designed with the organ incorporated from the outset.
@@user-tn4nr5hm6u You and him are both kind of wrong. Because the organ isn´t just the pipes and keyboard. The whole building is the organ. The "room" it is in being it´s resonance body. Which is why organs in cathedrals have a sound to them that cannot be matched by organs situated in buildings not build for sound.
You mean Bach in the day?
@@user-tn4nr5hm6uThe other users are right man, while most churches didn't have an organ, the ones that did took that into the design very seriously, so much so that chambers where sound went had special features and resonance chambers. Look up Helmholtz Resonator they used ceramic pots placed in the roof and rooms where the sound bounced.
What I love about organs:
* You sit inside a building, and the building houses, and becomes the instrument.
* You are surrounded by, and shaken physically by, pipes several times taller than you are.
* You are listening to a space, filled with sound, not just sound.
I love all that, too, as an organist!
This is why my metal band uses 200 watt amps in a little tiny basement. It's not to flex, it's fun to make the building dance a little too!
Yes it feels amazing!
@@TheTurtleneck64 gotta love some tinnitus for flavor
@@TheTurtleneck64so you can become deaf by your 30s
With a pipe organ, the instrument IS the building.
That is such an outrageous idea, and I love it so much!!! 🥹
very well said ... i also like the fact that i happened to be the two hundred twenty second (222) person to like this comment! ^_^
Makes my thoughts wonder in really odd directions... Like having a JoJo stand, which is literally pipe organ and can manipulate the building it become part of, while stand user is playing the thing.
I like the fact that I happened to be the 400th person to like this comment! :D
@@dadautube 444th here 😉
If the piano is a typewriter for harmony, the organ is a conductor for an army of mischievous elves with whistles
My dad is an organist. At home he has a two manual reed organ. I'm not sure what kind of organ he plays at church now. But he's frequently played pipe organs and when I was a kid he had a pipe organ in pieces in our large garage. While true that pipe organs are integrated into the building, smaller pipe organs exist which are able to be taken apart and moved from one location to another, but not on a regular basis because they're still big and you wouldn't want to do it more than once.
I live in Christchurch, New Zealand, and of the 78 or so pipe organs in the greater Christchurch area, only something like 16 or 18 were playable, and only 4 were fully intact following the Feb 22 2011 earthquake. Many were destroyed. It was heartbreaking for organ lovers in the area.
Condoléances.
One of the best music channels for beginners is Music Matters. Gareth is an organist. The only harsh criticism is that they hardly ever have a view of his hands on the keyboard.
man that was a crazy mass shooting a few years back, huh?
@@shgdshectic
@@shgds This has absolutely nothing to do with organs.
@@gab_gallard a lot of organs were damaged there for sure
As a listener rather than a musician, the unique thing about pipe organs is that they are not just an instrument the size of a building. In a certain sense the building IS the instrument, and you are sitting inside the soundbox. No other instrument in the world can envelop you in it's sound quite like a pipe organ.
The thing where organists use special shoes with soft soles and special heels so that they can feel the pedals and play them alternating between heel and toe IS AMAZING. I'm always impressed by a great organist's ability to switch between all of the manuals, sometimes playing two at a time with ONE hand, and play chords on the pedals, and pull stops IN THE MIDDLE OF A SONG without stopping. Just amazing. A great organist is truly a musician's musician. One aspect of playing the organ to which Nahre barely alluded, is that depending on the stop and the types of pipes being played, the organist will change their playing style to better emulate the instrument being emulated by the pipes. For instance, playing the forward facing trumpet pipes like trumpets rather than strings.
Call me ayrton senna cos I’m rev matching the organ
More impressive is those who do it without shows at all.. Special shoes are not necessary and are really for show. Paul Fey plaz amazingly well with socks.
You may be interested in the videos LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER did, where he disassembled a pipe organ that was built into an organist's house, and rebuilt it and MIDI-fied it in his museum. You get to see all the details of the mechanism as he slowly gets it working again.
Really enjoyed that series
I thought of this too. And wondered does it still count as 'the same instrument' in a different environment? - you might have to relearn it even if it didn't have any new parts, but I guess that gets a bit hazy with acoustics and amplified music
I've played it 🙂 It's a bit ropey for actual human playing but the things he has done with midi and computer control are brilliant!
@@lilyl5492 Ship of Theseus question, but yes, interesting thought
"You cannot take that instrument and transfer it to a different place"
- Joan and Sam: Hold my bell diapaison
You can say that again, Nahre! - Greetings from a retired concert organist, but still active as a pipe organ technician in sunny Florida :) For anybody interested I recommend checking out Anna Lapwood and Thomas Mellan; both are contemporary organists who succeed attracting younger audiences to the King of Instruments.
Hey, thanks for your suggestion! Will check them out ❤
To be sure about Anna Lapwood, but Ben Maton (The Salisbury Organist) helped me understand--with the use of much smaller and older organs--the interplay between stops and multiple keyboards. It's all wonderful how Nahre is growing as a musician!
I think that Anna Lapwood in particular is someone you would get on well with.
What is Anna Lapwood up to these days? She hasnt posted in a couple of months. Anyone heard Cameron Carpenter? Check out his covers of Carmen Variations and Chopin op 10 no 12. He plays Chopin's arpeggios on the pedals! Its insane
@@shackamaxon512 She is more active on Instagram and Facebook; just on her first USA tour.- I didn't mention Cameron Carpenter because I am not sure if he is still active as concert organist... I haven't heard from him in quite a while.
Professional organist here - so glad for this video! That you for bringing this wonderful instrument to a new audience! So fun to get your fresh perspective on things too.
Please make a video talking about hearing damage among people playing the organ, a topic with not nearly enough attention...
pretty loud, but still quieter than a dad sneezing.
yeah, and still less melodic than gradma's fart
No microphone or speaker can reproduce the feeling of listening to an organ live. It is a unique experience.
Actually that's true for large, complex symphonic pieces as well, even WITH zero-"compressed" DSM audio on SACDs (Super Audio CDs) and on a super sound system (high-end tower speakers, matched center speaker, powered sub-woofers, all correctly keyed to the room). STILL never more than "somewhat close" to live.
I love that as good as she is, she still gets excited about learning new things.
The pipe organ is an amazing sound.
I've been an organist for nearly 50 years, and recently I have spent a lot of time learning difficult piano literature. This has improved my organ technique immensely, so apparently cross-training works both ways! I'm also a pipe organ builder, so I really appreciate this video!
Same kinda, i have played the piano for many years now and then i found an electric organ in my church, I’m not terrible at it either.
I may be both a metalhead and an electronic music fan, but the full pipe organ is my favorite instrument of all time. I'm not a spiritual or religious person but the sound of the pipe organ is so powerful that calling it the "voice of the divine" is honestly a very accurate statement. When played in a major key, no instrument is more triumphant. When played in a minor key, no instrument is more menacing.
Well put!
Organ: when the instrument is the room
It's like old-school computers
@foxjcket - Exactly (for better, or worse ...). I would much rather hear a modest organ in a good acoustic than an exceptional organ in a poor acoustic.
I love the way Nahre looked up as if she could see the waves of sound bouncing around the hall.
What i love about the organ is that every organ is a unique instrument. How its build, how it sounds, how it fits the room. No organ is the same. I've been an intern at Johannus Orgelbouw in the Netherlands and its amazing how (even though digital) those organs are build. They even have hybrid organs, digital and real pipe sounds.
Seated cross-legged on a bench in an airport many years ago, with the small 3-octave keyboard nestled in your lap and headphones on, you transported us to a realm of 'nie erhörte Klänge'-unheard-of sounds, as Schoenberg would say. It wasn't a traditional concert setting, but the intimacy and creativity of the moment made it all the more special. Your exploration of new perspectives in music, from the grand halls of the Hamburg Philharmonie to the more intimate setting of your own space, is truly inspiring.
The organ and the piano are completely different instruments that happen to have the same input method. From the point of view of a pianist, the organ is a striking change which lays bare your finger-legato and articulation without that sustain pedal. But the organ also sustains a simple SATB harmony better than a piano could, and has the ability to play a solo melody with a bugle or flute stop. Expression is different because you can’t make pinky-notes loud or thumb-notes soft, but you also have the ability to make the whole individual keyboard softer or louder. It’s a completely unique instrument that happens to use a keyboard.
Where have you seen a bugle stop??
@@organist1982 I just mean the trompette chamade. One of my teachers called it a bugle. Am I the only one that thinks of it as a bugle now?
@@JohnNathanShopper Hmm, ok! 😅
Only part of the finger motion is similar input. The stops and footwork along with HOW you play the keys are different. The organ and piano do NOT have the same input method.
@@paulmartin2348 This is true, but it’s something a pianist doesn’t instinctively realize, and it’s something Nahre doesn’t realize in this video. Pianists tend to see the organ as a broken piano. They need to realize how different it is going in. The organ is similar to the piano in the way that playing volleyball is similar to ping pong.
Pipe organs actually go down to 16hz (instruments with 32’ stops) but technically there are a handful of rare organs that even have 64’ pedal stops which go down to 8hz.
that's only a fundamental frequency and remember that when you combine higher harmonics you get effectively their fundamental (residual) frequency. When you combine 16' and 10 2/3' you get a resultant tone of acoustical length 32'. Known method of doing that in organbuilding.
There is also one organ with a 128' stop, just over 4hz
@@seth094978 There isn't. There are only two organs with true full-length 64ft pipes - Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall and Sydney Town Hall. Atlantic City does have a quint stop within the same rank of pipes that allows it to give a resultant 128ft, but I doubt if it is effective.
wait till the younger generations discover the pipe organ has the most powerful bass xD
@@seth094978yeah and it's called the dangerous organ 😅😅😅😅
Love that animation @ 9:22 to describe the difference of feeling with the sound emitting elsewhere. It would be like playing through a massive PA.
That is a very well-done and representative graphic. An organist must truly learn to play the room as well as the instrument
A very idiosyncratic PA whose acoustics you control through one or more pedals, yes. 😁
I think of it more like the player and audience are inside the speaker cabinet
@@stevecarter8810I imagined a big stack of speakers and subs behind the pipes
Often far enough for there to be a small time delay in the sound reaching the player.
“What do you play?”
“The building
“What?”
I play at 3 different churches with pipe organs, 2 of which are listed in the international guild of pipe organs in the Boston area. At one church, the only thing that will tame the reverb and “ Muddy “ sound,…. Is playing my right hand, an octave higher, and using a really high end Neumann microphone, to let my voice, and the words be heard. I love how you show that just because you are a pianist, you can’t just..” step in and improvise “ … and make magic on a pipe organ
Such a beautiful and thoughtful video…as always, Nahre
7:37 I hear Keith Emerson there! So good.
I had the same thought.
I immediately had to listen to Parallels…
Listen to Yuja Wang playing Kasputin
So Keith Emerson like !
Around 8 years ago I had the privilege of frequently playing a fantastic historical organ. Playing Interstellar was a true experience.
It also profoundely shifted how I approached the piano, just like Nahre described!
“The hydraulis was used at outdoor public entertainments; its sound was loud and penetrating. Its use declined in the West by the 5th century AD, although Arab writers of the 9th century refer to it. *Later medieval writers thought the hydraulis was a steam-whistle organ such as the calliope*.”
We seem to have bad memories eh? Musical instruments were peak tech back in the day ❤.
Instruments always push the limits of the technology of the day they’re invented :) keyed wind instruments reflect steam engine interlocks, brass valve instruments later steam valves, electric guitars using then-new solid state components and filters and amplifiers… and so on.
Pipe organs used wooden reed expertise, then moved to the expertise of whistle makers and so on; as well as integrating steam-powered air compressors, then diesel etc, before finally universally moving to electric motors… I love how musical instruments reflect the tech of their time.
The organ was designed to be the instrument to rule them all. Brass, strings, woodwinds, chorus, an ENTIRE ORCHESTRA all at the hands of one person. It’s truly a grand wonder of engineering, and I think it plays its role pretty damn well.
No. It was not conceived that way at all. It did devolve to that in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
You could install a practice room instrument at home - a quieter and smaller pipe organ will get you the overall technique. You can even get an electronic organ to practice on. Tracker action organs put you up against the pipes.
Pipe organs are really synthesizers. Not as much as the electrical part nor the option to choose among sets of pipes that sound different, but because you add stops for different overtones. That's literally additive synthesis.
As an organist...a huge THANK YOU for making this video on our instrument!
It’s a lot like additive synthesis, with all the different overtones getting added together.
Though what you described with the compressors is electromechanical, not electronic.
I’ve always found organs fascinating. Some early bass synthesisers had feet controls because of how synthesisers co-evolved with smaller electric (tonewheel), then electronic (divide-down) organs.
Adding reverb to my instruments changes how I play too, you integrate the space of the reverb into the playing more in a way you just don’t get when you hear a dry sound.
The organ is literally an acoustic synthesizer!
Organs have become more and more electronic over recent decades - the linkages from the keyboard to the pipes went from mechanical to electromechanical to electronic - and now entirely digital "pipe" organs are a thing, using sampling, physical modeling, and other techniques to emulate pipe organ sounds, while still enabling the free-flow combination of organ stops. Adoption of digital organs is a bitter subject of debate - I think places like the Elbphilharmonie would rightfully go nowhere near them - but the economics are hard to ignore in a lot of places.
Not like additive synthesis, but literal additive synthesis. If you add sine waves corresponding to pipe stops in a synth, you'll get an organ sound. A sharp attack will make it sound like an electric organ, but an attack slower than 0 milisec will make it sound like a pipe organ.
@@crisoliveira2644 That's one way to emulate a pipe organ, yes, but not the only way, and not an especially efficient way.
@@ods94065It can be if you use an additive synth
Thanks for doing the extra work to document your journey here. It’s really fascinating.
Wow. A beautiful journey inside a whole instrument.
Thanks Nahre
Wonderful... the only way I as a pianist can ever truly understand the mighty organ is to have a truly adept pianist explain it - and this you are doing so well. Thank you immensely! Oh, and by the way, kudos to you for your residency here - truly impressive! 👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you for the insight on pipe organ, Nahre. Also to all wonderful people featured in this video. Wish you all the best on your activities and residency in Elbphilharmonie.
I absolutely love it that you gave us the button and knot tips in the end
I am a simple church organist. I'm good, far from great. But... having said that, the organ has taught me to listen. I've been told may choral conductors began as organists because we need to hear everything. I think of the difference between playing organ vs piano as the organ is about fingers, whereas the piano is about the entire body. When I watch great organists the body is far more still than I see in pianists. Maybe that's just me. Enjoy your time on the organ!
One of the difficulties in playing the pedal board is that you need to twist the body without pushing off with your feet in order to play the extremes of the pedal board. This is also true of the pedal clavichord which is particularly sensitive to pressure on the feet. This means that you must be very aware of body mechanics at all times as it can affect the timing and even the sound in some instances. One organist of my acquaintance said that the best lesson he ever had was from a chiropractor who was watching his body mechanics and posture as he was playing.
David, you are hardly a simple church organist!
Love from San Diego, Geoff Graham
Amazing and very inspirational!
Thank you
Great tour of this instrument
Your channel fetches the deepest heartfelt comments apparently you have a profound affect on your audience. This channel is something very special 😢
Shower thought: An organ is a buildings organ. You cannot play it somewhere else. Just like your liver won't do its job if you put it on your desk.
Wow!. What a beautiful video. Thanks a LOT!!!
I listen to the pipe organ at the local church sometimes when they practice during the daytime, also not far from me is the church which houses the organ Handel composed the Chandos anthems on when he stayed at canons.
Wonderful video! I'm really happy that you are having these great experiences
Tremendous! Thx🎉
On the other side of the Pipe organ is the theatre organ, you can have everything a classical pipe organ has, plus all the orchestral stops etc too. Plus pianos, glockenspiel, drums, cymbals, bird whistles, car horns, sleigh bells, xylophones, marimba, celeste, vibraphone, chrysoglott, accordions, cello's etc. There are pretty much no limits.
The organ is the kind of instrument where, instead of you designing an organ for the room, you design the room FOR an organ. Probably the single most impressive musical instrument, nothing really has a chance of even coming close.
Very interesting. I enjoyed the pianist playing an organ for the first time experiences and takeaways. And OMG, what an organ to play as a first instrument! And yes, I think it translated back to your piano work well. Those pieces you were playing of yours were superb. Maybe you should consider making a concert video of some of your favorite self composed works. I would listen. You could talk about what you were thinking, as well, your normal mode, but just the music after that 'what it is' in full length would be wonderful.
Thoroughly recommend anyone in a country with pipe organs in churches to contact your local one and ask to play. Most (especially in the UK) are only too happy to show you around as they often sit unused for months otherwise. Ironically for such a large and complex instrument, you might well be able to play several different ones entirely for free! Once you try you'll be hooked.
thanks for a very thoughtful and insightful presentation. Lots of considerations I'd never thought of, comparing organs and pianos as sound sources.
I enjoy playing the pipe organ so much! 😌
Phenomenal video, so interesting. I’m a hobby pianist and can’t even imagine how a person can master that
Hello medcrisis :)
Nahre, your discoveries here exactly match my experience as I transitioned from piano to organ, and covers exactly what I love about the instrument. Nice stuff!
My organ teacher used to complain that becoming an organist destroyed his feel for, and touch on, the piano. I don't know if that's a thing - I haven't felt that way in my own musical journey, though I am just a journeyman on both - but given the change in your playing at the end, if you keep going down this path, I wonder what your experience will be like reconciling the two very different instruments.
Great video! In just two hours at the organ you managed to describe the last three years of me as a pianist learning the organ. And everything you said was also true for me! Learning the organ has made me a much better musician in every way (much less reliant on muscle memory, playing more consequently and consciously, playing into the space, listening to the sound I’m making, much more conscious of dynamics, less reliant on the sustain pedal, better sight reader, better at improvising, better at reharmonizing, better at playing by ear. It has been a wonderful experience and I would recommend it to everyone!
Fascinating, Nahre, that sums up many things I always wanted to understand about this magnificent creature-like instrument, thanks so deeply for doing this! ❤😊🙏
Very cool video. Thanks!
Great video Nahre on the pipe organ.
This is neat! The thing you mention about making the most progress away from your main instrument is, oddly, something I've noticed myself as a visual artist as well. I'm back in school at the moment and I took a sculpture class and some printmaking classes - and my drawing actually seems to have improved?
I can only imagine it's similar to how you have to shift how you think about things when you work with the organ instead of the piano. Your brain is gaining some extra reps in related but perhaps slightly tangential skills to your main thing, and when you go back to the main thing you can carry that with you.
I dunno I just thought that was a fun parallel!
Thanks for your perspective as a composer. I love organs and also piano, so hearing about how they can teach each other lessons is very gratifying.
Thanks for sharing your experience and insights on playing a pipe organ vis-a-vis a piano 👍🏻
I've been playing the piano for around 7 years and started playing the cello about three years ago.
For me playing the cello has changed my piano playing not just because I sometimes immitate a cello vibrato on a piano key (obviously doesn't work) but because I play differently now, I feel the music more. I am also constantly reminded of the limits of instruments. Playing on the accordion has changed my habits less, but it taught me not to constantly look at the keys when playing off a sheet of music, definitely eases playing. A fascinating thing about the accordion basses is how much work your left hand has all of a sudden, the different location of the chords and buttons and how you must get creative using the terz buttons in the top row with an accordion as small as mine.
I think every musician should at least play a different instrument than their main one at least once in a while simply because it helps understand music much better. Also had that with the harmonica, suddenly I have to use my tongue and lips to play chromatic notes while on the piano I have the keys and on the cello I can technically play any note in existence that is above my lowest string.
I enjoyed hearing that the organ made you experience your own music differently.
I was privileged to have the opportunity to play the organ in King's College Chapel in Cambridge. The lowest note made the building shake! The pipe runs horizontally across the wooden screen around the organ loft rather than the usual vertical pipes
This is great, thanks! maybe next a video about the harmonium or pump organ would also be very cool!
Organist here: The acoustics section is so important. The other part of the instrument is the acoustical space you are in, and you have to take that into consideration for your repertoire. Besides choosing appropriate stop combinations, the entire playing style of your piece might change if it's a drier acoustic and you have to create that "space", or if it's a more live space and you have to be aware not to make everything muddy. Lengthening chords in a drier acoustic, vs playing a chord, waiting for the chord to finish sounding in the physical space you are in before moving on with your piece. It's quite the task, but so rewarding as it really does require you to be constantly listening to your playing and the space you are in.
Merci, Nahre. My secret most favoritest instrument.
Fabulous dive into the organ journey.
I subbed on the organ at my local church as a teen/young adult a couple times. Had years on the piano, Rhodes, many synthesizers and electric organs.
Totally a novice when put in front of the small pipe organ. Humbled, would be an understatement!
Always love your playing!
Can’t wait to see you at Fresno state tomorrow!
I found this very interesting. As a singer I change the tempo in different rooms, slowing down in reverbersnt spaces.
For me, it's slowing down and also leaving bigger pauses between phrases/sections.
Of course you release this as I’m writing an organ passacaglia for my end of year juries! Unfortunately our school organ isn’t THIS cool, but it’s got pretty much all the bells and whistles.
What a wonderful video! I never knew just how incredible the organ was!
what fun! great stuff - thanks :)
I just did some repair work at a church, and got to check out the works of their pipe organ. It's certainly a special instrument.
Very cool video, thank you! Especially on the difference between playing a physical piano and a keyboard that's far from a giant sound engine that fills the room from the edges.
This is a really cool video! I thought it was especially neat that your organ playing affected how you played your home instrument :~)
As a longtime vocalist (choir), being that separated from the source of the music sounds crazy, but also interesting.
I’m glad you did video on my instrument! This is wonderful
Fantastic!
Just saw Anna Lapwood at the Boardwalk Hall organ in Atlantic City, what an experience man...
Good info Nahre cool instrument
"There is nothing to it. You simply strike the right notes at the right time, and the instrument plays itself." -- Johann Sebastian Bach, in response to being praised for his masterful organ playing.
Wow! I entered a whole new world. Now I want to listen to great pipe organ music🙏
Search for Anna Lapwood, but there are many other fantastic organists out there.
Thank you! This helped me to clarify a discussion with friends about differences and similarities between organ and piano. A very interesting video (even though I there are still only 2 and a half composers whose organ music I like).
Would be incredible to play. Great video!
thank you for spreading the beauty of this instrument
i loved every moment of this and greatly appreciate this perspective. this is the type of insight I could have dreamed for as a child. real application. real experience shared . real feedback and open transparent honesty. reflection has helped me grow personally. i feel everyday is another day growing with music. thank you so much ! this is great!
You are correct, Nahre, it is *not* a keyboard instrument (7:02). It is a wind instrument that happens to be controlled by a keyboard. Having to think about the length of each note is one of the things that takes me the most time when I switch from piano to organ. And the piano is a percussion instrument that happens to be controlled by a keyboard.
The most humbling experience I had as a pianist was being forced to play organ at my local church (the actual organist who played there before passed away) and at first it was terrible. There was approximately a half a second delay between any tone I played and hearing the tone back. It forced me to think differently about the music. But it became even more complicated with playing alongside other instruments. The acoustics just work differently for each one of them and the organ threatens to overrule them all if not used carefully. Thankfully my brother took up organ at school and was able to take over my job, but still... to most people organ and piano seem similar, but they are so much different. Here's to all the organists, keep up the good work.
Happy to learn you're in Hamburg! Welcome to Germany 🌺
Hi! Just a shot in the dark: but could explain what you're doing musically from 6:28-6:55? It's so lovely.
One of the really interesting accompanying anecdotes I remember hearing was how not only was the organ part of the room as it was built into the building, but that often the building and the room were built as part of the organ, meaning the reverberation and shape of the room was to compliment and push the sound around to make the best experience for the audience.
I really appreciate the mind shift to thinking about the whole space as effectively part of your instrument applied to piano or other instruments. It reminds me of some of the adjustments I learned to make when playing upright bass on a typical amplified club or festival stage to always ask if they could cut the low frequencies from the stage monitors. If i didn't get that, the low end of the bass would be too much for my bandmates, they would ask for less bass in the monitors, would really only hear the reflection of the bass off the back wall, and we would drag. Thinking not only a out my own instrument, but my instrument in ensemble, and then my instrument in a space really does change how and even what i play. It's really cool to learn how the pipe organ forces that lesson.
Excellent presentation and informative 🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏😎✨
That was a brilliant perspective of a pianist starting on the organ! I realised the same change in listening further than my instrument, when I started playing organ after years of piano. I forget who, but someone said something like, "the most important stop on the organ is the building", and I think this is true for all instruments.
From Fraser Gartshore's RUclips channel I gather that it isn't quite true anymore that you need to go to the real organ to practice: there is a "virtual organ" software, Hauptwerk, with sample sets from many real organs (often even with samples recorded from different locations in the church). People do end up with complete (Midi) organ consoles at home though...
@jhbnijhof You are correct -- virtual organ software provides excellent access to hundreds of world-class instruments and their acoustics right in your living room (den, etc. . . . )
Yes, it's the King. You should try playing Bach it in a church, that's real power. I still remember attending one of Bach's passions in a big church. The low tones were so powerful that the benches vibrated!
Wonderfully enlightening and inspiring, just like Nahre.
Organ fews so vivid, each key press is breathtaking.