It looks rather complicated. You could seemingly go year and years without using some of those stops. I think it would be cool to see some of the internal mechanisms. Thanks for this tour, Matt!
I’m a music lover but wasn’t familiar with the organ until you started posting shorts during the pandemic! This video helped me understand why there’s such a difference between you and someone else playing the same hymn You always add such clarity and devotion to it that I become moved ❤
My church has a high school choir director who knows piano very well and is learning our organ what seems to always use the same stops. We have a group of baroque pipes that I wish he would try. Thanks for the lesson
Thank you, Matt. This is a beautiful organ and thanks for the tutorial. I enjoyed it and all the close-up videos of the things you were explaining. Keep making beautiful music. ❤️
I'm a patron of Cole Lam, and I have been encouraging him to perform with an accomplished organist for that great combination of artists. I will send this to him and see if he can initiate something with you, if you all consider it appropriate.
Thx for the tour, I was most interested in the stops. Would love to hear that 32' sometime! I was listening to the Ripon Cathedral Advent service and was blown away by something the organist did. Playing full organ, he separated the melody out I think on the pedal with a trumpet /reed stop to end all reed stops! Would this organ have a stop like that? Is that where the Bombarde manual comes into play?
It makes a lot of sense in terms of acoustics. An open fronted case there, with pipes on display would only project the sound forwards and across the basilica and there would be sound 'voids' in the areas of the High Altar and the west end of the nave. I don't know who the consultant was who worked with John Compton in designing the organ but together they have produced an organ which matches the performance of another grand organ of the period, Westminster Cathedral's Willis III instrument, which is designed on the same principle: the sound mainly emanates from the top of the enclosure and Willis's instrument even has shutters on the top of the swell boxes. Sir Richard Runcimsn Terry was director of Music at Downside before he became Westminster Cathedral's first Director of Music and I wonder if that has any connection between the placing and design of the casework of Downside and Westminster organs. Having spent many hours in Downside Abbey Church, for services and organ recitals and usually seated near the west end of the nave, the careful design means the sound does not come from any particular direction: the sound is completely enveloping and in the hands of a master like Matt Walters we are elevated to a higher plane, as though we've gone to Heaven!
@@richardpacker4630Dom Gregory Murray was the Abbey organist at the time. Comparisons with concealed Willis III organs like Westminster or Sheffield City Hall are somewhat irrelevant - those are still highly conventional 'straight' organs with unenclosed divisions behind the grille and three wooden Swell boxes. Ditto the contemporary HN&B at Holbrook. Whereas this is an extension organ built entirely in three concrete chambers with Swell shutters, of which the Tuba one fires forward and the other two up into the vault.
It looks rather complicated. You could seemingly go year and years without using some of those stops. I think it would be cool to see some of the internal mechanisms. Thanks for this tour, Matt!
It’s amazing how you remember it all ! Love it !
I’m a music lover but wasn’t familiar with the organ until you started posting shorts during the pandemic! This video helped me understand why there’s such a difference between you and someone else playing the same hymn You always add such clarity and devotion to it that I become moved ❤
Thank you Michael, great to hear that!
My church has a high school choir director who knows piano very well and is learning our organ what seems to always use the same stops. We have a group of baroque pipes that I wish he would try. Thanks for the lesson
Thank you! your tour is very interesting.
Great tour TY----¡
Dr who theme would be amazing on the organ PLEASE
Thank you for tour and demonstration!🤗👍👍👍
Thank you, Matt. This is a beautiful organ and thanks for the tutorial. I enjoyed it and all the close-up videos of the things you were explaining. Keep making beautiful music. ❤️
Thank you Elizabeth
Thanks Matt. What is the biggest Pipe? James.
Great mini video Matt happy 2024 we met at Wells Cathedral event x
Yes was great to meet you there, glad you enjoyed the video
I'm a patron of Cole Lam, and I have been encouraging him to perform with an accomplished organist for that great combination of artists. I will send this to him and see if he can initiate something with you, if you all consider it appropriate.
Wow
That should answer questions. Who is the builder? It is good to see it is maintained.
The builder is John Compton.
@@ds1868 Thanks.
Thx for the tour, I was most interested in the stops. Would love to hear that 32' sometime!
I was listening to the Ripon Cathedral Advent service and was blown away by something the organist did. Playing full organ, he separated the melody out I think on the pedal with a trumpet /reed stop to end all reed stops! Would this organ have a stop like that? Is that where the Bombarde manual comes into play?
What is the name of the 16 and 32 foot reed? Something phone lol I can’t tell or think of any other pedal reed with that name I’ve heard before.
@@kodygoad9711baryphone, seems to be a reed upon looking up as expected
@@yeety1208 there is no 32ft reed on this organ. There is a Diaphone, and the Baryphone plays harmonics on the Diaphone rank.
@@kodygoad9711 it's actually an Aliquot mixture derived from the Diaphone rank.
@@richardharrold9736so it uses harmonics to make a resultant?
How many pipes? I studied organ in college. It was a 19th century tracker organ. ♥️🎹
It's about 38 highly extended and unified ranks, like a large theatre organ.
Are the stops indicated on the sheet music or up to the organist to interpret? Thanks.
Some stops are occasionally indicated but it is usually up to the organist to interpret
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Your cute
I’ve never seen a cathedral hide its pipes like this. Do you know why, Matt? Makes no sense.
It makes a lot of sense in terms of acoustics. An open fronted case there, with pipes on display would only project the sound forwards and across the basilica and there would be sound 'voids' in the areas of the High Altar and the west end of the nave.
I don't know who the consultant was who worked with John Compton in designing the organ but together they have produced an organ which matches the performance of another grand organ of the period, Westminster Cathedral's Willis III instrument, which is designed on the same principle: the sound mainly emanates from the top of the enclosure and Willis's instrument even has shutters on the top of the swell boxes. Sir Richard Runcimsn Terry was director of Music at Downside before he became Westminster Cathedral's first Director of Music and I wonder if that has any connection between the placing and design of the casework of Downside and Westminster organs.
Having spent many hours in Downside Abbey Church, for services and organ recitals and usually seated near the west end of the nave, the careful design means the sound does not come from any particular direction: the sound is completely enveloping and in the hands of a master like Matt Walters we are elevated to a higher plane, as though we've gone to Heaven!
@@richardpacker4630Dom Gregory Murray was the Abbey organist at the time. Comparisons with concealed Willis III organs like Westminster or Sheffield City Hall are somewhat irrelevant - those are still highly conventional 'straight' organs with unenclosed divisions behind the grille and three wooden Swell boxes. Ditto the contemporary HN&B at Holbrook. Whereas this is an extension organ built entirely in three concrete chambers with Swell shutters, of which the Tuba one fires forward and the other two up into the vault.
So sorry the monks have gone
Nobody else is. Good riddance to bad rubbish. The community should have been closed down decades ago.