You are a genius in producing a short but perfectly formed video and the playing at the end was sublime. The BBC couldn’t have produced it any better, but they would have spent 30k in the attempt.
I have only recently discovered the wonderful world of Ben's interpretations of old country organs. What a blessing to know he started his journey this way and to share his knowledge and talent with the world.
I love what you are doing in this video series. Honouring a great tradition of faith, music and culture. Great to hear the Gregorian chant in that Norman church.
This video enchanted my 8-yo boy and me this evening. We loved the architecture, stained glass, English countryside, and music. Afterwards, I told Joel it was time for bed. He then declared, after having contentedly watched for 12 minutes, that he doesn't really like this kind of video! I laughed and reminded him that he'd just enjoyed it thoroughly. He thought for a moment, and declared that he likes funny videos better. Fair enough...we watched a funny video too. Thank you for helping me to civilize the little rascal.
Oh, I wish I could visit England one day. I love the British culture, especially the English, Welsh and Scottish people. You are blessed with beautiful landscapes, a history going back thousands of years and many great churches with wonderful organs. Next year I'm planning a tour of the UK. Many kind regards from Deutschland and thanks for the upload of your video!
I hope that you enjoy your trip to the UK. Don't get too bogged down in London, it's huge, smaller cities have much more to offer and if the weather is kind, visit Edinburgh. Take care!
Despite numerous objections, our priest stood by as our 100+ year old organ was replaced with a US $40,000 electric replacement that was then piped through a pair of dance hall speakers. Thanks for showcasing the amazing versatility of these historic instruments!
Ben, you are Brilliant. Thanks for this great video and all the time, work and care that you put into it. I enjoyed your shortened rendition of Bach's Toccata and Fugue. I can learn that! We have to get you to the 1,000 RUclips subscriber mark. I'll work on that.
With sheep grazing next door, you should have played "Sheep May Safely Graze!" What a treasury the old pipe organs are! They have seen so many generations of worshipers come and go and have contributed to the milestones of people's lives - christenings, weddings, funerals, all the Holy Days of the church calendar.......
Thank you Ben for sharing in your quiet intimate way the lovely soul of rural England. The grey skies, rain, and pastoral beauty together with the ancient stone of those lovely churches and their organ music brings back priceless memories of my time in England, from my twenties until retirement back to my native Australia. Back here in Oz I feel blessed to have experienced both worlds.
Greetings from Toronto, Canada - Ben! Our 115 year old inner-city church has a two manual pipe organ sorely in need of a LOT of work. However, I play it on occasion - usually for a 'first hymn' to accompany the congregation. This is a 1923 Franklin-Legge two manual, full pedal-board organ - built by a company that was based in Toronto. I was unfortunately left for dead in the early 60's after some vandalism, but was rebuilt (to a basic functional degree only) in the 70's. I am hoping that at some point we'll be able to give it a little 'love' and get the broken contacts and couplers repaired. The organ has a British-built rotary 220 volt blower - that is also 100 years old and at least THAT works flawlessly! The 12 volts for the key-switches is supplied by a vintage hand-wired bridge rectifier in a housing beside the blower. This is a link to what it sounded like in 2018 as I played the chorus 'Your Strength is Perfect' carefully adding some couplers to mask the 'missing notes' on some of the stops and broken wire contacts beneath the keys!. ruclips.net/video/tJiSfAn1tXQ/видео.html I do very much enjoy your organ videos! Cheers James
I am working my way through the videos I haven’t seen and enjoying the earlier episodes. Lovely encounter with the little owl! Interesting watching these episodes now, during the height of the British Summer, as the films are filled with the atmosphere & beauty of the Autumn/ Winter season. I do so enjoy the peace & remoteness of the rural landscape and churches during this time.
Wonderful video again. You seem to be quite talented organist. 👏And the way you do these videos is so genuine and honest, I can imagine to be there walking along and sitting in the church. So welcoming feeling too. It's also heartwarming to see someone else beeing interested in these old pipeorgans and old churches too. When I was younger, I thought I was different because of these topics. Good to see younger people finding these things too. By the way we had in the past before 1960's normally in every school classroom a reedorgan here in Finland, but later pianos replaced them and nowadays you hardly find anymore those instruments. I own two and those are in good shape. That culture/music style is almost dieing out, only folkmusic people and some faithful christians appreciate that instrument and old church music. Anyway pipeorgans are much greater and I wish I would own a small one some day. 😊
I think small country side church organs are neglected world-wide, but there are so many nice instruments! You don't always need a huge instrument to make music, on contrary it's a nice challenge to make the most out of a small one! I'd love to hear more of smaller English church organs.
Excellent stuff Ben. It's interesting to see and hear all these lovely little organs tucked away around the world. I'm definitely keen to see more of this series. In Australia, James Flores is doing a similar exploration and uncovering many hidden gems. I bet England has a hundredfold more in your historic towns and villages. I hope you can tour many of them on our behalf.
I'm not even kidding when I say this is my favorite rendition of Toccata and Fugue I've heard. You love the simplicity of it so much it's just heavenly... God Bless ya, man
Forgive me but this little video has captured my imagination. There's so much in the UK i haven't begun to explore. And this little organ is actually rather beautiful, as demonstrated by this fella, Ben Maton. It has me wishing this church well, and to be filled again in future days, if not for worship then for a concert series (but personally i'd love to see a hearty mass said in this place, or a hymn-sing, full of the faithful, with the incense and hymns and music and singing and chant). Indeed, it is awesome to imagine the thousands of people who've worshipped in this little space over the centuries. (The "Communion of Saints" -- All-the-Saints --is a basic part of our Christian faith that inspires and encourages me lots, as does this open church that's maintained today by the faithful.)
Way to go, Ben! Preservationist, true, but also these instruments (here in the US as well) are the ONLY pipe organs that people living in these lovely places get to hear, and SING with. The connections you also make with contemporaneous events and people makes it all the richer.
I keep complimenting you but you produce such informative videos and your playing is awesome. I am a huge fan. I am an organist myself based in Hull, Yorkshire. I would love to hear you play a full recital.
I am very much enjoying joining with you visiting lovely old churches. My reminiscences take me back to the 1950/60's and being a chorister in what was our village church, St Leonards in Bursledon Hants and on rare occasions hand pumping the organ due to power failure. Still sing today in a Metropolitan Male Voice Choir but a long way from St Leonards in Burseldon, Adelaide South Australia.
😊❤ Amazing. And so emotional to see how you resurrected modest organ and the proud of people of each small church...❤ this is the way to invite us there back.😊
Subscribed. Looking forward to more love given to these smaller organs that really need it. When I visited the UK last May I was able to admire the instrument that was rescued and now sits for all to admire and experience in London Bridge station; now I get to enjoy your sampling many instruments like it in their native settings. I really like you keeping the focus on hymns and if you do more Bach (which I hope you do), the real beauty of his meditative and emotional chorale preludes seems to emerge from these understated, humble, and too often passed over and forgotten instruments, much like what your most recent posting accomplished. Keep shining the light in these remote corners, sir.
Love Ben's practical approach to the Church Organ. Indeed you cannot compare a rural church with its small electronic to the wonderful churches with endess money to spend on the fabulous instruments. Great player is Ben........
Dear Ben Thank you so much for a wonderful collection of videos whch contain two subjects I love one music the other architecture. You have foubd the write combination to keep me glued. In some ways you remind me of Sir John Betjemen, he did a series on churches - ther is something very special about country village churches. I am a Sussex man and there are many churches here I can recomend to you , Sompting a saxon church, and church in Sullington. I am always recommending your tubes to friends . Any way Happy New Year I hope you have the time energy and inclination to continue your tubes. I wish you all the best David stokes X
These videos are vastly better in terms of documenting England's history than anything on TV, with fabulous organs and music and Ben's quiet but insistent narrative thrown in!!! But, Ben, you need a cameraman so you can wave your arms around instead of holding the camera!!
These small organs are ideal for a small village church; so much better than an electronic, and there's no shortage of music which can be played on a single manual. It sounds quite beefy when you add the Bourdon. What a pity someone saw fit to screw plastic switches onto it!
One of my favourites was always a tiny manual pump organ in a tiny village church in Norfolk I've forgotten the name. I went there for a wedding in 1970.
Lovely demonstration on a small and beautiful Organ! It was really cool seeing those little tips to increase the flexibility of an instrument like that!
A wonderful and interesting explanation of this organ. It’s amazing how you produced such a great sound from one keyboard and a small pedalboard. How fantastic that you are so passionate about preserving these pipe organs, as I think many of us are too. Your passion for and love of these wonderful organs shines through. Thank you for that Ben.
Your videos are great! I enjoy the balance of narration, music, and ambiance, topped by superb editing. I feel like I’m there in the church. Well done!
Thank you Ben. A wonderful and excellent explanation and 'concert'. Reminds me of my youth, when one of my best friends and I would go to the choir loft, at our Catholic Church, St. Joseph's, Somerset County, N. J. Michael would play exactly the piece you played. I would turn the pages and change the stops. On the 2 Manuel pipe organ, with a coupler. It was sold when the new church was built. Now there's an electronic organ. Rodgers or Allen. Not sure....but so good to hear the real thing. And remembering days past. Thank you again. Just found this on RUclips.
I am so enjoying your channel. I am curious as to how long it took you to become so accomplished. I wish you would share some of your journey and inspiration to becoming such a world class performer. Were you a child prodigy with loads of natural talent or were you inspired to study for many years or perhaps some of both? I am so delighted that you are sharing the churches and the music! I am just amazed at the sound that you get out of those old organs. Truly magnificent.
Impressive, watching your videos is informative as well as entertaining. Pipe organs have always been something of a mystery, especially since most church organs in the U.S. are much newer and filled with all sorts of electronics; some of which are massively impressive, but still lacking some of the charm and... character of those you have played. First time I heard a smaller, village parish was in Grasmere, up in Cumbria. (By the way, your CD arrived last week, in one piece and sounding great.)
That organ is a little gem. A bit woofy but your judicious use of stops and tempo made it sound much more than it is. At first when you were demonstrating the individual stops it sounded almost reed-like. But with the full chorus it came into its own. Well done!
Thank you for making these videos talking about the history of the parish and about the organs. It's a great joy. By the way, what is the name of the sanctus? I shivered when I heard this song at the entrance of the church.
What a great video. It's tempting to go into a church and assume nothing has been touched for ages, but where I live in Kent, most of the local organs get at least some kind of yearly maintenance, and at least two are fundraising for major repairs or have started the project, so it's not all doom and gloom. We have quite a variety, from small one manuals, a Hill and Sons, a nice but very temperamental neo-baroque by a local builder (Renshawe, who was on Songs of Praise recently) and a three manual Dalladay.
Great presentation Ben! I prefer to practice on smaller organs. I find this particularily important when learning new organ pieces. I'm from Western Canada and we have quite a few older romantic tracker organs. Many of them were relocated in the 50's and 60's through the organ clearing house. They are mostly American builders such as Odell, Farrod and Votey, etc. The oldest functioning church organ in Alberta is an 1870 Odell at Highwood Lutheran Church in Calgary, AB. I was organist at this church for almost two years in the late 90's That instrument really taught me a lot. Look forward to hearing more about these smaller instruments. Thank you!
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Thank you Ben for such a beautiful video.
Thank you so much for coming to our church, Ben, and for explaining and playing our organ so beautifully.
He is so interesting in explaining organs. Thank you Ben
You are a genius in producing a short but perfectly formed video and the playing at the end was sublime. The BBC couldn’t have produced it any better, but they would have spent 30k in the attempt.
Here I am on the train from Melbourne to Sunbury and listening to and watching a fine young man playing Bach in an English country church. He blessed!
Glad to see talented younger organists filling the ranks! There is reason for hope…
Thank you. My maternal great-grandparents are buried in the Churchyard of All Saints, Martin.
I’ll likely never get to England before I die but I can see and hear it this way. Thank you, sir! 🎶🎶🎶🎶
I have only recently discovered the wonderful world of Ben's interpretations of old country organs. What a blessing to know he started his journey this way and to share his knowledge and talent with the world.
I love what you are doing in this video series. Honouring a great tradition of faith, music and culture. Great to hear the Gregorian chant in that Norman church.
This video enchanted my 8-yo boy and me this evening. We loved the architecture, stained glass, English countryside, and music. Afterwards, I told Joel it was time for bed. He then declared, after having contentedly watched for 12 minutes, that he doesn't really like this kind of video!
I laughed and reminded him that he'd just enjoyed it thoroughly. He thought for a moment, and declared that he likes funny videos better.
Fair enough...we watched a funny video too.
Thank you for helping me to civilize the little rascal.
I’m so happy I stumbled across this channel. I’m thoroughly enjoying this series. Thank you!
Oh, I wish I could visit England one day.
I love the British culture, especially the English, Welsh and Scottish people.
You are blessed with beautiful landscapes, a history going back thousands of years and many great churches with wonderful organs.
Next year I'm planning a tour of the UK.
Many kind regards from Deutschland and thanks for the upload of your video!
I hope that you enjoy your trip to the UK. Don't get too bogged down in London, it's huge, smaller cities have much more to offer and if the weather is kind, visit Edinburgh.
Take care!
Despite numerous objections, our priest stood by as our 100+ year old organ was replaced with a US $40,000 electric replacement that was then piped through a pair of dance hall speakers. Thanks for showcasing the amazing versatility of these historic instruments!
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Ben, you are Brilliant. Thanks for this great video and all the time, work and care that you put into it. I enjoyed your shortened rendition of Bach's Toccata and Fugue. I can learn that! We have to get you to the 1,000 RUclips subscriber mark. I'll work on that.
The Toccata and Fugue was shortened by omitting the Fugue 😉
With sheep grazing next door, you should have played "Sheep May Safely Graze!" What a treasury the old pipe organs are! They have seen so many generations of worshipers come and go and have contributed to the milestones of people's lives - christenings, weddings, funerals, all the Holy Days of the church calendar.......
Thank you Ben for sharing in your quiet intimate way the lovely soul of rural England. The grey skies, rain, and pastoral beauty together with the ancient stone of those lovely churches and their organ music brings back priceless memories of my time in England, from my twenties until retirement back to my native Australia. Back here in Oz I feel blessed to have experienced both worlds.
Ich gratuliere Ihnen, Herr Kantor Maton, für die echten Töne die Sie aus dieser kleinen Orgel herausholen um Bach zum würdigen!
Amazing talent you have Ben. I love church organ music. You will do well. Nice too see young organists around now. ❤
Finally, a handsome organist to follow. I love the reverb. You made this actually sound like it's coming from a cathedral.
Greetings from Toronto, Canada - Ben!
Our 115 year old inner-city church has a two manual pipe organ sorely in need of a LOT of work. However, I play it on occasion - usually for a 'first hymn' to accompany the congregation. This is a 1923 Franklin-Legge two manual, full pedal-board organ - built by a company that was based in Toronto. I was unfortunately left for dead in the early 60's after some vandalism, but was rebuilt (to a basic functional degree only) in the 70's. I am hoping that at some point we'll be able to give it a little 'love' and get the broken contacts and couplers repaired. The organ has a British-built rotary 220 volt blower - that is also 100 years old and at least THAT works flawlessly! The 12 volts for the key-switches is supplied by a vintage hand-wired bridge rectifier in a housing beside the blower. This is a link to what it sounded like in 2018 as I played the chorus 'Your Strength is Perfect' carefully adding some couplers to mask the 'missing notes' on some of the stops and broken wire contacts beneath the keys!.
ruclips.net/video/tJiSfAn1tXQ/видео.html
I do very much enjoy your organ videos!
Cheers
James
I am working my way through the videos I haven’t seen and enjoying the earlier episodes.
Lovely encounter with the little owl! Interesting watching these episodes now, during the height of the British Summer, as the films are filled with the atmosphere & beauty of the Autumn/ Winter season. I do so enjoy the peace & remoteness of the rural landscape and churches during this time.
Wonderful video again. You seem to be quite talented organist. 👏And the way you do these videos is so genuine and honest, I can imagine to be there walking along and sitting in the church. So welcoming feeling too. It's also heartwarming to see someone else beeing interested in these old pipeorgans and old churches too. When I was younger, I thought I was different because of these topics. Good to see younger people finding these things too.
By the way we had in the past before 1960's normally in every school classroom a reedorgan here in Finland, but later pianos replaced them and nowadays you hardly find anymore those instruments. I own two and those are in good shape. That culture/music style is almost dieing out, only folkmusic people and some faithful christians appreciate that instrument and old church music. Anyway pipeorgans are much greater and I wish I would own a small one some day. 😊
A greeting from Norway, and lovers of organ and church music. A very recommendable task you have set out to fulfill, so far, with brilliance.
I think small country side church organs are neglected world-wide, but there are so many nice instruments! You don't always need a huge instrument to make music, on contrary it's a nice challenge to make the most out of a small one! I'd love to hear more of smaller English church organs.
Any halfway competent organist can get a sound from a big organ. It takes a real artist to make a small one sound good.
@@brucealanwilson4121 True that.
Excellent stuff Ben. It's interesting to see and hear all these lovely little organs tucked away around the world.
I'm definitely keen to see more of this series.
In Australia, James Flores is doing a similar exploration and uncovering many hidden gems. I bet England has a hundredfold more in your historic towns and villages. I hope you can tour many of them on our behalf.
I'm not even kidding when I say this is my favorite rendition of Toccata and Fugue I've heard. You love the simplicity of it so much it's just heavenly... God Bless ya, man
I never stop learning (and I’m 77). The tip, about adding the 5th to create a harmonic bass note…. Absolutely priceless.
Forgive me but this little video has captured my imagination. There's so much in the UK i haven't begun to explore. And this little organ is actually rather beautiful, as demonstrated by this fella, Ben Maton. It has me wishing this church well, and to be filled again in future days, if not for worship then for a concert series (but personally i'd love to see a hearty mass said in this place, or a hymn-sing, full of the faithful, with the incense and hymns and music and singing and chant). Indeed, it is awesome to imagine the thousands of people who've worshipped in this little space over the centuries. (The "Communion of Saints" -- All-the-Saints --is a basic part of our Christian faith that inspires and encourages me lots, as does this open church that's maintained today by the faithful.)
What an amazing sound this organ has! Thank you for playing.
You explain things as clearly as an organ You are brilliant and a treasure Ben .
Absolutely brilliant. Thank you so much for doing this. I love the trick with the harmonics. Such a lovely sounding organ.
Way to go, Ben! Preservationist, true, but also these instruments (here in the US as well) are the ONLY pipe organs that people living in these lovely places get to hear, and SING with. The connections you also make with contemporaneous events and people makes it all the richer.
I keep complimenting you but you produce such informative videos and your playing is awesome. I am a huge fan. I am an organist myself based in Hull, Yorkshire.
I would love to hear you play a full recital.
Thank you Ben, these history lesson videos you’ve made are really wonderful.
Fantastic!
I am very much enjoying joining with you visiting lovely old churches. My reminiscences take me back to the 1950/60's and being a chorister in what was our village church, St Leonards in Bursledon Hants and on rare occasions hand pumping the organ due to power failure. Still sing today in a Metropolitan Male Voice Choir but a long way from St Leonards in Burseldon, Adelaide South Australia.
We need more folks showing off these old organs. Not just from England. Lot of history in these old instruments.
Thank you so much for producing such an amazing sound from a simple parish organ,
Bravo, junger Organist, Sie haben das Beste aus dieser begränzten Orgel herausgeholt!
Sends trickles down my spine even after 50 years of learning to love JS Bach.
Superb play8ng❤❤
This has just st popped up on my feed ! I just love what you do!
As a Bach enthusiast, organist, and certified nostalgic young man, I love this video and love you. Keep up the epic work my G
😊❤ Amazing. And so emotional to see how you resurrected modest organ and the proud of people of each small church...❤ this is the way to invite us there back.😊
Subscribed. Looking forward to more love given to these smaller organs that really need it. When I visited the UK last May I was able to admire the instrument that was rescued and now sits for all to admire and experience in London Bridge station; now I get to enjoy your sampling many instruments like it in their native settings. I really like you keeping the focus on hymns and if you do more Bach (which I hope you do), the real beauty of his meditative and emotional chorale preludes seems to emerge from these understated, humble, and too often passed over and forgotten instruments, much like what your most recent posting accomplished. Keep shining the light in these remote corners, sir.
Hi Ben
Love your informative videos and learning a lot about organs.
More to come I expect my handsome friend
Warm regards
Richard
Love Ben's practical approach to the Church Organ. Indeed you cannot compare a rural church with its small electronic to the wonderful churches with endess money to spend on the fabulous instruments. Great player is Ben........
Dear Ben Thank you so much for a wonderful collection of videos whch contain two subjects I love one music the other architecture. You have foubd the write combination to keep me glued. In some ways you remind me of Sir John Betjemen, he did a series on churches - ther is something very special about country village churches. I am a Sussex man and there are many churches here I can recomend to you , Sompting a saxon church, and church in Sullington. I am always recommending your tubes to friends . Any way Happy New Year I hope you have the time energy and inclination to continue your tubes. I wish you all the best David stokes X
I've heard this piece many times, but never brought to tears--until today.
Thank you for these "small parish church organ" series.
These videos are vastly better in terms of documenting England's history than anything on TV, with fabulous organs and music and Ben's quiet but insistent narrative thrown in!!!
But, Ben, you need a cameraman so you can wave your arms around instead of holding the camera!!
These small organs are ideal for a small village church; so much better than an electronic, and there's no shortage of music which can be played on a single manual. It sounds quite beefy when you add the Bourdon. What a pity someone saw fit to screw plastic switches onto it!
Now that was really well played. Excellent!
One of my favourites was always a tiny manual pump organ in a tiny village church in Norfolk I've forgotten the name. I went there for a wedding in 1970.
brilliant! I really enjoyed the harmonic 5th in the foot pedals, really brilliant. You brought glory that humble instrument .
thanks for caring about older, smaller organs! mine on Martha's Vineyard is from 1885, and has a similar sound.
wow. Very special. Uplifting experience and shows just what can be achieved with a rich but smaller instrument
Thank you!
What a lovely small organ that can sound like a larger organ. Amazing.
Great video idea. I love the atmospheric introduction - what fun!
This is fabulous and amazing ♦️♦️
fabulous as always Ben. thank you so much
Great stuff as ever. Thanks Ben
Bravo !!! What a beautiful piece.
Wondrrfull ben thankyou so much
Beautifully presented and filmed thanks you
Beautiful playing
A nice idea for a series: please do more!
Bravo Ben, brilliant! Subscribed. 👏
Fabulous, thank you. Just came across your channel. ❤
That was really interesting. You play beautifully. And what a wonderful church.
Love your channel... I'm learning so much!
Nicely done, Ben!
Great video ! , hope you post more 1
A most interesting video, thank you.
You are so talented!
Another GREAT video !!!! I really enjoy these presentations and Thank You for sharing them with us.
I love your organ series Ben. Your presentation and playing are wonderful. Love the country Church organs. Beautiful.
Your improvisation is exquisite. Thanks so much for sharing music that penetrates so deeply. I would enjoy using this piece for daily meditation.
Lovely demonstration on a small and beautiful Organ! It was really cool seeing those little tips to increase the flexibility of an instrument like that!
A wonderful and interesting explanation of this organ. It’s amazing how you produced such a great sound from one keyboard and a small pedalboard. How fantastic that you are so passionate about preserving these pipe organs, as I think many of us are too. Your passion for and love of these wonderful organs shines through. Thank you for that Ben.
Your videos are great! I enjoy the balance of narration, music, and ambiance, topped by superb editing. I feel like I’m there in the church. Well done!
Thank you Ben. A wonderful and excellent explanation and 'concert'. Reminds me of my youth, when one of my best friends and I would go to the choir loft, at our Catholic Church, St. Joseph's, Somerset County, N. J. Michael would play exactly the piece you played. I would turn the pages and change the stops. On the 2 Manuel pipe organ, with a coupler. It was sold when the new church was built. Now there's an electronic organ. Rodgers or Allen. Not sure....but so good to hear the real thing. And remembering days past. Thank you again. Just found this on RUclips.
I am so enjoying your channel. I am curious as to how long it took you to become so accomplished. I wish you would share some of your journey and inspiration to becoming such a world class performer. Were you a child prodigy with loads of natural talent or were you inspired to study for many years or perhaps some of both? I am so delighted that you are sharing the churches and the music! I am just amazed at the sound that you get out of those old organs. Truly magnificent.
Impressive, watching your videos is informative as well as entertaining. Pipe organs have always been something of a mystery, especially since most church organs in the U.S. are much newer and filled with all sorts of electronics; some of which are massively impressive, but still lacking some of the charm and... character of those you have played. First time I heard a smaller, village parish was in Grasmere, up in Cumbria. (By the way, your CD arrived last week, in one piece and sounding great.)
That organ is a little gem. A bit woofy but your judicious use of stops and tempo made it sound much more than it is. At first when you were demonstrating the individual stops it sounded almost reed-like. But with the full chorus it came into its own. Well done!
Thank you for making these videos talking about the history of the parish and about the organs. It's a great joy. By the way, what is the name of the sanctus? I shivered when I heard this song at the entrance of the church.
It's the Sanctus XI (Mass Orbis factor) in the Roman kyriales.
Wow this is very good!
Thanks!
Ben, I can’t believe you did that on a one-keyboard organ. Amazing!
The chamber organ in the Moravian chapel in East Tytherton with its one keyboard and one octave on the has the most exquisite sound I ever played.
There’s one of these in the Parish Church of Ireland in the village of ‘Drumquin’ Co.Tyrone, N.Ireland
Bravo!
Superb.
Superb…
These are wonderful and sacred pipe organs fellow. 😇🙏🎻
When I look at the old church buildings and graveyards I feel set back to medieval England. Catweazle seems only a corner away.
This organ sounds so sweet.
What a great video. It's tempting to go into a church and assume nothing has been touched for ages, but where I live in Kent, most of the local organs get at least some kind of yearly maintenance, and at least two are fundraising for major repairs or have started the project, so it's not all doom and gloom. We have quite a variety, from small one manuals, a Hill and Sons, a nice but very temperamental neo-baroque by a local builder (Renshawe, who was on Songs of Praise recently) and a three manual Dalladay.
Very entertaining...thamks
Great presentation Ben! I prefer to practice on smaller organs. I find this particularily important when learning new organ pieces. I'm from Western Canada and we have quite a few older romantic tracker organs. Many of them were relocated in the 50's and 60's through the organ clearing house. They are mostly American builders such as Odell, Farrod and Votey, etc. The oldest functioning church organ in Alberta is an 1870 Odell at Highwood Lutheran Church in Calgary, AB. I was organist at this church for almost two years in the late 90's That instrument really taught me a lot. Look forward to hearing more about these smaller instruments. Thank you!
Very similar Bevington specification to the 1849 1 manual instrument in All Saints’ Braunston Northamptonshire.