Nagyon élvezetes volt az orgona bemutatása ! Köszönet érte ! Szívesen emlékszem a Budapest Deák téri evangélikus templomban tartott hangversenyre most nyáron ! ( 2021 ) Üdvözlet egy zenetanártól !
Nothing to add that hasn't been said already except that it makes me very happy that incredible, beautiful instruments like this are still made and installed! Greetings from England :)
The improvisation with the strings on the swell and the flute harmonique 4' was so beautiful I almost cried! great demonstration and great playing. Your videos are always great
That is a great sounding organ. It does seem very versatile. And how clever getting all those pipes into that small building. This was an informative and well spent 1/2 hour. Thank you so much for sharing this.
Love the raw precision of this instrument. Beautifully crafted all around. Huge congratulations, and BTW, this is a really masterful piece of visual and audio editing!
Balint Karosi So with Full Organ mode you have all the Ranks, Stops, & Couplers activated (FX too) which means you can get that sound when you play Bach's Keyboard works. The Organ is another Keyboard instrument & BWV 582 was originally written for Keyboards. The Mixtures give the Pipe Organ its signature shimmer because they play the top notes.
I met you in the choir loft at St. John's looking for your music the other day, yet you somehow manage to record a video in Virginia a few days later. WOW!
The Full Organ Mode certainly makes this thing come to life when you're playing Bach's Organ pieces as well as Rachmaninoff's version of our National Anthem.
Curious how some of the details were executed, particularly the use of lengthy Papflex winding. The winding stutter, slow speech issues in the strings, even the 16' Violon particularly, remind people this instrument is still rooted very firmly in the Germanic T&B tradition with the ever so slightest of bending toward flexibility. Naturally, many modern clients would want electric stop action, expression, and strings! The world of sacred music does not begin and end with the baroque as many "acclaimed" Germanic style builders attempted to push for decades.
Interesting how you always hear or read about a church' previous organ(s) that they paid a lot of money for- like the $300 organ they bought in the Civil War era plus $20 for transport and install to replace the one before it that was allowed to fall apart as the $300 organ subsequently was too, to the extent that nothing was left of it... makes you wonder if in 50 years this now new organ will also be treated the same as the previous one were and allowed to slowly fall apart and need to replaced yet again! I know of another church whose 1929 Kilgen 3 manual was already trash by 2000- just 71 years later, the roof over it was allowed to leak for YEARS- to the extent the plaster and lath ceiling fell on top of the Swell box roofs and the water damage on the large 16' wood pedal pipes was ongoing long enough the wood turned GREY and when I went to remove them with the rest of the organ which they wanted to throw in the dumpster- they literally fell apart in my hands. They were supposed to commission a new organ but then didn't have the funds, so again, you have to wonder if they had bought a new organ (like they did in 1929) would the same thing be allowed to happen again, destroying that organ too in 70 years or less? I'm seeing a lot of wonderful, small tracker organs that seem to be well maintained in Slovakia and hungary, by Rieger Budapest, Frank Strahmer and others, at least one I know in Gyomore Hungary dates to the 1860s in a 1772 church that a 12 year old boy plays all the service music on, yet in America the whole situation is different
Definitely an interesting, yet sad, point that you bring up. I guess we can be glad that there are at least some places out there that maintain their organs well. Although even there, one thing I hear about often is how baroque organs were revoiced and even rebuilt so that they would suit the romantic tastes of the time, and then in modern times were basically restored to as much of their original state as possible (with some inevitable losses due to what the previous builders had done).
@@virginiaorganbuilder You guys did a wonderful job on this organ, I love the chunky plenum that is exactly halfway between a thick Anglican organ and a North German!
The organ is divided between both sides of the sanctuary? Do the trackers go under the floor to the other half of the organ? Which divisions are on the opposite side of the console? Your presentation did not make that very clear.
Another brilliant production by Mr. Karosi. And what an instrument! (By the way, I always wonder about down -votes on such an outstanding RUclips production. But I always have to remember a lot of people would down-vote Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and Jesus Christ. 😀)
These down-voters specifically want to "rub it in our faces," let's face it. They take great delight in being oppositional to ANYTHING and EVERYTHING - it matters not WHAT it is.
Thinking more about this phenomenon of viewers down-voting videos like this one - of course everyone has the right to disapprove of something they dislike, or simply don't understand, and say so publicly. That notwithstanding, reasons readily come to mind why people might down-vote this, and similar, videos: For one, we live in an age when "going to church" (if we attend church at all) is, for the great majority of the American church-going public today, to experience rock bands and Praise and Christian Contemporary Music worship (I call these places of worship 'McChurches'). Why, these people ask, would ANYONE spend their precious money on an ORGAN (which no one in their right mind today would even CONSIDER using, let alone know how to properly play)? There is a vast ocean of incomprehension out there. Another reason: to be a skilled craftsperson and/or talented musician in today's world runs against the grain of people who, again, cannot comprehend why ANYONE would invest serous money in an organ (or pay a skilled, music school-graduate organist a living-wage salary to play it) for any church, when a simple guitar, piano, drum set and/or keyboard synthesizer will more than suffice? A third reason may be that this "older, more traditional" kind of church music seems so elitist, not to mention outdated, to most people alive today. We are experiencing first-hand what the "dumbing-down" of American life has come to mean at and on so many levels.
Great organ!! Funny how Americans pronounce “bass” like “bus”. I wonder how you pronounce the stringed instrument double bass. Do you say “double bus”?
@@grishamlocke1428 You hit this one clear over the wall behind Third BASE and circled all the way 'round to home plate. You did NOT catch a BASS with your fishing tackle! The team was so proud of your game-winning home run that they weren't about to let you take the humble BUS back home. (I'm not sure if a low-note sounded on an organ pedalboard is spelled 'base' or 'bass' note. In any case, in the U.S., it's pronounced the same as we say "basement" or "basic." ) Yet another pronunciation of BASS happens when we're talking about a species of fresh-water fish. Here, we pronounce it the same way as we do, when describing a person who has made a complete and utter fool out of himself: we call him an ASS. Same pronunciation for the fish, only with the letter "B" added.
Funny conversation going on here! I guess I like to pronounce “Subbass” or “Posaunenbaß” the German way, which is not “base,” nor like the fish “bass” but rather “bus” with double “s.” I guess I also pronounce “contrabass” “base” like in “basement.”
@@bkarosi Ok good idea for German pronunciation. However I have heard the this pronunciation before from North American organ nuts. The British/Aussie pronunciation is Sub Bass as in Sub meaning beneath (like submarine) and Bass (like baseball) meaning low. To me it meant either “not the main one” maybe a quiet bass rank as opposed to the pedal open diapason, or “extra low notes”. Kinda makes sense to me that way.
Nagyon élvezetes volt az orgona bemutatása ! Köszönet érte ! Szívesen emlékszem a Budapest Deák téri evangélikus templomban tartott hangversenyre most nyáron ! ( 2021 ) Üdvözlet egy zenetanártól !
Nothing to add that hasn't been said already except that it makes me very happy that incredible, beautiful instruments like this are still made and installed! Greetings from England :)
The improvisation with the strings on the swell and the flute harmonique 4' was so beautiful I almost cried! great demonstration and great playing. Your videos are always great
That is a great sounding organ. It does seem very versatile. And how clever getting all those pipes into that small building. This was an informative and well spent 1/2 hour. Thank you so much for sharing this.
Beautiful organ and pipes! The workmanship in this church is amazing. Thank you for the presentation.
A fantastic instrument and another superb presentation!
Lovely range of stops, and nicely balanced.
Such a beautiful organ which you demonstrate so well. Very versatile for a modest sized instrument.
Cool! Looking forward to it. Not far from me in northern VA.
Great Job on the Vox Coelestis!!
Love the raw precision of this instrument. Beautifully crafted all around. Huge congratulations, and BTW, this is a really masterful piece of visual and audio editing!
Balint Karosi So with Full Organ mode you have all the Ranks, Stops, & Couplers activated (FX too) which means you can get that sound when you play Bach's Keyboard works. The Organ is another Keyboard instrument & BWV 582 was originally written for Keyboards. The Mixtures give the Pipe Organ its signature shimmer because they play the top notes.
I love mechanical action keyboards. They look so cool when you play them.
Csodálatos Templom,Csodálatos Orgona!Kitűnő Orgonista! Köszönöm Szépen!
20:30 Those holes are a sign that they're adding more pipes.
Beautiful church, and another great performance !! Greetings and best wishes from Buenos Aires !!!
I met you in the choir loft at St. John's looking for your music the other day, yet you somehow manage to record a video in Virginia a few days later. WOW!
such a beautiful little church
What a beautiful tone that organ has
The Choir division also has some ringing chimes.
The Full Organ Mode certainly makes this thing come to life when you're playing Bach's Organ pieces as well as Rachmaninoff's version of our National Anthem.
Would've loved to be there live. For some reason, I didn't get the notification for it. Great work as always!
I live near there! Hopefully I can visit the instrument!
I watched one of your videos on the pvc organ pipe.
I tried to think that if I stay in the sound from great all pipe, how I can feel inspiration.
Curious how some of the details were executed, particularly the use of lengthy Papflex winding. The winding stutter, slow speech issues in the strings, even the 16' Violon particularly, remind people this instrument is still rooted very firmly in the Germanic T&B tradition with the ever so slightest of bending toward flexibility. Naturally, many modern clients would want electric stop action, expression, and strings! The world of sacred music does not begin and end with the baroque as many "acclaimed" Germanic style builders attempted to push for decades.
Actually, it did end with the Baroque.
What chords were you using for the vox Celeste, it sounded great
Is this considered very chiffy for an American instrument?
Interesting how you always hear or read about a church' previous organ(s) that they paid a lot of money for- like the $300 organ they bought in the Civil War era plus $20 for transport and install to replace the one before it that was allowed to fall apart as the $300 organ subsequently was too, to the extent that nothing was left of it... makes you wonder if in 50 years this now new organ will also be treated the same as the previous one were and allowed to slowly fall apart and need to replaced yet again!
I know of another church whose 1929 Kilgen 3 manual was already trash by 2000- just 71 years later, the roof over it was allowed to leak for YEARS- to the extent the plaster and lath ceiling fell on top of the Swell box roofs and the water damage on the large 16' wood pedal pipes was ongoing long enough the wood turned GREY and when I went to remove them with the rest of the organ which they wanted to throw in the dumpster- they literally fell apart in my hands.
They were supposed to commission a new organ but then didn't have the funds, so again, you have to wonder if they had bought a new organ (like they did in 1929) would the same thing be allowed to happen again, destroying that organ too in 70 years or less?
I'm seeing a lot of wonderful, small tracker organs that seem to be well maintained in Slovakia and hungary, by Rieger Budapest, Frank Strahmer and others, at least one I know in Gyomore Hungary dates to the 1860s in a 1772 church that a 12 year old boy plays all the service music on, yet in America the whole situation is different
Definitely an interesting, yet sad, point that you bring up. I guess we can be glad that there are at least some places out there that maintain their organs well. Although even there, one thing I hear about often is how baroque organs were revoiced and even rebuilt so that they would suit the romantic tastes of the time, and then in modern times were basically restored to as much of their original state as possible (with some inevitable losses due to what the previous builders had done).
The sound quality of this organ somehow reminds me of the Trost organ in Waltershausen for some reason.
I think is the combination of a plenum with tierces plus the dry acoustics of the church
Thank you!
@@virginiaorganbuilder You guys did a wonderful job on this organ, I love the chunky plenum that is exactly halfway between a thick Anglican organ and a North German!
The organ is divided between both sides of the sanctuary? Do the trackers go under the floor to the other half of the organ? Which divisions are on the opposite side of the console? Your presentation did not make that very clear.
The console side is Great and Choir. The opposite side is Pedal and Swell
Yes the trackers go under the altar.
Dr. Karosi- What microphone/sound system do you use to record the sounds of the Organ itself?
In our church, we have such a door too.
Another brilliant production by Mr. Karosi. And what an instrument!
(By the way, I always wonder about down -votes on such an outstanding RUclips production. But I always have to remember a lot of people would down-vote Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and Jesus Christ. 😀)
These down-voters specifically want to "rub it in our faces," let's face it. They take great delight in being oppositional to ANYTHING and EVERYTHING - it matters not WHAT it is.
Thinking more about this phenomenon of viewers down-voting videos like this one - of course everyone has the right to disapprove of something they dislike, or simply don't understand, and say so publicly. That notwithstanding, reasons readily come to mind why people might down-vote this, and similar, videos: For one, we live in an age when "going to church" (if we attend church at all) is, for the great majority of the American church-going public today, to experience rock bands and Praise and Christian Contemporary Music worship (I call these places of worship 'McChurches'). Why, these people ask, would ANYONE spend their precious money on an ORGAN (which no one in their right mind today would even CONSIDER using, let alone know how to properly play)? There is a vast ocean of incomprehension out there. Another reason: to be a skilled craftsperson and/or talented musician in today's world runs against the grain of people who, again, cannot comprehend why ANYONE would invest serous money in an organ (or pay a skilled, music school-graduate organist a living-wage salary to play it) for any church, when a simple guitar, piano, drum set and/or keyboard synthesizer will more than suffice? A third reason may be that this "older, more traditional" kind of church music seems so elitist, not to mention outdated, to most people alive today. We are experiencing first-hand what the "dumbing-down" of American life has come to mean at and on so many levels.
Organ media foundation/Brent Johnson does great tour/demo videos like this too, always interesting!
Great organ!! Funny how Americans pronounce “bass” like “bus”. I wonder how you pronounce the stringed instrument double bass. Do you say “double bus”?
hey, American here. most people pronounce bass like Base over here!! no shade to the creator of this video, just thought I’d say something.
@@grishamlocke1428 You hit this one clear over the wall behind Third BASE and circled all the way 'round to home plate. You did NOT catch a BASS with your fishing tackle! The team was so proud of your game-winning home run that they weren't about to let you take the humble BUS back home.
(I'm not sure if a low-note sounded on an organ pedalboard is spelled 'base' or 'bass' note. In any case, in the U.S., it's pronounced the same as we say "basement" or "basic." )
Yet another pronunciation of BASS happens when we're talking about a species of fresh-water fish. Here, we pronounce it the same way as we do, when describing a person who has made a complete and utter fool out of himself: we call him an ASS. Same pronunciation for the fish, only with the letter "B" added.
Ive never hear "bass" pronounced that way and I live in America, here it's either "bass" like the fish, or "base" like baseboard or baseball
Funny conversation going on here! I guess I like to pronounce “Subbass” or “Posaunenbaß” the German way, which is not “base,” nor like the fish “bass” but rather “bus” with double “s.” I guess I also pronounce “contrabass” “base” like in “basement.”
@@bkarosi Ok good idea for German pronunciation. However I have heard the this pronunciation before from North American organ nuts. The British/Aussie pronunciation is Sub Bass as in Sub meaning beneath (like submarine) and Bass (like baseball) meaning low. To me it meant either “not the main one” maybe a quiet bass rank as opposed to the pedal open diapason, or “extra low notes”. Kinda makes sense to me that way.