Johannus Church Organ Sweelinck Opus 30 Review
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- This Johannus organ was found at Craig's Pianos & Keyboards Toledo, OH. Everybody has been asking me to review a real pipe organ, and while I'm trying to find one to make videos on, I got one step closer with the Johannus Sweelinck-30 digital pipe organ, which has amazing sounds and a fantastic appearance as well!
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Very good tour of, not only this instrument, but Church or classical organs as well. This is laid out like a typical pipe organ. Never really knew how those mushroom presets worked. Thanks for explaining them. I really enjoy the old hymn tunes that you play. Thanks!
Appreciate your sharing of your adventures in seeing the different types of organs out there. Not to bore you about MIDI, when you record MIDI, it will store potential all activity on the organ- notes on/off, volume changes, stop changes. You can then take the file and import it into recording sortware, or, to another organ that can read it, and the organ will play whatever the file directs it to play/do.
The midi system allows you to record your playing and save it as a file to play back later. It will record all stop changes, key strokes, etc. so when you play it back it is exactly as you played it when recorded.
This organ sounds amazing! It sounds just like a pipe organ! I like the flute sounds. Some of the bass pedal sounds and the trumpet sounds remind me of the cathedral in Liverpool. The Anglican cathedral in Liverpool has an amazing pipe organ.
I love the bird, seems so happy
This is the video I've been waiting for, since I first saw this organ in the background of your harpsichord video. I'm glad you enjoyed playing it! I look forward to seeing you get more confident on the pedals as you spend more time on the Hammond and on instruments like this. I can echo what people have said already: given your obvious enthusiasm, I'm sure you'll easily find a local church happy to let you practice on their instrument. I did, and I'm nowhere near as accomplished a musician as you are.
I can play the pedals quite well, but sometimes do not include them if I am playing from memory on a instrument I am unfamiliar with. Especially if I normally play the piece on a piano without bass pedals. I won a national at 10 years old on the organ on Roland Atelier competition.
If the positive manual is the lower one, as it is the case with this one, it's a Rückpositiv, which is a positive behind the organist. It's located there due to the construction challenges of mechanical Rückpositivs in real pipe organs. And the octaves are almost always octaves of the Prinzipal, which is just a diapason.
I own a Johannus Opus 10 AGO, which is a basically a smaller 2 manual version of this instrument in a more Spartan console cabinet. Mostly the same exact feature set throughout; the Sweenlick 30 adds the 3rd manual, extra stops, and a much nicer looking console. These date from about 1998 through 2005 or so. First off, the Yamaha MIDI Data Filer is just a simple MIDI performance recorder/player that uses 3.5 floppy diskettes for storage. It can be used to record and playback your organ pieces and also back up all of your organ settings. The MIDI Swell/Great etc tabs simply turn on or off the MIDI data output stream from each one of those divisions. They can be used with or without the regular stops. I use them on mine to drive an iPad running some virtual pipe organ apps to sort of 'fill in' the missing stops I wish my organ had :). It sits in a dock next to the music rack and I can easily reach up and turn on or off anything I want in the iPad apps. Anyway...look to the right where the MIDI tabs are and you'll see a Chorus tab. That gives the whole organ a true chorus effect and really helps to alleviate the dry sound when just using the internal console speakers. Next to that is the Intonation 2 tab, which is a whole different set of samples for the stops; it gives the whole organ a brighter German Baroque sound. The expression shoe to the far right is the Crescendo pedal; and that is activated by a white round button marked CR. Hold down a chord and slowly floor that pedal and see what happens; you'll like it :). If you want to know the exact functions of all those 'other' white buttons, reply below :). 'Tutti' is pronounced Tootie, by the way. That corresponds to the round white button marked T.
Lastly, the issue of the Nacthorn '2 in the Pedal (and possibly others too) sounding only in certain ranges of the keyboard is due to corrupted intonation memory that needs to be reset. To do this, hold down the 1 and 8 General pistons (or toe studs) and power on the organ. That will restore the factory voicing of the entire organ and bring back the 'missing notes'. Whew! Did I forget anything?
Very infomative
How much did it cost?
I've owned two Jo. organs - love 'em. Run Hauptwerk with them. As others said: swell, great, choir. left drawer is a midi sequence recorder. Awesome unit. I've used external speakers that radically improve sound.
The Sesquialtera is a two rank mixture which includes a tierce (17th) and a nazard (12th). It is usually used with an 8 stopped flute (Rohr Flute, Stopped Diapason, etc) as a solo voice. It can also thicken up your principal chorus (8', 4', 2', Mixtures).
The vox humana (human voice), is generally used with the tremulant.
Thank you.
No, that´s not at all. The Sesquialter ist build up to a Cornett, when you add on two ways:
1. Gedeckt 8', Flute 4', Octave 2' = German Cornett
2. Principals 8'+4'+2' = French Cornett.
You also can change the 8/4/2 to representatives. Check out, what sounds best.
Looking to play a pipe organ? Come to Connecticut your welcome to come play at the Tomaston Opera House and play the Marr Colton theater pipe organ there it is owned by the CVTOS society im part of
The pipe organ has four families of stops: Principals (Open Diapason, Octave, Principal, Fifteenth, Super Octave, etc.) Flutes (known by many names) Strings (Viola, Salicional, Voix Celeste, Vox Angelica, Gamba, etc.) and Reeds (Trumpet, Oboe, Cornopean, Tuba, Bassoon, Cromorne, Vox Humana, etc.)
Generally you build choruses starting with a stop of 8' pitch and continue upwards, adding the 16' if you want a grander sound - but being careful not to muddy the texture in the process. With the pedal division, you'd generally build a chorus starting from a 16' stop.
The mutation stops (those such as the nazard, tierce or sesquialtera) are used in combination with other stops starting at 8' pitch to provide a solo sound. So, for instance, 8' 4' 2 2/3', 2', 1 3/5' from the same family (flutes or principals) will provide the cornet.
Mixtures are added to cap the principal chorus of 8' 4' and 2' and add brightness and clarity.
The swell trumpets at 16' 8' 4' combine with the mixtures and principals to provide the famous "full swell" effect. Very exciting when hidden under the Great 8' and 4' diapasons, for instance, with the box closed and then you can obtain a crescendo by gradually opening the swell pedal.
Generally, you wouldn't combine flute and principal stops of the same pitch - but note that the Gemshorn and Salicional are not flute stops. (The salicional is a string and the Gemshorn a narrow scaled diapason stop.)
The Vox Humana is usually used with the tremulant to provide a certain effect often used in French romantic music as well as in earlier repertoire.
Great to see that you guessed right many times when you said you didn’t know :-)
Some stops indeed are for ‘filling’ purposes and not intended to use solo.
Johannus is a brand which comes from the Netherlands. The organ you demonstrated was built in German language.
Tutti doesn’t mean ‘all stops’ as you guessed, some ranks don’t match with each other. Thanks for this video, enjoyed it a lot! Like others advised, please play on a real church organ and ‘feel’ the sound.
so it was absolutely and utterly impossible to put the bird in another room?
Stephen Barlow yes get that bird out of there.
I have seen this video a long time ago, and now again. i did'nt notice it before i read you comment. It is so suttle it's allmost impossible to hear, i had to rewind to find it XD. Are you a Karen?
Cope And Seeth, birds are beautiful
I wish I would have known he was in Toledo I would have visited him , I watch his videos on U-Tube every day. He is just great.
You are very lucky to have Craig's piano and Keyboards in town. We recorded four videos while we were there, 3 are uploaded and one more to go in the next few days.
nice Bach. Love the cathedral sound.
You need to do a review on a Rodgers Inspire 227,or 233 organ!
having this in our church would be a dream come true 😔
Overview of Organ stops:
Principals and Diapasons (Open Diapason 8, Diapason 8, Principal 8, Prinzipal 8, Montre 8; Principal 4, Octave 4, Prinzipal 4, Prestant 4; Twelfth, 2 2/3, Quite 2 2/3; Fifteenth 2, Superoctave 2, Doublette 2; Seventeenth 1 3/5; Double Open Diapason 16, Open Wood 16, Double Diapason 32; Mixture II - X, Fourniture II - X (Most stops with roman numerals at the end)) 3:32, You’re spot on, These are the foundation to all organ tone. Great for ensemble registrations at 8 and 4; 8, 4 & 2; 8, 4, 2 & Mixture and adding the mutations (2 2/3 and 1 3/5) for more colour. Never use mixture and mutations by themselves.
Flutes (Bourdon 8, Stopped Diapason 8, Open Flute 8, Harmonic Flute 8, Hohlflöte 8, Rohrflöte 8; Traverse Flute 4, Koppelflöte 4, Clear Flute 4, Spitzflöte 4; Nazard/Nasard/Nazat 2 2/3; Piccolo 2, Harmonic Piccolo 2, Waldflöte 2, Ovtavin 2; Tierce/Terz 1 3/5; Quiteflöte 1 1/3, Larigot 1 1/3; Sifflöte 1, Sifflet 1; Bourdon 16, Subbass 16; Contre Bourdon 32; Cornet II-V) Flutes are much mellower, contain less harmonics and are broader than the Diapasons/Principals. The open flutes sound more like their orchestral counterpart than the stopped ones do. Mutations are great for solos as long as they don't overpower the 8 foot tone. The Cornet is a good solo registration using flutes at 8, 4, 2 2/3, 2 and 1 3/5 (Somtimes swapping a flute for a principal can alter the tone a bit.
Strings (Viol de orchstre 8, Viol da Gamba 8, Gamba 8, Salicional 8, Dulciana 8, Viol 8, Cello 8 (Pedal); Voix Celeste 8, Vox Angelica 8, Viol Celeste 8, Unda Maris 8; Viol 4, Salicet 4, Dulcet 4, Violone 16; Contre Violone 32; Dulciana Mixture II-X) String have a lot of harmonics and are narrow in diameter. They often are paired with a Celeste stop which is tuned sharp (or sometimes flat), They are great for accompaniments are warmer ensembles.
Solo Reeds (Oboe 8, Houbois 8, Clarinet 8, Krumhorn 8, Vox Humana 8, French Horn 8; Dulzina 16,) These are used for solo registrations. Reeds are the most colourful stops on the organ. They work using a metal reed inside a wooden or metal resonator.
Ensenble reeds (Trompette 8, Trumpet 8, Cornopeon 8; Clarion 4, Schalmai 4; Bombarde 16 Basson 16, Posoune 16, Fagott 16; Contre Bombarde 32, Contre Fagott 32) These are generally used together or with Principals. Some reeds like the Trumpet family also can be used as solos too. The Pedal 16 foot reeds generally give more snarl to the sounds.
Sorry if someone else already mentioned it, I was to lazy to read over all the comments. Vox Humana is a stop that is designed to sound like a human voice. It is a reed pipe, so thats why its is set by the trumpet.
The Gedeckt is pronounced Ga-decked
The Vox humana is a Regal with short cups on it. You need to try it with the tremulant. It has a really nice sound, like a Person whould sing.
Gedeckt is like a Bourdon, but with a little more harmonics.
The Rauschpfeife on Pedal is a Mixture, and could be translated with "hissing pipe".
Yes, and Sweelinck should be pronounced Sway-link,
My favorite stop is the Trompette en Chamade. It's a fanfare that sits on high wind pressures and is extremely bright and loud sounding.
On this organ, the Festival Trumpet is doing that job. It is similar to a chamade but it sits vertically in the windchest rather than horizontally pointing out.
I love Pipe Organ !!!
gedackt (ge-dact) is a flute stop that is capped with a little chimney that sticks out of the top
a nachthorn is another flute stop.
and the rauschpfeif is a mixture, which is a number of different pitched ranks of a diapason pipe
Positif is a French/german term for the lower manual on a three manual organ. In America, it’s generally called a choir manual. If an organ has more than 3 manuals, the names can differ between organs. Generally, they would be called solo, antiphonal(if there are pipes in a different location compared to the main instrument)or bombarde. I am an organist, so I can answer any questions you may have
James,
I saw that gleam in your eyes and that smile when you triggered the all stops button.
It's time for a "Pirates of the Caribbean rumble! arrrrrrrhhhhhh
Cheers,
Rik Spector
It was powerful!
Tutti doesn’t activate all of the stops as some of them are so quiet that they just wouldn’t be heard so they are not included in full organ.
My practice organ is a Johannus Opus 5. I love it. It's got incredible clarity. If you don't have the space for real pipes, this is the next best thing.
I really enjoyed playing the Johannus.
That's the model right below mine. All these organs are from the same lineage. The Sweenlick organs are/were more dressed up versions of the Opus organs. I think the main difference is more audio channels as well as nicer looking consoles.
love the fun stuff too.
nazard is a flute stop that plays a two-octave and a fifth more than the note played. it is often combined with an 8, 4, 2, and 13/5 tierce to create a cornet, a stop that is used as a solo stop and sounds reedy
My church has a $300,000 Johannus. It’s a quite formidable instrument, ebony naturals, rosewood accidentals, 3 keyboards, extra large pedal board, 99 stops (including some incredibly rare pipes like vox humana and a 64’) It has a gothic case, and is incredible to play as it sounds incredibly realistic. I really couldn’t speak more highly of it
I would think this one is nowhere near that price. At the time we were there we remembered it being very reasonably priced.
@@DandyDon1 32' pipe actually speak at 16Hz, so a 64' stop would speak even lower than that.
@@ThePianoforever True
OK so a few explanations/translations. Rohrflute comes from German rohrflöte where rohr means reed. So it imitates a reed pipe. Sesquialtera is a double row of pipes where one gives you the fifth, the other one the third above the octave. Add a 8' stop to it and you have a major chord :) . Nasard gives you the fifth in a characteristic nasal tone - hence it's name. Fagotto is Italian for bassoon. Schalmei is the name of a historical instrument, in French it's chalumeau, think of it as a precursor of the clarinet. Scharf is a very high mixture. Mixtures generally consist of several rows of stacked octaves and fifths. Cymbale (or cymbel, or Zimbel) is even higher. Rauschpfeife is something similar for the pedal division. Gedackt means stopped pipe, so the end of the pipe is not open. Therefore it sounds an octave lower, a Gedackt 8' is actually only 4 feet long, but it sounds like an 8' open pipe, but darker, smoother. Salicional comes from Latin "salix" meaning willow, so it imitates a willow pipe. Oh, and Quintaton (or quintadena) is a type of stop where the second harmonic, the fifth is very strong. Organ building has its own history, there are national schools and styles so you will find stops like these under very different names on different organs. The Krummhorn for instance will be called Cromorne on a French organ, the Principal will be called Diapason on an English organ and Montre on a French organ and so on.
The midi most likely is to map add on module to the instrument. A module such a mine has 20 ranks and you can choose which groups of the sounds can be mapped to which manual. For instance if i wnated to play my pedal sounds on a manual I could why you would do that i don't know 32' stops on a manual are a bit deep.
Fagotto = Bassoon
Very good instrument. This is capable of a lot of things, but I would imagine that it takes a while to master.
james you should come to Michigan. and play the huge pipe organ. at the fox theater in Detroit. you would have a lot of fun with it. I did it brifeley. once with the help of lance luse. he is an well known artist. also were waiting to see him in concert. playing the lowrey digital one at ceasers hockey arena. we haven't got the day and time yet.
I've always heard the positive division of the organ pronounced as "pose-i-teef."
And you are correct, that’s the original German pronunciation
you are correct sir.
Also similar to the French pronunciation
what happens when no stops are on? does the organ just not sound?
RigaRiggleMan Correct.
Thank you. Sorry for the late reply 🤣
PS. I know you get lots of requests but next time you are at the keyboard of a piano, organ or harpsichord, how about the old hymn; “Deck Thyself My Soul with Gladness”?
‘Rauschpfeife’ is reed pipe in English. A woodwind instrument used in Germany in 16th and 17th centuries :)
But it consists of a 2⅔' and a 2' principal or diapason stop... At least to my knowledge...
Sforzando, is that last pedal---for everything on the organ.
en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Organ/Operating_the_Console
Near the bottom of this Wikipedia entry.
I did a service (when the Youth Fellowship took over once a year (oh my God: 48 years ago)) where I increased the volume for every verse of the perennial Methodist favorite "Rejoice, he pure in Heart', and hit the spforzando pedal (this manufacturer seemed to spell it funny), for the last verse. They sang louder, with more passion for each passing verse. They sang themselves hoarse on that last verse---and loved it!!!
The pipe organ can give a 14 year old piano player a real thrill, when it can elicit that feeling of "power" and emotion. I remember it fondly to this day.
Our JOHANNUS Sweelink cannot interface with a MIDI sound expander. The dealer says, tough luck, Bubba!
James, have you played on a Wersi?
I looked through many of your vids, and searched your YT ch name with Wersi, but found nada.
I feel that Wersi surpasses Roland in electronic organs.
Perhaps you'll try one sometime, but look WERSI up on the tube.
I first heard one in the 80s, and was very impressed.
The Donald
I bought a wersi omega dx10 from 1987 last week and I just love it. It's a great organ that has so much potential that I can't even make use of because I am not the best player. I just wanted an organ that has a nice Hammond style sound for the rock music I play
MIDI sequencing controller and separate manual interfaces.
Du hast viel Glück mit dieser Digitalorgel Zuhause!
It's not mine, but it is for sale if someone wants a really great organ.
I like your leather Jacket.
James, next time you play a Johannus, open up the back and look at the quality inside. Great sound is nice at first, but considering how much these organs cost, it’s also important to consider how long the instrument is going to last.
These organs lasts for decades. The first johannus my family bought back in 2004 ish, is still in use in use in a house of prayer nearby today. It was an opus 25. Speakers sound like they always did, keyboard and buttons still works like new. Same story for the many other Johannus organs we have owned. We just bought a Johannus Vivaldi 350. One of the best home organs there is, and it's amazing.
The “Octave” stop is a Principal stop (sometimes called a Diapason), not a flute stop.
oh boy, so there are a few things to make a point of. First, the bottom manual is called the positif (po-ze-TEEF) and the quintaten is a quiet flute stop that has a pronounced overtone, usually put in the pedal or combined with other flute stops to create classic baroque registrations. The voix celeste is only applicable to a string stop of the same length, It on the instrument you have demonstrated only should go with the viole de gamba 8', but on other instruments, it could go with a salicional, violon celle, or gemshorn. and the octave stop is actually a diapason, not a flute. You would pair it with the principal 8, not the rohrflote (rower-floatah)
it doesn't activate all the stops because those other stops will not change the overall full organ sound.
Hey James you could afford a Steinway Piano why don't you purchase this Johannus pipe organ back to your home?
You should find the time to sit down at a Wurlitzer pipe Organ. Might open up a whole new series of doors for you. The website for the American Theatre Organ society will list theatre organs in your area
The J is pronounced like a Y in the Germanic languages.
Thank you.
The Scandinavien languages spell that phonem J, too.
A Nazard 2 2/3 is a twelfth. If you mix it with a flute you can get a clarinet. A fagotto is a bassoon.
Come to Canada and see ours
14:54 - Rauschpfeife - Pronounced Raush-Feifeh or Rush-Pipe; lots of German words on the stops like Rohr is tube and Wald is forest
Ilive in a college town, name Oberlin, and Finny Chapel has a pipe organ.
I have yet to go there, but heard that college students play on it.
A YT friend, Gary hd7100 from Wisonsin has a pipe organ in his home.
He know much aboit them, you may like to sub him and check him out.
I believe it's a Wurlitzer theatre organ.
Don
Doesn't the Oberlin Chapel have a Fisk Organ?
Initially, distracting & irritating bird spoils the overall effect. Cheers!
Glad somebody said it. Feed that thing.
Блестящий!
a vox humana is a solo reed stop that is meant to emulate a human voice, which is meant to be played with tremulant
Go to Our lady Queen of the most Holy Rosary Cathedral in Toledo and you can find a 1920s E.M. Skinner Pipe Organ
More manuals? Try Choir and Solo.
4 manual organ usually have 1. Positif 2. Great. 3. Swell 4. Choir
usually an organ would either have a positif or a choir, or if they have both, it would usually both be located on the first manual, but in the French symphonic tradition, only 5 manual instruments have a choir (grand choeur) which holds the reeds and mixtures (anches) which are meant to be played on the first manual coupled with the reeds and foundations (fonds) from other keyboards such as the grand orgue. This forms a tutti. On american instruments a solo division could be on top, if it were unenclosed, it would be the bombard, and in five manual instruments, an orchestral, stentor, antiphonal, or even a separate organ located elsewhere in addition to the main case that is on another manual called the echo division.
Not quite Choir, Great, Swell, Solo.
Given your talent, you really should take a few organ lessons. Learn about organ registration (the four kinds of stops and how to combine them) and proper fingering, not to mention the pedals. You would be awesome!
Regal is a mini organ from many hundreds of years
Just go up no call various places with Pipe Organs and ask I'm sure someone would be glad to let you play their organ or contact ATOS they have members that have Home installations that love to show off their Pride and joy.
Yes, I am sure you are right. I have been so busy as of late that I really have not been able to spend as much time as I would like search out some of these great instruments. I am getting ready to go to NAMM in the next few days, and have been invited to visit the Schiedmayer booth. They are from Germany and make very high quality hand made musical instruments including, but not limited to the Schiedmayer Celesta.
If you like to, come to germany and have a look to our pipe organs. It´s near cologne. We have a lot of pipe organs here and i could show you, how they work (mechanic, electric, pneumatic).
A good source for anyone interested in pipe organ stops is the Encyclopedia of Organ Stops: www.organstops.org/Tons of information on history, construction, materials and voicing. Many references and sound examples as well.
Hi! "Rauschpfeife" - i'ts hard toi describe how it's pronouinced correctly. Something like "Roush" and then theres no sound in English that would be like "pf" it is a "p" followed by an "f", the end is rather easy, it's "ifa". The whole word translates to something like "Noise pipe" or "Noise whistle".
that's an oldie.
14:54 the Rauschpfeife stop is a conical double-reed that is similar to the Crumhorn. The literal translation from German is Rush Pipe, or Reed Pipe. It's odd that it's labeled as a Mixture with the IV notation. That means that particular stop contains 4 ranks of "pipes"
a cromorne is a clarinet like reed that is baroque
a schalmey is an oboe like reed also baroque
and cornet is pronounced (core-nay)
Positif is pronounced, *Poe*, as in Edgar Allen Poe. *Si*, as in Sit, and *Tif*, as in Queen Latifah.
Here's how to pronounce that bottom manual. It's pronounced POSE-a-TEEF. (with the accent on the first syllable).
My son asked if you can next time find an organ can you play the Phantom of the Opera
I would love to play Phantom of the Opera. I think it would sound really cool in a large building with lots of reverb, maybe with the lights out (very spooky).
Wouldn't use it by itself because frankly myself
I dont know anything about midi either....way too complicated for me
Vox is voice in Latin, ergo vox humana is human voice. The fagolt is from the English bassoon
"Vox Humana" is Latin for 'human voice'.
I have a Johannus organ and fortunately it didn't come with a pesky bird.
Johannus Sweelink is how it’s pronounced.
You do need to get to a real organ. This instrument is giving you only a caricature of a pipe organ.
A principal difference between pipe organs and electronic organs is in the physics of tone generation. The speaker(s) of the latter are limited to resonating en masse and uniformly on the square (the area of a speaker's diaphragm) while pipes resonate individually on the cube: the unique speaking volume of each of the pipes. This is the main reason that electronic organs sound flat (2-dimensional), even if their voices have been sampled from real organs, which this one doesn't seem to be.
The vertical order of manuals was established before electrification, during the days of the classical organ-builders of Germany and Holland, later of France, by the requirements of tracker layout. If the organ had a division located behind the organist-the Rückpositiv ["back-positiv" (pronounced poze-ih-TEEF in both German and English words & if spelled "positive", it's "poze-ih-TEEVE", à la française)]-its keyboard would be the lowest (with its trackers running in the platform under the console and organist) and the Hauptwerk ([howpt-verk] "main-work", Eng. "great") manual would be placed above it. [Pedal-division trackers avoid manual trackers by running at right angles off to the sides: to the tower wind chests.]
On an organ with more than two manuals, the divisions lying above the Hauptwerk would be arranged in order, from that division nearest overhead the organist (being the closest set of trackers & on the highest manual), so that the trackers of each division didn't have to cross each other. One can visualize them from the side as nested L's, leading from each manual to its air chest. Later, when swell divisions became fashionable, that manual would be placed in the order above the great according to the swell division's physical placement: it could be just above the great or farther up, above the positiv. This often reflected the number of pipes/stops it contained: the larger that number, the more important it was, so the closer to the great its keyboard would appear.
Even on modern tracker-action organs, this is the general layout. Check the Lay-Family Fisk in the Meyerson in Dallas [www.cbfisk.com/instruments/opus_100] (Video: ruclips.net/video/EJfPnp8AS_k/видео.html [note the physical coupler-action]), on which the great is the lowest manual because there is no rückpositif.
BTW. "Positifs" were originally (a few still are) movable, single-manual organs. This mobility required that they have a smaller number of wooden [or very small, metal] pipes, rather than the large, metal diapason pipes associated with larger, stationary organs, and so their sound was, and has remained, softer: associated with wooden pipes (gedackts take half the length of an open pipe to sound the same fundamental tone), and with more distinct, less brash, solo reeds, like the vox humana, krummhorn or regal [reh-GALL]. The historical process of adding originally separate organs as divisions within an extended, complete one is one reason why the older (now largely literary) French term for "the organ" was "les orgues", in the plural.
BTW2. "Sweelinck" is "SWAY-link".
If you heard an Allen Organ you would not be able to tell that it was not pipes. They are very good and even have "chiff" Most people cannot tell the difference.
It sure sounds electronic...not anything like a pipe organ.
Everything you listen to on youtube will sound electronic because your listening to it through the speakers of your phone.
Great looking organ, but I prefer the sound of the Hammond. That's just me.
Just a few "notes"... The Sweenlinck line of organs is actually more of a "value" line for Johannus. Compared to most of today's digital instruments, it's sound is pretty bad and the build quality of the console isn't that great either. You shouldn't hear that "plastic" sound when playing the manuals. That's a sign of a cheaply built console. There are few things that are truly standard about organ consoles, but Johannus consoles are the worst for standards. For example, when using the crescendo pedal (the balanced pedal farthest to the right), or using tutti (which is pronounced tootie, btw), the stops should not light up. If you want a much better fake, find yourself a newer Allen or even a Rodgers. Johunnus organs don't start to sound good until you get into much higher price ranges, and by then you almost might as well buy an actual pipe organ. For comparison... ruclips.net/video/4GqJEND8npo/видео.html a $110K digital organ installed in 2014. It's the equivalent of 55 ranks of pipes in a sanctuary that seats 500. ruclips.net/video/N4TP1Elf9mI/видео.html is a pipe organ of 95 ranks in a sanctuary that seats about 1,000. I'm not sure how much this instrument cost, but I would estimate it to be millions.
Mark, there is no question that the higher priced Johannus organs do sounds better, but a detractor to the the sound of this Sweelink model may be that it was apparently played throught the console speakers. We have a Johannus Opus 30 (the lowest model line of Johannus) in our church, and through the external speakers, in a more expansive acoustic environment, it sounds way better than the recording in this video, very pipelike. It sounds pretty drab, dead, and electronic through its console speakers, but very "alive" and realistic through the external speakers. I have played many different church pipe organs, and really think the Johannus Model 30 is a very satisfying alternative for our situation. It is a small church, and I appreciate that we could afford a 51-rank "virtual" pipe organ that fits in our space and sounds so close to the real thing. For me as the church organist, it is a miracle, a dream come true. The space occupied by a real pipe organ of this size would consume our entire fellowship hall, not to mention costing on the order of 100X what we paid for our Johannus. Plus tuning and maintenance...
Sweelinck... Pronounced Svaylink ! What is it with people and pronunciation.