What a wonderful instrument. So bright and clear and with a wonderful ensemble sound . Even the clacking of the trackers is musical. It must be a joy to play and feel beneath your hands.
I love this very old tradition of coupling the keys. I tried an old pump organ when I was 10 years old and I played jigs and reels they were very special to me on that old relic. I love your demonstrations. You play very well and are trained very well. I love this organ very much I never knew there was a FRENCH organ I thought they were all the same. Interesting to know. I can see how much you love playing the organ! It's such a powerful instrument. So many Characteristics of the voices very unique in every way. I remember when we got a new Organ in our Church "SAINT PAULS" Anglican church the New Organ had Brown instead of white keys and instead of sharps and flats being Black they were white like this organ. I loved the new look, to me it was new. I played on it a few times but as I am not trained I wouldn't call myself a church organist by any means of the word. Thank you Paul. Loved this.🎹🎹🎶🎶🎹🎹🎶🎶🎹🎹🎶🎶🎹🎹🎶🎶☃☃🏂🏂⛄⛄❄❄⛷⛷🌹🌹❤❤
The Remy Mahler are one of the finest instruments recently made, is one of the most eclectic organ builders, he know how to make the perfect voicing in their instruments.
Dankeschön, lieber Paul! Diese Demo war wieder eimal sehr interessant und die Orgel ist auch ein echtes Meisterstück. Deine Erklärungen und dein Spiel war super, wie immer. Liebe Grüße aus Görlitz sendet dir Steffen. Bis demnächst.
Dear Paul, what a delightful sounding organ. Thanks for sharing these wonderful organs and demonstrating with such excitement! I just got home from tuning pianos and lo and behold my Adventure Collection ll was in my mailbox!! Can’t wait to read through them!! 💕. Thank you!! Royden
Thank you, Paul! I often wonder how you keep any of these wonderful, yet very much different, instruments identified in your head. I'd be swimming in confusion, I think. This one is delightful, and that case and console exquisite.
If you are talking about an Organ of the Future take a look at the new 124 stop Rieger instrument in Helsinki Concert Hall. Some futuristic points: - proportional key action on the movable electric console, pallet valve follows the key press speed. Pure tracker action console also available next to the instrument. - proportional slider action on stop tabs, not just on/off. - adjustable wind on two divisions. - microtonal stops on one of the divisions. - sostenuto, either to next press or infinite length available on all keys. - all possible modern playing aids.
Amazing instrument, no swell! Beautifully played. I have one little complaint, please use a mic for your recordings, I find it hard to hear your voice and crank the volume then the instrument is much too loud. Well, not really for me, but my neighbours. Thank you for the amazing demonstration and sharing your gifts of. music.
What you’re hearing is action noise from the trackers connected to the keys. It’s very strange, when you are sitting in front of it, you don’t really notice them, but if you record with a mic close to the console, it always picks up way more action noise than you actually hear sitting there. I guess it leaks out more to the side than straight up through the keys, but I couldn’t tell you why that would be.
I have always preferred the tight sound of a case organ. I used to regularly play a small Baroque voiced 25 stop Casavant that no less than Peter Hurford declared as one of the best North German voiced organs in the world. Just goes to show that you don't 1000 ranks to be great.
zurück in die Zukunft einer französischen Barock-Orgel...? okay, das Klappern der Tasten als Feature zu verkaufen (und nicht als Bug) kann mann bei dem wirklich wunderbaren Klang vielleicht noch nachvollziehen... aber wo war jetzt das Futur (Captain) 😎
Why are the keys so noisy? Surely they shouldn't sound like that. So you have a beautiful sounding organ accompanied by a constant rattling noise from the keyboard. Really? Not very well built if they can't get something like that right.
@@Hifimusicman Naaah, a mechanical organ has to sound like that - it‘s a real action and not some electronic alternative. Since the video is recorded up close the clicking is very prominent - it is inaudible in the church itself. The recording quality is on me, so I‘m happy to take the blame 😀
I've got to agree with @Hifimusicman , even if your microphone is picking up the clatter more than your ear might it's still way more noisy than it needs to be. I've personally built the tracker action of several large organs and there is no need for this level of action noise. Good design, construction and regulation will make action noise inaudible even in a large mechanical chassis. That said, it's a truly astounding organ. I love the sound and the look, the whole thing is great and I'll be looking at more organs by Remy. Thanks for the video, really enjoyed it.
@@TheBellsandwhistlesDiese Orgel ist ein handwerkliches Meisterstück, vollmechanisch und ohne jedweden elektrischen oder elektronischen Schnickschnack. Die Tastaturgeräusche, das leise Rauschen der Windlade, das Surren der Seilzüge, all das gehört dazu. Sie erinnert mich an meine spanische Meistergitarre, die handwerklich in der Tradition des 19.Jahrhundertes gebaut wurde. Keine CNC-Fräse, kein elektronisch gesteuerter Cutter, sondern einfachste Werkzeuge in der Hand eines großen Meisters haben sie geschaffen. Im Ergebnis spricht sie mit mir. Genauso erlebe ich diese Orgel, als wenn sie mit ihrem Spieler spricht. Die Nebengeräusche sind Teil dieses Gesprächs.
@@Zitat-ist-auch-nicht-mehr-das I'm glad you like it, as you rightly say it is a masterpiece by a great craftsman. My comment was simply that it is not necessary to have action noise in a mechanical action. It is common, and if you like that then I have no problem with that. My personal taste (which I'm not trying to convert anyone to) if for silent action if possible so I can hear the beauty of the voicing. I love your idea of a conversation between organ and organist, pipe organs certainly speak to me in ways that electronic instruments don't!
As wonderful as the sounds of this organ, with the exception of the anoying 'clicking' sounds coming from the keyboards, why do organ builders and the organizations that pay for these organs build instruments that fetishize the mechanical difficulties of the past? Why build instruments that make playing the instrument harder than it already is, and needs to be? I know that in the "organ world" there is a turf war still going on between real pipes vs digital, and I like both, but I'm not talking about that battle so much as I am about churches and concert halls building these clunky instruments with nobs, drawbars, mechanical doo-dads etc. which an organist has to work into their routine in order to not make a mess of their playing? Instruments that are almost brand new but unintentionally (intentionally?) made harder to play? What musical Lego Land do these designers and planning committees live in?
Please be very careful not to cast a polite comment from a renowned performer into an enthusiastc endorsement. This instrument is top heavy, underscaled, poorly voiced, and has inferior (why bother) reed tone. A Gamba shouldn't chiff, and it also shouldn't be so quiet that the sound of the trackers moving drowns out the steady tone of the rank at the console. This emperor is scantily clad, perhaps not naked, but certainly wearing a bathing costume that is lacking adequate modesty.
@@billraty14 Are you sure about that? Which kind of organ style did you grow up with and where are you from? I think this adds much to the equation - I personally think that its a very wonderful approach to a french (pre-) baroque instrument. I feel like it was well balanced, the recording doesnt do it justice.
@@PaulFey I grew up with the sound of the Aeolian-Skinner of the Mormon Tabernacle, which was branded as "American Classic", (a polyglot), to serve musically, but not necessarily authentically, all national schools, but effectively is mostly English after Willis, with additional mutations and adjustments in balancing. Alexander Schreiner was the organist of the SLC Tabernacle during the late 1940s rebuild, and he studied under Louis Vierne at Notre Dame in the early 1930s. The foundation stops of the Great are named "Montre". The reeds are claimed to be "French", but really they're not much different than EM Skinner, and certainly are dissimilar to the Cavaillle-Coll at St Sernin in Toulouse. Flues do quite well on lower wind pressures (3.5-4.5 inches of wind), but romantic reed tone usually requires higher wind pressures for good singing tone (7.5 - 15 inces), which is problematic with mechanical note action. Cavaillle-Coll had the Barker lever to get past that limitation. The Tabernacle at the time of the late 1940s rebuild had electro-pneumatic pitman chests. I haven't heard if Schoenstein changed the wind chests on the Tabernacle when Jack Bethards brillantly rebuilt the instrument in 1988-1989.
@@PaulFey recording an organ is a black art because microphones, even the best, aren't human ears, which are innately spectrum analyzers (cochlea) attached to a neural network.
What a wonderful instrument. So bright and clear and with a wonderful ensemble sound . Even the clacking of the trackers is musical. It must be a joy to play and feel beneath your hands.
I love this very old tradition of coupling the keys. I tried an old pump organ when I was 10 years old and I played jigs and reels they were very special to me on that old relic. I love your demonstrations. You play very well and are trained very well. I love this organ very much I never knew there was a FRENCH organ I thought they were all the same. Interesting to know. I can see how much you love playing the organ! It's such a powerful instrument. So many Characteristics of the voices very unique in every way. I remember when we got a new Organ in our Church "SAINT PAULS" Anglican church the New Organ had Brown instead of white keys and instead of sharps and flats being Black they were white like this organ. I loved the new look, to me it was new. I played on it a few times but as I am not trained I wouldn't call myself a church organist by any means of the word. Thank you Paul. Loved this.🎹🎹🎶🎶🎹🎹🎶🎶🎹🎹🎶🎶🎹🎹🎶🎶☃☃🏂🏂⛄⛄❄❄⛷⛷🌹🌹❤❤
Fantastic sound. And I actually like the tracker action. Almost a percussion instrument in it self
Loved it Paul and you certainly got the phobes riled up!
Who, very magnificent organ, dear Paul and... a french one ❤❤
Thank for your presentation. Guy
Tolle Orgel, brillante Präsentation Paul. Ich wünsche Dir ein schönes Wochenende. Liebe Grüße. Gerd
The Remy Mahler are one of the finest instruments recently made, is one of the most eclectic organ builders, he know how to make the perfect voicing in their instruments.
Very Nice sounding Instrument as You go through the stops and Very Great presence reaching upwards , MagicalPipes
What a marvelous, unique sound! And the calligraphy on the stops is a little bit of extra "icing on the cake"! Thanks so much!
Dankeschön, lieber Paul! Diese Demo war wieder eimal sehr interessant und die Orgel ist auch ein echtes Meisterstück. Deine Erklärungen und dein Spiel war super, wie immer. Liebe Grüße aus Görlitz sendet dir Steffen. Bis demnächst.
Dear Paul, what a delightful sounding organ. Thanks for sharing these wonderful organs and demonstrating with such excitement!
I just got home from tuning pianos and lo and behold my Adventure Collection ll was in my mailbox!! Can’t wait to read through them!! 💕. Thank you!! Royden
Very lovely sounding organ. Thanks 🙏🏻 for showing it to us and giving us a demonstration.
🌴☀️🌴
Thank you, Paul! I often wonder how you keep any of these wonderful, yet very much different, instruments identified in your head. I'd be swimming in confusion, I think. This one is delightful, and that case and console exquisite.
Splendid, Strong, Convincing.... The right organ explored by the very best musician organist. Merci Paul
Fantastic! ... I must get one of these.
Paul, this is an awesome piece of music. You were great on the pedals! ❤🎉😊
Magnificent sounds
Beautiful sounding instrument. ❤❤.
Paul, that is one of the most lovely organs you have found and played in a long time, Cheers!
Thank you so much. A very impressive instrument and a very enjoyable presentation. RUclips is enriching my life. I love gems like this.
Love the font on the draw knobs, almost whimsical. Thank you, Paul, an amazing instrument.
I so look forward to these videos! I love the organ demo that you walk us through. Keep making the "behind the scenes" videos! They are my favorite!!
BRILLIANT - no other words ! 🙂
awesome instrument! WOW
Sehr schöne Demo, vielen herzlichen Dank 👌👍
Thank you Paul .What an amazing instrument .I ❤ it 👍😀
Absolutely fantastic my friend!😁👍👏👏👏
Lovely “full” tone which I imagine fills the space very well.
If you are talking about an Organ of the Future take a look at the new 124 stop Rieger instrument in Helsinki Concert Hall. Some futuristic points:
- proportional key action on the movable electric console, pallet valve follows the key press speed. Pure tracker action console also available next to the instrument.
- proportional slider action on stop tabs, not just on/off.
- adjustable wind on two divisions.
- microtonal stops on one of the divisions.
- sostenuto, either to next press or infinite length available on all keys.
- all possible modern playing aids.
Herrliche Orgel. Danke für die Führung. !!!!
👏👍❤️ Grande Paul!!
It sounds amazing!
🎶🎶🎶🎶
Llovely!
🎉
💗
Wonderful instrument!
a fascinating instrument.
Thanks Paul. What an instrument!
Well done, Paul.♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Danke für die Führung. !!!
Bravo Maestro Paul Fey!!!
wow, die klingt einfach nur hammer 😍😍😍😍👍
Sehr schön anzuhören Paul Fey
Bravo Maestro Paul Fey ❤
Sehr schön Paul Fey ich freue mich
Ich bin begeistert von dieser Orgel
Te felicito! Sigue así! Muéstranos más órganos y háblanos de su composición. El órgano es arte!
Powerful like the sound
Your playing is amazing! Why are the keys so noisy? Thanks for sharing!❤
I think you should definitely try out the organ in the Regensburger Dom.
Wunderbar Paul Fey ❤
The action seems to be fairly light. I wonder what it is like on the coupled manual. It seems like quite an interesting organ.
Hervorragend Paul Fey ❤
👏👏👏👏👏👏 prima Paul
Große Begeisterung !!!
Wow! Solche Instrumente machen Hoffnung für den künftigen Orgelbau. Endlich was anderes als was in deutschen Kathedralkirchen "rauf und runter" steht.
I love it @Paul fey
Absolutely beautiful organ. What’s with the clicking noise with the keys? As usual, your demonstration of this grand instrument is superb!
Clicking is absolutely typical of the all mechanical linkage of tracker organs
@@epincion not if it's adjusted properly
@@aa-oq1ev there is always a baseline clicking, certainly poor adjustment will likely make it worse
It is a tracker organ you are hearing the mechanical action. Not heard in the church over the pipes.
The best way I can describe this organ is syrup. Truly wonerful
Amazing instrument, no swell! Beautifully played. I have one little complaint, please use a mic for your recordings, I find it hard to hear your voice and crank the volume then the instrument is much too loud. Well, not really for me, but my neighbours.
Thank you for the amazing demonstration and sharing your gifts of. music.
Paul love more touring with the organ my love. What song are you playing with each stop?
The overture to Rinaldo would sound great on that organ
He missed one, the sound of the keys themselves! I don't play organ, but that would drive me nuts.
What you’re hearing is action noise from the trackers connected to the keys. It’s very strange, when you are sitting in front of it, you don’t really notice them, but if you record with a mic close to the console, it always picks up way more action noise than you actually hear sitting there. I guess it leaks out more to the side than straight up through the keys, but I couldn’t tell you why that would be.
Seeing the stops I immediately thought of Tim Burton.
9:09 What is the last piece called? Maybe self-composed but It just sounds so familiar? It's an adorable little piece, beautifully played 🙂.
@@jesperandersen6201 Its an improvisation on „Now thank we all our God“ 😀😀
I have always preferred the tight sound of a case organ. I used to regularly play a small Baroque voiced 25 stop Casavant that no less than Peter Hurford declared as one of the best North German voiced organs in the world. Just goes to show that you don't 1000 ranks to be great.
Paul, milujete jemnú registratúru ako Marián Varga z Collegium Musicum.
zurück in die Zukunft einer französischen Barock-Orgel...?
okay, das Klappern der Tasten als Feature zu verkaufen (und nicht als Bug) kann mann bei dem wirklich wunderbaren Klang vielleicht noch nachvollziehen...
aber wo war jetzt das Futur (Captain) 😎
Futuristische Grafittischrift-Registerzüge! 😂😂
Whats the name of the piece in the intro?
The first few seconds at the beginning of the video I thought you were playing "he's a pirate" 😅
What about the usage of the Harry Potter font for the logo and on the stops? Is there a particular meaning to this?
Somehow, the organ pipes casing reminds me of Sauron's harness...
What are you playing at the beggining?
Why do I hear my keyboard when you're playing?
Though soft?
(I hammer my keys, you see ... .)
Needs more 1024ᵗʰ register. :P
Die Orgel macht einen guten Eindruck. 🙏🙏
It sounds good on "We 3 Kings of Orient Are"---. (I admit I'm not fond of the ultra modern design of its appearance. No warmth). From Chicago, U.S.A.
Why are the keys so noisy? Surely they shouldn't sound like that. So you have a beautiful sounding organ accompanied by a constant rattling noise from the keyboard. Really? Not very well built if they can't get something like that right.
@@Hifimusicman Naaah, a mechanical organ has to sound like that - it‘s a real action and not some electronic alternative. Since the video is recorded up close the clicking is very prominent - it is inaudible in the church itself. The recording quality is on me, so I‘m happy to take the blame 😀
I've got to agree with @Hifimusicman , even if your microphone is picking up the clatter more than your ear might it's still way more noisy than it needs to be. I've personally built the tracker action of several large organs and there is no need for this level of action noise. Good design, construction and regulation will make action noise inaudible even in a large mechanical chassis. That said, it's a truly astounding organ. I love the sound and the look, the whole thing is great and I'll be looking at more organs by Remy. Thanks for the video, really enjoyed it.
@@TheBellsandwhistlesDiese Orgel ist ein handwerkliches Meisterstück, vollmechanisch und ohne jedweden elektrischen oder elektronischen Schnickschnack. Die Tastaturgeräusche, das leise Rauschen der Windlade, das Surren der Seilzüge, all das gehört dazu. Sie erinnert mich an meine spanische Meistergitarre, die handwerklich in der Tradition des 19.Jahrhundertes gebaut wurde. Keine CNC-Fräse, kein elektronisch gesteuerter Cutter, sondern einfachste Werkzeuge in der Hand eines großen Meisters haben sie geschaffen. Im Ergebnis spricht sie mit mir. Genauso erlebe ich diese Orgel, als wenn sie mit ihrem Spieler spricht. Die Nebengeräusche sind Teil dieses Gesprächs.
@@Zitat-ist-auch-nicht-mehr-das I'm glad you like it, as you rightly say it is a masterpiece by a great craftsman. My comment was simply that it is not necessary to have action noise in a mechanical action. It is common, and if you like that then I have no problem with that. My personal taste (which I'm not trying to convert anyone to) if for silent action if possible so I can hear the beauty of the voicing. I love your idea of a conversation between organ and organist, pipe organs certainly speak to me in ways that electronic instruments don't!
Me gusta que suene así!!! @@PaulFey
Ich find das Ganze toll
The organ sounds wonderful, but that incessant key clacking would drive me nuts.!!!
Die Orgel klingt toll, aber krass, wie laut die Tasten klappern.
😅Am I the only one who feels like the writings of the stop looks like GRAFFITI? 😂
The key action is very clanky. Otherwise the organ it is a very good example of modern construction and French Baroque voicing .
The pipes are lovely, but the keyboards are very noisy… tap, tap, tap!
French organs are always the best 😉
As wonderful as the sounds of this organ, with the exception of the anoying 'clicking' sounds coming from the keyboards, why do organ builders and the organizations that pay for these organs build instruments that fetishize the mechanical difficulties of the past? Why build instruments that make playing the instrument harder than it already is, and needs to be? I know that in the "organ world" there is a turf war still going on between real pipes vs digital, and I like both, but I'm not talking about that battle so much as I am about churches and concert halls building these clunky instruments with nobs, drawbars, mechanical doo-dads etc. which an organist has to work into their routine in order to not make a mess of their playing? Instruments that are almost brand new but unintentionally (intentionally?) made harder to play? What musical Lego Land do these designers and planning committees live in?
You are not dictator of the world people can choose whatever they want
Please be very careful not to cast a polite comment from a renowned performer into an enthusiastc endorsement. This instrument is top heavy, underscaled, poorly voiced, and has inferior (why bother) reed tone. A Gamba shouldn't chiff, and it also shouldn't be so quiet that the sound of the trackers moving drowns out the steady tone of the rank at the console. This emperor is scantily clad, perhaps not naked, but certainly wearing a bathing costume that is lacking adequate modesty.
@@billraty14 Are you sure about that? Which kind of organ style did you grow up with and where are you from? I think this adds much to the equation - I personally think that its a very wonderful approach to a french (pre-) baroque instrument. I feel like it was well balanced, the recording doesnt do it justice.
@@PaulFey I grew up with the sound of the Aeolian-Skinner of the Mormon Tabernacle, which was branded as "American Classic", (a polyglot), to serve musically, but not necessarily authentically, all national schools, but effectively is mostly English after Willis, with additional mutations and adjustments in balancing. Alexander Schreiner was the organist of the SLC Tabernacle during the late 1940s rebuild, and he studied under Louis Vierne at Notre Dame in the early 1930s. The foundation stops of the Great are named "Montre". The reeds are claimed to be "French", but really they're not much different than EM Skinner, and certainly are dissimilar to the Cavaillle-Coll at St Sernin in Toulouse. Flues do quite well on lower wind pressures (3.5-4.5 inches of wind), but romantic reed tone usually requires higher wind pressures for good singing tone (7.5 - 15 inces), which is problematic with mechanical note action. Cavaillle-Coll had the Barker lever to get past that limitation. The Tabernacle at the time of the late 1940s rebuild had electro-pneumatic pitman chests. I haven't heard if Schoenstein changed the wind chests on the Tabernacle when Jack Bethards brillantly rebuilt the instrument in 1988-1989.
@@PaulFey recording an organ is a black art because microphones, even the best, aren't human ears, which are innately spectrum analyzers (cochlea) attached to a neural network.