There was a reason for the Piano-roll editor in early MIDI sequencers... And many early synths had no velocity, so it is kind of the same limitations, giving lind of the same "feeling". Old paper roll that were handcut can have more "live" to them , but if quantized it does sound like MIDI indeed.
This is not a coincidence :) Synthesizers usually are operated by using the MIDI standard. This was already the case in the 80's. MIDI in generally works the exact same way as this barrel organ (=the synthesizer) driven by a piano roll (=the midi file). You can punch any midi file to an old-fashioned piano roll to play it on this barrel organ (and vice-versa to play a piano roll from this organ on a modern synthesizer instead). You could do the effort to build some adapter that feeds midi notes into the roll port of this barrel organ. Then you can play midi files directly on it without punching them to rolls as long as you somehow deal with the limited number of available instruments and their limited octave ranges. So MIDI synthesizers are digital barrel organs :P
Ok so i was going to write some long piece about how wrong you were, but the term Steampunk only came about in the 1980's which surprises considering how much of the works that laid the groundwork for the genre were from the early 19th century. Thank you for causing me to look this up I learned something new.
SoraKirin Well, there were prototypical precursors to Steampunk going all the way to the German film “Metropolis”. Others, like the comedy adventure “The Great Race” could be called a Steampunk version of a vaudeville melodrama. It is more accurate to say the Genre was IDENTIFIED and defined in the 80’s but had, in fact, been very gradually evolving for 60 years.
while its cool, its not like youd have every song and melody on earth lol songs are probably hard to transcribe Im happy with our modern advances in musical technology
@@JT-lk4pk i'm pretty sure i could hit that note with a recorder. Back when i still had one. Played right, a recorder can get high enough to split an eardrum, lol!
Wow this almost made me cry, Because the amount of craftsmanship and the engineering is a true master piece and I hope they perserve this for as long as possible because this is true art
It's like watching a steam locomotive hauling ass on modern rail lines, with modern rolling stock. (Union Pacific still showcases an occasional steam locomotive hauling from time to time.)
Classical Rips don't disrespect the Organ. You bring the studio, to the organ. If you thought, how would you even transport the organ without disassembly?
@@Mr3344555 But its already a travelling show, mounted to a trailer so that it can travel from event to event. You can find recordings of this organ at several different events in the UK.
It's excellent arrangements like this that give me hope that current/future generations will discover, fall in love with, and henceforth carry these instruments forward for others to enjoy. This is awesome!
I love this stuff because this did not exist without a lot of work to create the program for your pipe organ and the use of instruments that are completely different to the source production. .
Not really steampunk but this city I live near dose a steam festival every year at around November. It's the coolest shit! Also yea they have these down there sometimes
@@3bydacreekside The Great Dorset Steam Fair. Every year in England Its a huge event, literally the world series of steam engine preservation. Thousands of preserved machines showcasing the power and materials that made the industrial revolution possible.
Some of the folks in the USA who organize band organ rallies (where these organs are taken out and played by their owners), would love to partner with Steampunk events! I think it's happened at least once or twice in the USA. One of the regular COAA (Carousel Organ Association of America) events is the Soulé Live Steam Festival in Meridian, Mississippi, where they have a band organ rally as part of the steam fest. I don't think it's 'steampunk' per se, but more of a festival of antique steam equipment such as engines etc. I think there are some new builds (steam equipment AND organs) as well. I am the chapter V.P. of the Southern California chapter of AMICA (Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors' Association) and we are hoping to set up some band organ rallies in So Cal for 2020, and would appreciate some suggestions for new venues for events in 2020. Contact me on Facebook (Andrew E. Barrett - either my regular page or my music page for my piano performances). You can find the COAA website here: www.coaa.us/ the COAA event listing here (will be updated for 2020 as soon as they have dates firmed up, but you can look at past 2019 events): www.coaa.us/page21/page-3/index.php the main AMICA website is here: www.amica.org/
One time I went to a steam fair I was standing next to a set of gallopers when the organ suddenly started playing Roar by Katy Perry. It was certainly a surprise, and I can confirm that it sounds infinitely better when played on a fairground organ!
Creeperboy and friends I come from the family who build these organs company j.verbeeck. My granddad build this organ. And i can say you the smiles on their faces when they hear it play. You cant describe it. Now i start to see why he loved this organs so mutch.
LYRICS!!!! We're talking away I don't know what I'm to say I'll say it anyway Today's another day to find you Shying away I'll be coming for your love, okay? Take on me, (take on me) Take me on, (take on me) I'll be gone In a day or two So needless to say I'm odds and ends I'll be stumbling away Slowly learning that life is OK Say after me It's no better to be safe than sorry Take on me, (take on me) Take me on, (take on me) I'll be gone In a day or two (Very long skip) Oh the things that you say Is it live or Just to play my worries away You're all the things I've got to remember You're shying away I'll be coming for you anyway Take on me, (take on me) Take me on, (take on me) I'll be gone In a day I'll be gone (take on me) In a day (take me on, take on me) (Take on me, take on me) (Take me on, take on me) (Take on me)
I find it so fascinating that there were ways to play pianos and organs automatically before the days of MIDI. It also fascinates me that someone made a roll for a song that obviously didn't exist when the organ was originally made. "Take On Me" came out in 1985.
I feel the same way, been fascinated by these things since I was a toddler! There's a chance this song wasn't running off a roll though, these old organs can be converted to play back MIDI tracks - a computer can be wired up to control a load of electrically-operated air valves to simulate the action of the roll going through the keyframe. It's a bit of a cheat I suppose, but it opens up a whole world of musical possibilities!
@@SqueezeboxOfDelights There are some pop songs that were based on classical pieces, but somehow I doubt that a song like this was based on anything written so long ago.
There are machine operated by a keyboard to cut the music books, but it is still a lot of work and one mistake you have to start over. See St Albans mechanical music museum.
Not quite what you would expect from a Verbeeck, but what a spirited performance! That said, I remember the same machines in the 1960s playing covers of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Gerry and the Pacemakers, or music from films, like Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady, The Dam Busters, Oliver and others. I guess as time goes on, the music changes, but the instrument remains the same.
Years ago as kid i was fascinated by an organ being driven by a steam engine. I think it drove a compressor and the lights. The rhythmic sound of the steam engine seem to add to the sound.
Someone needs to make contemporary versions of those sort of machines and take them on the road (the originals are probably a bit to valuable to do that with). Hopefully, if someone digitizes the cards and installs a computer in the new ones, the programmers don't make the computer harder to use than the simple task of loading of the punch card strips. Actually, I had this mental image of a giant pipe organ built to fold up into the trailer of an 18 wheeler. When the concert starts, it unfolds like a transformer and the maestro walks out to much applause and plays a mix of classic and contemporary music. As these videos demonstrate, an organ can be as over the top as any rock band.
These old organs handle 80's synth-pop very nicely.
There was a reason for the Piano-roll editor in early MIDI sequencers... And many early synths had no velocity, so it is kind of the same limitations, giving lind of the same "feeling". Old paper roll that were handcut can have more "live" to them , but if quantized it does sound like MIDI indeed.
Yes, I very much agree!
This is not a coincidence :)
Synthesizers usually are operated by using the MIDI standard. This was already the case in the 80's.
MIDI in generally works the exact same way as this barrel organ (=the synthesizer) driven by a piano roll (=the midi file).
You can punch any midi file to an old-fashioned piano roll to play it on this barrel organ (and vice-versa to play a piano roll from this organ on a modern synthesizer instead).
You could do the effort to build some adapter that feeds midi notes into the roll port of this barrel organ. Then you can play midi files directly on it without punching them to rolls as long as you somehow deal with the limited number of available instruments and their limited octave ranges.
So MIDI synthesizers are digital barrel organs :P
@@Wichtelchen2006 Interesting. Different tech, same result.
Yeah that’s what they were built for.
1980s in my alternative steampunk reality
Mario Cassina I was thinking the same thing!😀😀😀
I guess they started using steam powered organs instead of synthesizers.
Did you know Steampunk was actually made up during the 80s?
Ok so i was going to write some long piece about how wrong you were, but the term Steampunk only came about in the 1980's which surprises considering how much of the works that laid the groundwork for the genre were from the early 19th century. Thank you for causing me to look this up I learned something new.
SoraKirin
Well, there were prototypical precursors to Steampunk going all the way to the German film “Metropolis”. Others, like the comedy adventure “The Great Race” could be called a Steampunk version of a vaudeville melodrama. It is more accurate to say the Genre was IDENTIFIED and defined in the 80’s but had, in fact, been very gradually evolving for 60 years.
Organ covers are so surreal and it's even worse a few drinks in at 1230 am please send help I'm losing my grip on reality
Shee Eeep maybe try
I don't have anything that can help you but you should know you have 69 likes rn
i think this one has similar confusing effects: ruclips.net/video/7Mm6ycEz2A8/видео.html
Same here
It’s even more mind blowing when you’re stoned.
What must these machines have sounded like to people of their time.
Amazing,
We all take iTunes etc. for granted.
I am overwhelmed.
I can't be the only person who'd rather have this and a stack of punch tapes than iTunes
while its cool, its not like youd have every song and melody on earth lol songs are probably hard to transcribe
Im happy with our modern advances in musical technology
I appreciate both the old and new.
boy do i love it when old people go on youtube and complain in the comment section
CamSundae
Even worse is when young people complain about today's world.
Even the organ couldn't hit the high note! It had to play an octave down.
it's only a E5
They hit an E5.
He sings it in falsetto, its an e5 but people who sing it and dont know what they're doing tend to attempt singing it without falsetto.
Seriously one of the flautists at my school was able to hit it I almost got there but nope cant really do it on clarinet as well
@@JT-lk4pk i'm pretty sure i could hit that note with a recorder. Back when i still had one. Played right, a recorder can get high enough to split an eardrum, lol!
Wow this almost made me cry, Because the amount of craftsmanship and the engineering is a true master piece and I hope they perserve this for as long as possible because this is true art
It's like watching a steam locomotive hauling ass on modern rail lines, with modern rolling stock. (Union Pacific still showcases an occasional steam locomotive hauling from time to time.)
Happily, there are people who still make organs like this.
@@RenaissanceEarCandyWhere can I find a manufacturer.
ALL OF MY YES
THIS IS NOW MY NEW RINGTONE
Yeah, made this my morning alarm for a while, spooked me at first, but it's a refreshing way to wake up!
AYYYYYYYY It's Mk
Bring this to a carnival. PERFECT.
Yep Its A Master Piece Of Its Own. 115 Keys Of Awesomeness
It already goes to the Great Dorset Steam Fair in the UK pretty regularly :)
No where near enough modern compilations as GSDF, love it!
Really!?!?
Wow I Never Been To That And I Still Want To Go So Bad!!!
Totally awesome!!!
I loved A-Ha in the 1980s and this arrangement is brilliant! Thank you 👏❤️🏴
Jogging to Take On Me: Victorian Era Edition.
You just have a whole carnival organ tied to you're waist on wheels.
@@Burek_King hilarious to envision that but it would be a great way to work out and entertaining for the whole neighborhood!
Another excuse for why I need a goddamn theatre organ!
how many excuses do you have at this point?
Last one, would be he can't afford it or room for it.
This isn't a theatre organ. It's a fairground concert organ.
Incredible! It'd be awesome if you could drag this into a proper studio and do covers of various popular songs.
Alexey Rom does just that on his channel
I'd buy that album!
I think it would be easier to bring the studio to it.
Classical Rips don't disrespect the Organ. You bring the studio, to the organ. If you thought, how would you even transport the organ without disassembly?
@@Mr3344555 But its already a travelling show, mounted to a trailer so that it can travel from event to event. You can find recordings of this organ at several different events in the UK.
It's excellent arrangements like this that give me hope that current/future generations will discover, fall in love with, and henceforth carry these instruments forward for others to enjoy. This is awesome!
jklingeroo77 I have been trying so hard to convince someone who can have rolls cut to do a Cuphead medley and he just doesn’t get it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@ianbrumfield7664 If you are a musician you can arrange them yourself using software such as "MIDIBoek" etc.
@andrewbarrett1537 you just don't appreciate history. Midi is its own magic. Leave it out of this. Nobody likes a wet blanket.
i think the people of 1800's would be happy to hear this
probably more like 1920's since that was when people started liking fast-paced ragtime but i'm not a historian or anything haha
Probably deem it as sorcery
They'd be amazed....This organ was built in 1984
I'm happy to year this
wow pennywise really gettin lit in those sewers huh
D Strides I hate you for how much you made me laugh lol
lmao I imagine seeing this now. XD
"HIYA GEORGY"
YOU'LL FLOAT IN A DAY OR TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I will might cleaning the pipes for spiders. =D
Glad that the RUclips recommendations brought me here!
If your grandchildren in the future ever ask what good music was like, show them this
Before it even gain popularity among the memers of the internet.
Nice.
*_n o i c e_*
I imagine people in 1918 dancing in a restrained way. (After all, there was a war on.)
internationalicon thanks for that image
Take On Jerry
I like to feel they are celebrating the ending of the war.
1918 was the end of WW1
and the Spanish flu
One of my all time favorite 80s songs translated into a masterpiece. My cockatiel and love it!
Thanks RUclips for recommending this to me
I love this stuff because this did not exist without a lot of work to create the program for your pipe organ and the use of instruments that are completely different to the source production. .
This sounds really good. A glowing tribute to both composers and instrument. The arrangement is wonderful
Is there a German word that means "Nostalgia for something that one is too young to remember"?
There's a Welsh word that literally means longing, but I'd often taken to mean nostalgia for a lost/false time: hireath. Is this close enough?
German? No, but there is an English word: anemoia. Check out the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows on youtube and at www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/
Sehnsucht nach der Vergangenheit
Liegmaknutzendich
Not the Centenary Organ song we deserved, but the one we needed.
Great recording!
Great to hear an organ playing contemporary music.
This song along with Toto's Africa would be good played on a freakin' kazoo, so of course this is great.
just love the sound of these organs,for 60 years wow,tingles down my spine,even at 64,
Anytime this song plays, no matter the version, I'm dancing
This is one of the rolls that takes full advantage of the range these monster organs have, and it shows.
Wonder if any steampunk events use these machines?
Not really steampunk but this city I live near dose a steam festival every year at around November. It's the coolest shit! Also yea they have these down there sometimes
Where???
Garrett Powell
England most likely
@@3bydacreekside The Great Dorset Steam Fair. Every year in England Its a huge event, literally the world series of steam engine preservation. Thousands of preserved machines showcasing the power and materials that made the industrial revolution possible.
Some of the folks in the USA who organize band organ rallies (where these organs are taken out and played by their owners),
would love to partner with Steampunk events! I think it's happened at least once or twice in the USA.
One of the regular COAA (Carousel Organ Association of America) events
is the Soulé Live Steam Festival in Meridian, Mississippi, where they have a band organ rally as part of the steam fest.
I don't think it's 'steampunk' per se, but more of a festival of antique steam equipment such as engines etc.
I think there are some new builds (steam equipment AND organs) as well.
I am the chapter V.P. of the Southern California chapter of AMICA (Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors' Association)
and we are hoping to set up some band organ rallies in So Cal for 2020,
and would appreciate some suggestions for new venues for events in 2020.
Contact me on Facebook (Andrew E. Barrett - either my regular page or my music page for my piano performances).
You can find the COAA website here:
www.coaa.us/
the COAA event listing here (will be updated for 2020 as soon as they have dates firmed up, but you can look at past 2019 events): www.coaa.us/page21/page-3/index.php
the main AMICA website is here:
www.amica.org/
This is makes me so obscenely happy, EVERY, TIME. Thank you so much. I am crying the best of crys.
Its a dream of mine to see one of these playing a modern song like this in real life.
Then go to a steam rally!
One time I went to a steam fair I was standing next to a set of gallopers when the organ suddenly started playing Roar by Katy Perry. It was certainly a surprise, and I can confirm that it sounds infinitely better when played on a fairground organ!
imagine how the creators of the organ would react
Creeperboy They made the whole organ? Should they be surprised of something? “Yay our organ works”
Creeperboy and friends I come from the family who build these organs company j.verbeeck. My granddad build this organ. And i can say you the smiles on their faces when they hear it play. You cant describe it. Now i start to see why he loved this organs so mutch.
Making me smile! Thank you.
I don't even asked to youtube but that's one of the best videos i've ever seen, now i'm a complete man for now
That was brilliant. It really translates well.
LYRICS!!!!
We're talking away
I don't know what
I'm to say I'll say it anyway
Today's another day to find you
Shying away
I'll be coming for your love, okay?
Take on me, (take on me)
Take me on, (take on me)
I'll be gone
In a day or two
So needless to say
I'm odds and ends
I'll be stumbling away
Slowly learning that life is OK
Say after me
It's no better to be safe than sorry
Take on me, (take on me)
Take me on, (take on me)
I'll be gone
In a day or two
(Very long skip)
Oh the things that you say
Is it live or
Just to play my worries away
You're all the things I've got to remember
You're shying away
I'll be coming for you anyway
Take on me, (take on me)
Take me on, (take on me)
I'll be gone
In a day
I'll be gone (take on me)
In a day (take me on, take on me)
(Take on me, take on me)
(Take me on, take on me)
(Take on me)
I mine diamonds is all I can think about
No
Awesomeness. Take on me by A-Ha, excellent 80s track.
I'd go to church every single day if they were playing this.
Better than the original!!!!!!!
This is strangely beautiful.
This is every guy’s song that plays in their head when they finally meet their RUclips crush.
this is the best thing I've ever heard. an 80s song played on an anciant organ.
It's an 80s organ, built in 1984.
This works so well - absolutely love it. Shows the fantastic versatility of these organs.
M I N I N G A W A Y
I N T H I S M I N E C R A F T D A Y S O B E A U T I F U L
M I N E D I A M O N D S
Boy Einstein this is the federal meme association, I'm confiscating that meme because it's expired
Johnathan keyboard YOU WILL PRY THIS MEME FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS
that can be arranged
How has this video not had MORE views?
Organs are legendary instruments and have such a wonderful sound
I am totally flashing back to the 80's.... the 1880's!
This is brilliant, one of the best.
This video makes me happy :)))
imagine this
you're in a haunted church with an organ like this
and all of a sudden this starts playing
Why doesn't this have more views?
Why do I love this so much?
I find it so fascinating that there were ways to play pianos and organs automatically before the days of MIDI. It also fascinates me that someone made a roll for a song that obviously didn't exist when the organ was originally made. "Take On Me" came out in 1985.
I feel the same way, been fascinated by these things since I was a toddler! There's a chance this song wasn't running off a roll though, these old organs can be converted to play back MIDI tracks - a computer can be wired up to control a load of electrically-operated air valves to simulate the action of the roll going through the keyframe. It's a bit of a cheat I suppose, but it opens up a whole world of musical possibilities!
Plot twist: the cardboard book this organ is playing was punched back in the 1910s, and A-ha copied the tune because they liked it so much...
@@SqueezeboxOfDelights There are some pop songs that were based on classical pieces, but somehow I doubt that a song like this was based on anything written so long ago.
@@jeopardy60611 I was only joking :)
There are machine operated by a keyboard to cut the music books, but it is still a lot of work and one mistake you have to start over. See St Albans mechanical music museum.
The accompaniment was amazing! This organ is a badass!!!
Thank you so much. Just wonderful to hear.
Simply divine.
Amazing and fantastic. Thanks for this.
Suddenly have an overwhelming desire to play some Rollercoaster Tycoon 1&2
...And the organ became so radical that it transcended in to an alternate dimension
I love this
This could have played in the background of bioshock infinite
all of my yes to that, I want this so badly now as an easteregg! XD
I literally commented about BSI here about 3 minutes ago, finally someone who gets it
Why am I just getting this as a recommendation in 2020, over a decade after it was posted?
good ass music that’s why
BRAVO!!!! THAT WAS WONDERFUL!!!
I love that sound :) .
Not quite what you would expect from a Verbeeck, but what a spirited performance!
That said, I remember the same machines in the 1960s playing covers of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Gerry and the Pacemakers, or music from films, like Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady, The Dam Busters, Oliver and others.
I guess as time goes on, the music changes, but the instrument remains the same.
Oh my that's amazing wow 👌👌
Years ago as kid i was fascinated by an organ being driven by a steam engine. I think it drove a compressor and the lights. The rhythmic sound of the steam engine seem to add to the sound.
Ganz, ganz großartig: Brilliant! Tolles Tempo! Please more! :D
I would totally go back to 1910 and play this
Another crossover hit to play at the street fair, cool.
Magnifique Travail 👏👍
Welcome, quarantiners. Recommends are kind to us today it seems.
Hope you're all staying safe.
Why is this in my recommended, RUclips?: Part 546
Why wasn't this in my recommended earlier, RUclips?: Part 1
This is so beautiful.
What a beautiful instrument!
Play it at 0.75 speed
Grenoshi HAHAHAHAHAHA
why?
No.
*plays it at 0.25 speed*
play it at 2x speed.
yet another time recommendations showed me something good
awesome.
Jaw dropping 😱
Superb instrument!
Sort of thing I'd expect in Bioshock Infinite
Someone needs to make contemporary versions of those sort of machines and take them on the road (the originals are probably a bit to valuable to do that with). Hopefully, if someone digitizes the cards and installs a computer in the new ones, the programmers don't make the computer harder to use than the simple task of loading of the punch card strips. Actually, I had this mental image of a giant pipe organ built to fold up into the trailer of an 18 wheeler. When the concert starts, it unfolds like a transformer and the maestro walks out to much applause and plays a mix of classic and contemporary music. As these videos demonstrate, an organ can be as over the top as any rock band.
Fun fact, this Organ in particular is housed inside of a trailer which can be hauled by a truck
STUPENDOUS!!!
This is very enjoyable creepy😊
amazing!
Amazing.
This sounds like it belongs in a carnival! Awesome!
Funtastic!
Your not just an organ, your the entire orchestra
I’m upset that I can’t hit the like button twice
Amazing
Outstanding!
That's great man! Please more.
kinda scary looking
Sounds awesome tho!
my favorite beach boys song
Ancient organs playing classic rock is my newest bop
All this & before computers ect too.
Woha! Beautiful!