What a brilliant demonstration.I remember seeing the flooded church and amazingly Fisk has repaired it!

That Fisk fellow knows what he is doing. Fantastic instrument. Very nice demonstration too! The stop tablets and their location is my favorite set-up because it is so easy to make changes on the fly without using pistons.

Great to hear the restored organ.

Wonderful sounds from this pretty instrument. Your demonstrations themselves are works of art. Köszönöm, Bálint!

Stunning "sacrilegious" improvisation with the pedal Cremona! Phenomenal demo... what a versatile 2 manual instrument.

Bálint köszönet ezért a részletes hangszer bemutatóért, nagyon szépek az új regiszterek, és az egész orgona, gratulálok, és sok-sok értékes zenét kívánok hozzá.

Another great demonstration of stops...I always enjoy hearing Balint!

Such a lovely organ, the case is very funky too, I like it :)

An absolutely magnificent 2-manual organ where every stop is beautiful in its own right and every stop contributes to a plenum which fills the building without becoming uncomfortably loud. The REEDS are warm and restrained but still do their jobs to perfection. On top of all that the case and console are, again, «restrained» but absolutely elegant like a Chanel suit! I'm not fond of stop TABS but in this case they're so elegantly done I'd «suffer» them just to have such a beautiful instrument. High kudos to FISK! Also... many thanks to Balint Karosi for his choice of OLD 124th as his demo piece and for demonstrating the beauty of the instrument so well.

Amazing! Thank you so much!

This reimagined organ is an absolute triumph! Congrats, Bálint!

Great Organ! Klais Organs from Bonn, Germany, my hometown, are simply the best!

eine ehrliche Orgel mit ehrlichen Registern, die sich gut miteinander mischen. Sehr gute Arbeit des Orgelbauers und phantastisch gespielt von einem hervorragendem Organist. Was will man mehr. Chapeau !!!

Loved this demo! The kind of playing with the celeste and pedal cremona at 31:16 (and that you also put at the beginning of the video) isn't the sort of thing I expected to hear at this demo, but it was gorgeous!

A stunning instrument superbly demonstrated. Respect❤

What a great Instrument! 😊 Thank your dear Organ master Mr. Karosi!! Greetings from Austria! 🇦🇹

Thanks so much for this excellent demo-! When I visited NYC, I was only able to look in through the glass and lust at the magnificent case. The Gamba - is absolutely beautiful!

Thank you. I hope to see you play in person some day.

I love this instrument, One of the best you've done. Size doesn't mater, it what you do with it that counts.

What a beautiful sounding machine, introduced in your wonderful, inimitable style. Bravo.

An interesting organ in what appears to be a visually very pleasing modern space. Essentially a modern German romantic organ with a few baroque stops thrown in to add versatility. But by far the biggest success is the Kellner temperament, an extremely wise choice, beautiful sounding and so much more successful than some of the other so-called “Bach” temperaments. Suitable for all styles, keys and periods of music contrary to popular thought. Congratulations to whoever chose this tuning. If only it was used on the modern piano more often!

From a disastrous flood comes a sparkling legacy. (Gratulálok!)

Some amazing sounds Balint. Congratulations on a beautiful instrument.

What a great little organ, in the land of giants! 😁 I want to hear it in person, but your demo is wonderful, as always. Thank you!

It's good to hear another organ demonstration. I have missed them.I hope the next ones are not so long in coming.

Thank you Balint for another wonderful demonstration of a fine sounding and versatile organ which, to me, seems to be just the right size.

C.B. Fisk does such nice work! Well done, as usual, good sir!

Bravo to all involved in this project! There is so much music in the pipework of that organ and it is wonderful to see and hear such a marvelously done restoration and renovation. May it be a model for other organs of this era. Thanks for the video!

Wonderful demonstration of the rebuilt Klais. The mixture on the Great does indeed sound better with out the 2' super octave. The Scharf is gorgeous. Very enjoyable to hear this instrument rebuilt and back in playing condition. Thank you Balint !

Truly one of the best-sounding organs I've heard in some time. Thanks for the demonstration.

Zeneileg képzetlen, hangszerekhez hozzá nem értő, de lelkes régizene hallgató vagyok, akit ez az orgona és ez a bemutató teljesen lenyűgözött! Köszönöm a föltöltést!

WOW, played this instrument when I was much younger, and it was nice but this is MUCH better! I also really like the improvement in acoustics (nice reverb time). BRAVO, FISK!!

You are without peer in this type of endeavor. And you are a brilliant improviser. Bravo!

This was THE BEST demonstration of stops on an organ I’ve heard. None of this 4 or 5 measures stuff, but longer selections played with appropriate music.

Stunning instrument and even more stunning demonstration! Thank you very much!

Bon anniversaire monsieur Valentin!

Having seen the video you made after St. Peter's Church was flooded by the watermain break, how the solemn mood of that video contrasts with the glory of your presenting this Fisk rebuild of the Klais organ. Clearly everyone pitched in, determined not to let that disastrous flood put an end to St. Peter's mission as a Manhattan church. Balint, were you hired to be a consultant with Fisk on how the organ should be rebuilt? You must have been delighted when Fisk was chosen to rebuild and add its own pipework to this organ; the finished result is truly magnificent! I was hoping you would return to St. Peter's to give a demonstration - I've greatly enjoyed it.

Félicitations Balint! Éblouissant ❤

An intriguing instrument despite its limiting size. I really enjoyed this presentation and could listen to the beautiful improvised versettes forever! When do some of them be some available in sheet music format?

This specification style is what I am very familiar with our Johannus INC digital organs, every for small chapels. But more on the romantic side.

Very nice!

Hans uit Zwolle luistert met aandacht klinkt mooi

The acoustic sounds pretty much ideal. There’s a warm halo around the sound, but everything is crystal-clear and articulate.

I find it very interesting that Klais organs were quite popular in the USA for a while. It's a company from Germany. But I find it astonishing that these organs are not renewed by the same company. The new Klais generation also has a different sound philosophy than that of the 1970s.

Köszönjük❤

That pedal Cremona 🤤

Congratulations with your renovated and newly intonated organ. It now has an inspiring sound in many ways. Only the new principal 8 do not convince me yet. Balance between base tone and harmonics and a piece of unrest in the start of the tone, I think, needs still some attention.

I believe you are the resident doctorate organist here... 😊

is it tuned equally? This organ has some interesting ideas with some interesting implementations. I would be lying if I say I would do everything exactly the same. But hearing some thoughts out of the box here is very inspiring.

Incredible! Would you use Quintadehn 8' on its own, or do you always couple it with another 8' stop?

Obviously the organ is well built and rebuilt but my personal opinion is that it is very scratchy and too hard high pitch. It needs more middle sounds more 8 foot ranks otherwise its very hard on the ears.

P r o m o s m

the organ design itself is quite uninspired

Too bad that, after restoration, it's still the ugliest-sounding organ in New York City.