50K should be the Carillon de Westminster

My father Saxon Aldred, who is a retired organ builder now aged 88 years loves your programs as he call them.👍👍

I love the explanation of the stops and how they blend together. It’s a lovely lesson in creating registrations. Sort of like a chef mixing flavours. This particular instrument has a lovely blend of sound.

This, this is what I enjoy. An organist who knows his/her organ and can go through all the sounds that merge and blend nicely together to create any sound or mood. 20,000 stops forget it. Give me 15 that do what I want and i'll beat your 20,000 that no one really knows how to use other than loud.

6:38 "It's technically summer over here... it's 22°(C) outside..." Cute. Very cute. It technically winter here in South Africa, and today was a frigid 24°C outside.

A lovely little organ. I wish I had this in my condo, but it would have to overflow to my neighbors, who wouldn't appreciate it...

I'm an organist from the UK, and used to visit Germany regularly. As a teenager and student I was lucky to have an 'organ-geek' friend there who would take me to various churches, some local, some not so local, in order to deputise for him. He got a day off; I had brilliant fun. I loved how the congregation (our audience) would patiently and appreciatively listen to the postlude. And the coffee and biscuits gossip sessions after service, something people might think quite 'British'! I was shocked and delighted at the variety of instruments. You are uniquely qualified to imagine the challenges. This brings back wonderful memories, and a chance for me to discover interesting gems all over again. This channel brings so much to different kinds of people, but it really fills me with a unique joy. Thank you Fraser & Co.

I recently played a small pipe organ (probably about twice the size of this one) and it was clear that it hadn't been played for a while. To name a few examples, only about half of the notes of the 8' Principal on the Great actually worked, several notes in the 16' Subass on the pedal just sounded like air coming through, and it was the most fun I've ever had playing a pipe organ. Furthermore, the pastor of the church offered to let me play during any of the services, although I have a job in the service at _my_ church and I doubt my ability to play in front of a large number of people by myself right now.

WE MISSED YOU FASER!!! I think I speak for a lot of people. Thank you, thank you, thank you for being back. Love your videos ❤️🎶🇿🇦

You think this organ is a little one? I just have one manual, 2 pedal-stops and 6 manual stops... does size really matter? Yes 😂

For the 50K mark, can you play Widor's Toccata? Possibly the finest piece of organ music ever. And what about playing it on the organ in Cologne Cathedral? Love the channel

The king is back! Glad you guys feel better! Maybe at 50k u could play the Widor Toccata from Symphony No.5 in F major.

I love the piece at the end! I'm also a fan of the theatre organ and this piece had that flair.

Glad to see you back Fraser! I’m a self taught organist. This video helps me a lot on the proper use of the stops. I mean which ones to use to accompany a choir and which ones to use when playing a solo piece. Thank you!

You mentioned that it gets a bit tight during services. I sing at the Cathedral in Springfield, MA. It gets VERY tight up in the loft because, like the loft you're at here (I assume), it was built for the organ, some other instruments, and maybe a couple voices. For that reason, it's considered an organ loft, as opposed to a choir loft. It gets so hot, we had to have small fans installed through the gaps in the pipes. Glad to see you're feeling well, again! For 50,000 you should play the Lemmens Fanfare.

i like how u made a standard church organ sound like a theater organ

Absolutely love your style of playing, and with the new mics it’s much more satisfying to listen. Best wishes from the state of Missouri in the U.S.

Welcome back Fraser we have all missed you and of course Glad to have your back. Its been a fantastic day here weather wise England just won the crocket world cup which I know as a Scotsman might not be happy news for you. Love the acoustic here. Interesting to here about why the G is so important and the point you made about the heating. I wont say anymore just enjoy what your doing

Good to see you back. I was worried that something awful had happened to you just when things were progressing so well.

So happy to hear you are both back in good health!

Hi I'm grade 7 in piano and am 12 years old and live in Inverness, where you started and I want to start organ in that cathedral and I was wondering how to get started

Very interesting to see this 'little' organ prancing at your command. I have a ton of suggestions for 50K, but honestly I cannot think of *anything you would play that wouldn't be enchanting* , so I leave the decision entirely to you. Danke schön!

Absolutely that last jazzy bit (on a pipe organ)... thanks for making my day!!

Fraser, a second comment. While my computer is connected to a good amp/speaker set-up, I downloaded this and played it in my home cinema. This way, we were effectively in the church, surrounded by the great acoustic, and really hearing the benefit of those microphones! But my main purpose here is to say a friend who is totally ignorant about organs was with me. He was totally entranced by all he saw and heard─including your dazzling playing (and personality), it left him very keen for more. I was immediately put in mind of a comment not very long ago that interest in pipe-organs and organ music is dying─clearly not while people like you are around! (As the growth in your viewer & subscriber numbers continues to attest so well). Can't wait for the 50k!

So glad you’re back....and both feeling better. Thanks for your beautiful videos.

Lovely work Fraser - great to have a passionate, knowledgable organist on youtube!

Would love to hear you play The Symphony for Organ No. 5 in F minor, Op. 42, No. 1 by Charles-Marie Widor for the 50 000 subscriber mark. And it's great to have you back😄

Very cute video, glad you are both okay, I actually knew that because I have already watch some August videos, ahem! :-) Anyway, what amazing little organ! The Church acoustics is absolutely fantastic for such a relatively small place, they really knew how to make holy spaces back then! And, as some others have commented, I love that you treat the organ as the complete and powerful and versatile instrument it is, not a sacred, mythical thing you can only touch with a ten feet pole. Sacred music is okay, here in Spain we have a lot of that as well, so I'm not stranger to it, not to choruses, which are amazing, like small, organic pipe organs able to produce so many sounds! Two mixed voices, in particular, have my respect, but in reality any choir is truly difficult to perform in and to direct, so kudos to you and your people! As for the 50,000 subscribers, which I am sure you will get, while everybody is giving amazing proposals, with grandious organs performances, I really love and appreciate a piece I first listened to in piano and learned to appreciate (and started to learn to play to, as is decievingly "simple"!!! as they go, LOL) is Bach's "Little fugue in G minor". I think it's so simple and, at the same time, so ... it has that Bach quality only Bach can give... those fugues... argh! It's... devilish alluring! Like the sirens calling to Odiseus... Come, come, play me... And I try, and... LOL.. Well, as I say, maybe repeating Bach is too much, but Tocatta & Fugue in d minor" is a classic, people is crazy (it's amazing, of course, I first lienested to it in the 20,000 Leagues under the Sea 1956 or'64 or something movie, when Capt. Nemo plays it while the Nautilus goes under storms and ices caps...); but this is different, not so known and beautiful, you won't need 10 years to re-learning it and I know you will enjoy it as mush as we will.. Eh? Eh? ;-) LOL. Anyway. Thanks for a very different, very interesting and pretty unique channel. Keep it up! N.B. wondering about your kilt tartan pattern... Do you belong into a particular clann? I would tell you the clann of my kilt (I am not a member of the clann, though), but I rather not clash into any centuries feud by chance, lol. Best regards!

Could do an organ duet - dueling organs? Maybe with someone famous.

Two other fine choices and personal favorites are Little Fugue in G-Moll and Lemare's transcription of Saint-Saens' Danse Macabre if you're in for a large challenge. Maybe that's 100k stuff. Just one more thought: arrange John William's ET for organ. I've fooled with it and there's lots of potential. The dynamics and registration changes are made for clever creativity. Hector Olivera uses it as a Roland Atellier encore.

Love your channel, good to see you back!

Hi Frazer, I do not play the pipe organ , but am a great appreciator of it, and think that it is the greatest musical instrument ever devised from the genius of the human mind, and the only thing that can equal that, in my estimation, are the folks (like yourself) who can make it sing for us. I think the modest organ you present in this video, is a very beautiful pipe organ, and very suitable for the space that it's in. I loved the piece of music you played on it at the end, which it presented very well. I know this will anger some organ purists, but I think the pipe organ is so much more versatile as a musical instrument, then to just confine it to Bach, and a few other such notables of the organ. As far as the physical size of the organ goes, I used to be one of those folks that thought, the more pipes the better. But as my ear has become over time, better tuned, I no longer think that way. There can be (to much) organ for a small space, and similarly (not enough) organ for a large space, and I have heard both. What I really appreciate now, is a thoughtfully designed instrument that has the necessary stops to whisper quietly and melodically, and also to thrill us with it's grandeur, majesty and power, and it does not require an organ with 150 stops to do that. I would even say that I think a to large instrument can obscure the different divisions of the organ, to where their beauty is lost in the volume of sound. I think a well balanced instrument that perfumes the air softly, and continues to build to blazing splendour while not losing the definition of each of it divisions is a winner every time. Just an opinion. Sure do appreciate the various organs that you take us through physically and musically. All the best to you.

Fraser, I have only just recently "discovered" you. Thank you so much for sharing you musicality and sense of fun. Made my day! All the way across the world in Tasmania.

Another awesome video! Amazing quality content all the time and I love your style of playing. Simply fantastic, cheers!

OMG, Fraser!! How I’ve missed you!!💕 so sorry you & the Missus were ill. Not such a tiny church, though... quite a nice size!! Love the color-coded stops. Thank you for this delightful video.... and yes, size does matter: the best in everything comes in small packages!😊🌺💕🌷🎶

*20k subscribers! Congratulations ❤️*

Fraser, so glad to have you back, and sorry to hear of the travails you both have suffered ─ protracted and most unpleasant.. This organ is a delight with a very clever disposition of stops. When you say it's all you need, you are referring to an average parish church I guess and not to a larger church or cathedral where more ambitious repertoire is explored. I see in the suggestions frequent mention of the popular warhorse works (not intended to be disparaging of some wonderful music), but I have a suggestion that is less well-known but has the mood/style of many of the suggestions and that is the "Toccata on Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" by Wilhelm Middelschulte, a great display piece and within the realm of the more famous Toccatas suggested. [Sheet music can be downloaded at imslp.org/wiki/Category:For_organ#fcfrom:T ] I'm wondering at the popular Bach work played in several organs. Sounds fun, but wonder at musical worth. Still, no reason why fun should not prevail, organ music is so often hide-bound and starchy and in being so deters many potential listeners. Your work on this channel happily reverses that trend. Two other asides: the correct term is Celsius, not Centigrade, that changed decades ago (OK, so I'm pedantic!); and 22°C in summer may be warm for you, for me that's a warm day in winter (which I'm still waiting for this winter!) ─ greetings from Melbourne, Australia.

Nice to see you back in good health. Nice church !

Hello fraser, good to see you back in good health, recently subscribed, and loving your flamboyant approach of it all. i see some pretty obvious suggestions for the 50K subs , ( in 3 months ) , like widor and Boelmann and such, so let;s add another one :) karg ellert, Festliche Musik alla Handel ... and of course played at a bombastic organ like the one you played at wiesbaden

Great stuff. I'm a new subscriber, and although not an organist, I hugely enjoy learning stuff about organs. I've come away from every video so far with a feeling of "I didn't even know that I didn't know what I just learned." Thanks for that! What I would like to hear you play for the 50,000 subscriber milestone would be the Sinfonia from the Cantata "Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir", BWV 29. It was one of the great showpieces of the first Switched-on-Bach album. Originally it with other instruments but it can also be incredible on a large organ alone. I don't really care if you play the Dupré transcription or any other arrangement.

Dear Fraser, you are not only a great musician with a great knowledge of your instruments and music, but also a pleasant storyteller. Keep doing this, I am always looking forward to your new videos. I love this way of promoting the King of the instruments.

So glad to hear that you and your Mrs are doing much better. We have missed you!

Absolutely loved the jazz bit. At times it comes close to the classic Wurlitzer theater organ sound. For 50,000: Johnathan Scott's adaptation of the Finale of Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony on the biggest organ you can find. 👍 👍 👍

Glad to see you back. Thanks for a very interesting video. It's a beautiful instrument with a lovely sound.

I think, when I will design an organ, i put 60 or 70 stops with trumpets, chamades and military trumpet (in brass), tuba magma and with 16ft, 32ft and 64ft trumpet, bombardes and wood pipe (if is possible). Beacuse I love the biggest ogan lol :)

Lovely sounds, thank you for posting. It'd be nice to hear you play there with your choir one day. 👍

Great to see you back Fraser. I love this channel and your presenting style. It's great for me as a Trumpet Players as it's well know we can only cope with 3 buttons lol.

Nice little organ!! The clarinets and flutes are beautiful. Welcome back also!

Really glad you are both well again. Missed you, Fraser! As for the fifty thousand mark, what about Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor or Widor's toccata, if you prefer to stick with toccatas? :) However, Widor's toccata is a crazily complicated thing, I'm sure you know it. Anyway, thanks for your videos and please keep going!

So glad you and Frau Gartshore have mended! Thank you for this tour of this little, beautifully voiced powerhouse.

What a cracking little organ!! Beautiful tone. Love the chiffy flutes! I can think of many priests who would die of apoplexy if they heard "that" music in "their" church lol. As for the roller crescendo I can only think of it as an ex organ builder in its German terms as we know it in England as a "Roller schwell" not sure I have spelt it properly. As for a piece of music, well I know most of your viewers will probably go fora Bach piece, but I love French Romantic organ music, so I go for anything of your choice from Louis Vierne.

Can't help but keep listening to the tune at the end- it's lovely! I'd seriously love to have some sheet music of this to try play myself. It's just so joyful to listen to.

This is such a beautiful sounding organ. I love the choice of voices presented. Your finale piece was just perfect. Love the old time carnival type melody. These stops fit that music well. I really enjoyed this organ so much. Thank you for high-lighting this wonderful instrument.

I am pleased to see you back, perhaps it is not organ music but my second most favorite piece (Bach's Fugue is my favorite) is Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1, B-flat minor. As I said, may not be something for an organ...

For 50K you should play Grand Choeur Dialogué on two organs

Glad to you hear and see you on the pipes again, I’d love to hear the occasional modern tune on one of these organs,maybe tubular bells ?

Glad to see you're back. Like your channel and the casual vibe of how you present things. Though, from the title, not gonna lie. I was fully expecting you to talk about finger size and how that affects playing style, not the size of the room and the organ itself :) As for 50k. Have you seen that episode of The Simpsons where Bart hands out the sheet music to Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, and the organist faints at the end of playing it? Always loved that gag, and the song actually sounds pretty good on an Organ :) Though, Phantom of The Opera is probably the most "iconic" out of the ones I've seen in the comments so far.

Pweh Fraser, Glad to have you back! You made me worried what the heck was the matter, waiting for a mail to know you was posting again. Anyway nice to hear all is well now :)

Great tour of this more than modest instrument! And a BRILLIANT bit of fun playing! Cheers!

Loved the jazzy organ piece at the end! That was fantastic. And your explanation how less can be more was fantastic. Maybe for 50,000 subscribers you can play something grand .. like Elgar 'Imperial March' ... or something similar.

Hi Fraser, it's wonderfull, to hear (and see) from you (and your wife of course !) again. Passed the sickness-PingPong finally ? That's great. Nice and beautifull church, and organ of course, sounds wonderfull. Well done, as ever, this video, thanks a lot for your work !!!

Glad you're back!! Good video too!

50k vote here is for Meyerbeers Coronation March. A good piece to explore the difference acoustics play in setting staccato timing in various halls. The mighty myte organ's acoustical feedback is quite excellent - in an empty church.

I gave this video a thumbs up. I live on the West Coast United States, where there's still a share of theater pipe organs around as well as all the other kinds. And all the ones I liked the best by far happened to only have 2 manuals. So, I can relate to this vid. I saw in one video demonstrating a theater organ at the Weinberg Center someone in Maryland, on the East Coast of the U.S.A. That one also just had 2 manuals. And one of the 3 guys in that vid. demonstrated that theater organ being able to simulate a church organ, showing how the theater organs can do a whole lot more. And if I understand correctly, even the largest church organs can have multiple manuals and even still not be able to do what a theater organ can do, maybe even a theater organ with only 2 manuals. Jazz stuff is probably the biggest difference. There's a lot I'd have to say about this. But the bottom line here is that the ones I've seen with just 2 manuals have still had a total of 1,000+/- pipes and all the bells & whistles that one could ask for. I'm not an organist myself, I have too many other hobbies. But if I was ever to try and get one (finances and room permitting), 2 manual ones with maybe few ranks is all I'd be interested in, no interest in even 3 manuals. And I've talked to 1 guy who is a theater organist in my home state of Washington and has preferred 3 manuals over just 2, but said 4 manuals is ridiculous and shook his head while saying how there's ones out there with as many as 5.

I would love to hear you play Bach’s Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, famously used (in part) during the christening scene from the Godfather.

That Sir was excellent. I do not play and you lose me in the technical stuff but I enjoy the organ know how. I really loved the piece you played at the end. That organ sounds amazing to me and reminded me of a big theatre Wurlitzer. Thank you and good to hear you are both healthy again.👍👍

When you do your toccata on “various organs”, you should to a behind the scenes video

Nice little organ! One thing that could make it better would be a 16' extension to the Trompete rank for the Pedal. For 50,000 subscribers, you should play something really bombastic on a large organ, maybe at Koln Cathedral.

Great to see you back 😁. Cant wait for that toccata in D minor

I love everything you teach and everything you play and that piece at the end was so much fun! Great little organ. For your 50K how about Saint-Saens Organ Symphony arranged for solo organ? 🙂

One can never wait to long for something good! - i will follow closely ;) and now, headphones on! - greets, Levi from Finland (very nice jazzy tune!)

Wonderful piece at 23: 55 - difficult not to laugh and cry ...

Most interesting video, Fraser. On the subject of 'general crescendo' pedals. I had to play a small 1 manual and pedal pipe organ for a friend's daughter's wedding many years ago Just the ubiquitous 16' Bourdon on the pedal and about six speaking stops on the manual. That instrument was fitted with a general crescendo pedal. Very unexpected and rather strange. Listening to your closing piece reminded me that cinema/theatre organs were routinely fitted with general crescendo pedals - and very useful they could be too, for that type of music. Excellent playing, if may say so. Best wishes as always, Peter A

My dad loved pipe organs all his life. Our church never had one until recently and he would be in heaven if he had not already been there (now). He would get a kick out your videos. Seeing these different organs makes me feel my dad is watching with me.

For the 50k -> Toccata - Leon Boellmann

I’m sure it’s probably already been said but I would love to see you play the gigout toccata. Absolutely love that love and there are only a few good videos of it

Fraser, absolutely excellent! Widor's Toccata for 50K would be such a treat to watch you play! (Working on it myself in Rome, Italy).

My home Parish has 9 stops, no reeds, and because it's in Wisconsin, is never in tune because our weather ranges from "hot and humid" to "it's too cold for snow to form".

Glad to hear you both are fine again.

We've been worried about you! Glad you're better!

So glad you're back and feeling better. Two questions: who was the organ-builder? And could you please give the *actual stop names* rather than "Here's a flute" etc.? Merci beaucoup. 👍 ❤️

Welcome back Fraser. Another fab video.

Very cute little organ, thank you, glad your Family is well. Missed you.

Your English heritage has not been lost. You called your wife the 'missus' , wonderful !

Glad to see you back and hope the lurgy stays away. I was getting paranoid as I had only just subscribed and you disappeared. Phew. 50,000 subs? Widor's Toccata played in the biggest cathedral in Germany.

I came down with the same thing over the last two weeks, I feel your pain. Great organ, no matter the size they are always wonderful!

Nice, to see you are back!

Im not an organist so I don't know about difficulties and how long pieces take to learn but I would love to hear Bach's BWV 538 (its one of my favourites). Great to hear that you are back and are both well. :)

You have that big band jazz sound lol love it! DOES size matter? Well kind of a loaded question you factor in where your placing your organ, how big a in this case church, but also take into account how big your space is you have the organ in how much room do you have, your accustics, structural stability (how much weight the organ loft can handle). You have shown how a small organ can have a big sound. So does size matter.... well.... yes and no lol.

I’d like to hear you tackle the mighty Wurlitzer some time !

50.000 ? I'd die for that momentum finding a whole concert of your's here at yt ;)

Hello Fraser I hope you are well, my idea for the 50k subscribers video would be for you to play Widor Toccata Symphony number 5 on a big large cathedral organ in somewhere like the Berlin cathedral in the German capital city or if there is a cathedral closer to where you are even better if you can travel to a big city near you with such a large cathedral organ.

Sounding good. Welcome back!

Loved the improv at the end. (And, nice use of the useless crescendo pedal! ha ha)

Since you are in Germany, Bach's Passacaglia BWV 582 should be possible on most organs. If you are really ambitious, Toccata in F BWV 540. In North America that pedal is just called the Crescendo shoe and it is normally to the right of the Swell shoes and placed a bit higher.

Answer to the title's question: Imho---Yes. To approach any sort of truly orchestral sound, I think a theatre organ needs at least six ranks available at at least three pitches per rank. Wurlitzer's Style "D"/165 2-manual 6-ranker is a great example. Vox, Tibia Clausa, Salicional, Flute, Open Diapason and Trumpet. One of each "flavor" of tone color! :) Of course, these are only good if all things are equal. Good regulation, "properly" set tremulants, a good "room"........... and a good player! Up to about 1,200 seats of good auditorium, the "D" works nicely. A third manual is also super useful as an "accent/alternate melody registration" manual---even with only six ranks! Bigger than that, I think 10 ranks at a minimum works well until you break the 2K-2.5K seating capacity mark. For a church? Assuming a "straight" design, maybe beginning at 2/16 for a chapel? One thing: You gotta "fill the room". Churches and such rely more on color than power many times, though. Summation: Yeah. It matters. From a purely practical standpoint for starters. :)

Cute little organ in a cute little church. Nice!

Wonderful videos! Always very interesting and informative. Hearing this one I kept thing it sounds perfect for some of the works by Sweelinck; perhaps the Fantasia Cromatica?

THIS WAS BRILLIANT!

Does size matter? Yes, to the extent that the smaller the organ, the narrower the range of literature that it can do justice to. A Handel concerto certainly doesn't need a four manual 100 stop organ. And also, Yes, to the extent that you want to give variety to the people who will be listening to the instrument every week for 40 years. This isn't as big a problem with a well-appointed and regulated small organ like the one here, used by a creative registrator. After all, people listen with perfect aplomb to a piano time after time without crying that it always sounds like a piano. And finally, Yes, to the extent that the organ needs enough power to energize the volume of air in the room. That is one of the key reasons why the Midmer-Losch in the Atlantic City convention hall is so gigantic. It is energizing a truly huge amount of air.