I'm a pianist but I LOVE THIS CHANNEL SO MUCH

its insane how complicated stuff they were able to build like 400 years ago

Thank you Fraser for showing this in english at long last lol. I'm sorry it unfortunately deals with that one small pipe that isn't working & that the oboes are so far out of tune, but it was very educational on how this particular organ works. Hopefully the organ builder can get everything fixed for you without having to get the organ tuner out as well.

If it's 400-odd volts it's probably 3-phase.

Invaluable information in a understandable format! Thank you from San Diego, California.

Gosh Fraser....please tell me that all of this will NOT be on the exam!!😉 Thank you for showing the innards of such a beloved instrument for all of us!! I’ll have to watch this video a few more times to fully understand your wonderfully educational commentary!🌺

FRASER: I am so pleased that people, generally, seem to be re-discovering the pipe organ, and the incredible skill of the Organist. On the 1st Night of the Proms, one of the pieces was Janacek's wonderful GLAGOLITIC MASS, which culminates in a magnificent organ solo; although the organ features throughout the Mass. In the Royal Albert Hall, the 'gravitas' the organ provided, in the background, was very apparent. The excellent Scott Brothers have done much to 'popularise' the organ. Last March we were due to hear Olivier Latry playing the organ of the Symphonie de Paris; but the shenanigans at French Customs meant Eurostar advised us (two older men) not to travel. I neither play, nor have any technical expertise; but I just LOVE the rich sound of the organ.

Oh wow cool! Already a new video? Amazing!

I have never been inside a pipe organ one day. But I can't complain giving that I have a huge 4/32 wulitzer theater organ

Very Interesting and beautiful music...................... Thanx ))

Lovely piece at the end. Thanks.

Thanks for the very interesting tour. It's always fun to get to explore behind the façade of an organ. And thanks for the enjoyable, and almost calypso-sounding, "Divertissement" ! 👍 ❤️

Well I don't know if my comments asking for this video made a difference, but it was great to see you post the exact video I asked for! Thank you for your time invested. Maybe you can get a nice interview with the organ builder? :)

once again thank you for your service of music and everything you do!! I did the exact thing going in the pipe chamber at Edgefield ; the front of it's from the older one before Moller; inside the chamber is all Moller pipe organ; still has a romantic sound ; I play one service every Sunday at 10am. it's a blast to get the inside of the Organ and I keep watching. thanks again!!

Very interesting Fraser as always. It's good to have you back looking and sounding well

Classy classic class as usual. :D

Fascinating. Thanks for the behind-the-scenes tour! Love your channel. Keep up the good work!

Yeah, astonishing complexity from so long ago! And (unsurprisingly), wonderful music that lifts the spirit! Thank you!

What a fantastic video ! Thankyou for uploading this. Looking forward to the next ones !. ABL

This was a great look at the workings of your organ, Maestro Gartshore! You even produced the video on a time budget. Top that off with a nice and cheery improvisation and I think this was a smashing success! Thank you for your work, Maestro! I’m glad that you’re bringing organ knowledge to us and sharing a passion that you so clearly have.

Super video. Don't apologise for being technical - you're doing it right, if a little rushed. Some cut-aways and diagrams would have helped to explain what is going on. Otherwise I love what you are doing, and I'm sending my organ curious friends in your direction.

Just what I wanted, a good look inside that organ. Really interesting, as always. Thanks!

Im starting to learn organ right now, this channel has helped a bunch! Thank you so much Sir

Thank you for making these videos. I'm learning to play the organ and this has certainly helped explain things! Not to mention, your organ playing is truly amazing and has encouraged me to practice more in hopes of one day sounding as good!

I enjoyed this! Quite interesting. :)

LOVE THIS!! Thanks for such an in-depth tour! Just starting to learn the organ myself here in Alexandria, Louisiana US!

Thank you for making this very interesting video. There is so much more to the workings of an organ than I imagined. Very articulate explanation and very knowledgeable and skilful musician.

What is the equipment to the left of the manuals on the console, and what year was the organ built?

I notice that lots of the men went right to how it was wired. The Cathederal at Corpus Christi, Texas is a really nice pipe organ with a wonderful sound. It was wonderful singing there except for the pipes being loud at times because they were in the choir loft with us. Some of them were out in the open so the congregation could marvel at them.

Fantastic video! Love from Kyllburg, South-West Germany

Fraser.. Fantastic episode! And I loved the technical bits... I have a small collection of pipes which I was intending to one day ‘display’ on the wall on some sort of custom rack.... they came out of a couple of church’s here in the Toronto area (Canada) where they were discarded after the organ builder had done work replacing and and augmenting the instruments. So I got to pick what I wanted before they were hauled away for scrap.

Thanks for the tour, Fraser - I'm nomally to be found at my home digital organ & don't get out much(!) so it's brilliant to see the innards of a real organ 😊 As an aside, my husband (non-organist): 'I love that chap's face'... 😄

You play very beautiful. I can never stop listening to a organ like this one. I would love to play organ none stop for 10 hours and then some. Thank You

Thank you for posting such an interesting tour of the inner workings. Glad you didn't have a maze of tracker rods to negotiate. 👍

Splendid video, as always. It's certainly unusual to see different types of windladen combined in a single organ! Also, if I may suggest, German wikipedia has a great page on Windladen with good illustrations, including the Kegellade mentioned here, so you may just post a link to the article. It would seem that whenever it comes to organs, the most comprehensive information on them would come from Germany!

Another great video thanks Fraser. Will we ever see you playing on a Theatre organ, maybe the blackpool wurlitzer lol

how long is the reaction time between key and pipe?

Always been interested of the inner workings of organs. Always wanted to build one

do you know what kind of switches the keyboard uses?

I don't know if it was asked before, but what's the name of the piece in the end of the video? It's so happy and light. Btw, if it's an original composition, kudos Fraser!!

Fascinating Fraser! I presume the difference between electro-pneumatic (EP) and tubular-pneumatic (TP) is that the latter uses pressurised air all the way from the console to the wind chest. The grand organ in the Sydney Town Hall is the largest TP organ in the world. TP had its heyday in the latter part of the 19th C, when electrical technology was in its infancy. Every organist I've spoken to loves the TP action. I notice in this EP organ there are an awful lot of electrical components bound closely to wood. Thinking about Notre Dame, isn't that a firetrap?

It's pretty amazing, how such a (rather) simple circuit can control such a heavy and big instrument. Do they use data buses in more modern organs? I imagine, that it would be a pain to find a defective strand in those thick cables.

Thank you for this great video! I would live to hear the congregation singing!

Thanks again Fraser. Valiant effort although some simple diagrams may have helped. Purists tend to desparage electro-pneumatic action, insisting that to be significantly inferior to tracker action ─ which of course can be great to play but difficult to actualize in larger organs. The electro-pneumatic action was widely used in cinema (theatre) organs, exemplified by WurliTzer, because of the versatility and speed, plus the necessity for flexibility in console location (also I somehow think it would be difficult to design a tracker action that coped with a console lift!). I became thoroughly familiar with this type of action when extensively participating in the rehousing of a 4/22 Wurli from start to finish. My organ teacher frequently drew on this acquired skill as at lessons I would often be called on to address anything from cyphers, non-sounding pipes to minor tuning problems. WurliTzers are now in my past, but the knowledge gained has proved useful in the more 'classical' world (or have I said all this before?). By the way, your mains supply will be AC as someone pointed out, and probably 220volt. 400volt AC is high-power industrial etc installations. Depending on age, some organs use DC for the blowers (100volt??? - not sure). Actually, I'm curious about the age of this organ. It looks as if the instrument has gone through various stages, and the console may not be original to the pipe--work?? And how do you manage repertoire with 55-note manuals and reduced pedals? (or do you not aim for 'repertoire' in that church?)

there is a fair few "kegelade" cone valve chests in Australian organs, the outside envelope motors rot out in twenty years, cost a few dollars to replace.

Really interesting, it looks like CAT5 wire and, not an ethernet patch panel but a larger phone patch panel. Thank you for getting technical!

As an ex organ builder I cringe when I see an organist climb into an organ!! And I bet most others do too...............seen too much accidental damage done by careless movement inside the organ, narrow passageways cause knocking pipes ( usually a reed as generally they are the first thing on a slider soundboard) thus getting the regulation of the reed out of whack............... Fraser what did you say about the reeds unable to be tuned coz they needed regulating?.................Lol

Love ya.

That's interesting about how long the keys actually are. That is one of my pet peeves about the cheaper plastic (synthesiser or master keyboard) keys: they have the joints just beyond where the visible part of the keys end, and it is almost impossibly to play the top parts. This is one of the reasons I still like my old DX7 (II-D) keyboard: the keys are sufficiently long to make them very well playable.

Pipe organs require constant maintenance and it is expensive.

It would be interesting if you could compile some of the actual service music, just to give the complete atmosphere in the church.

You are so fabulous!

Is you musical outtro improvised or an actual composition...? It sounds so familiar, but maybe I'm just recognizing a certain chord progression. I LOVE the on beat pause at 19:30... bravissimo! (sehr gut)... and the breath... as if to say... "and, here we go" ❤️🎶🤗 Don't be shy to get too technical, we love seeing the internals of the organs. Are there any organs in the world that are exact twins of each other? Maybe that is a topic for a video. Fraser, to you, and your reliably steady camera operator... I do not know you, neither do you know me, but music makes us family! Just two tiny last words with emmense meaning: Thank you

Interesting that the organ was built with a slider chest for the swell and a cone chest (looks like a bit of tubular pneumatics going on as well?) for the great. Perhaps an amalgamation of a previous organ? Having enjoyed your wonderful improvisations, I wonder could I request a video with a few basic hints on hymn re-harmonisation. It's something I never learned, and perhaps I'm too old to learn now. It may be a bit too esoteric...but I get the feeling we could all learn a bit of technique from you.

How does the combination system above the stops work? It looks fairy straightforward but not sure.

A lot of keyboard clatter - to convince 'us' that it's a tracker organ... (of course it's not...). Regardless always a joy to hear....

Enjoyed the video. Could you please explain why ranks are split between C and C sharp? Obviously they need some way to split but why that particular choice of split? Is it arbitrary?

Alternating Current. AC voltage.

You play GREAT, boy I would also like to hear you play A WURLITZER PIPE ORGAN !! I love both tipes of Organ,s !!

Magnificent presentation as always! - and very interesting so se the inner workings - i just wonder how the motor gets its cooling, when in an airtight box? - Greetings, Levi from Finland

How often does the organ builder work on the organ? I've only had ours worked on maybe once since I've been learning music (about 12 years)

The video name is quite clever!

Thanks for sharing Fraser, once again a high quality video! If there's something that could be changed, it would've been nice if the camera was pointing more in the direction where you're pointing and not on you. Sorry, it's not that I don't want to see you, haha! It's just that it would help a lot to see things from a good angle and long enough to actually understand how things hangs together. But nontheless, a really good and informative video!

When you go to upgrade the electronics, I would advise getting a new console altogether, complete with Solid State-type controlling as well as 56-note manuals and a 30-note pedalboard. Also, a chimneyed Quintaton?

Why are there mixture stops with a fixed combination of ranks instead of letting you register each rank individually?

In Italians pipe organs the swell pedal is mechanically connected with the swell box.

Ich find´s klass, dass jemand wie ich, der Englisch nicht perfekt beherrscht, alles Gesagte in diesem Video verstanden hat, Danke! PS: Mich würde mal ein Cover oder eine Interpretation von dir zu "Miss Marple´s Theme" sehr viel Freude bereiten.

Oh wow. Those long white strips in the console look like typical telephone exchange busses. Which I guess would make sense, wouldn't it?

400 volts. Must be three phase or two hots. In the USA the organ console runs on 110v and the blower for medium and small organs would be 240v for blower single phase and 208 three phase. Wanamaker would use 480 3 phase. Must be different in Germany

What’s with the noisy action?

“Can’t hear the motor running”, certainly not the case on all organs. I turned on a very old fully pneumatic pipe organ to cover the sound of people going to confession (one of those open European style confessionals, rather than the sound resistant box). Scared the crap out of me it was so loud starting up. Not expecting that at all.

Habe ich was übersehen oder finde ich die deutsche Version nicht?

How many pipes are in the organ

Ah friend, as always a great video, thankfully no Cadbury. :)

Thanks for the look inside. At 5:19, that's merely an electrical distribution frame. No real analogy with a computer.

I was picturing the innards being like a old-time telephone exchange - with magnetic relay switches everywhere. Can the organ builder put a wider access door in?!

could you make a video on your favourite organ composers

:-) 💙

That ventil cone valve chest should be replaced with a nice new slider chest. No fuss no muss.

yay first comment

The strip in the console is not quite a computer. It's Just an connection board. And do you realy have 56 pipes on the windchest? Or did you just count the number of soldering-points wich are almost always the same because these strips aren't custom made. It doesnt make sense to build an 56 pipe organ en only make the console 54 keys. The amount of cost reducing is near zero. And at 15:34... Are you sure that's a quintatone? It looks more like a rohrflöte ;)

New video? Instalike!

Ich muss anfangen, auf Deutsch zu schauen. so kann ich mehr lernen. Ich entschuldige mich bei meiner Abneigung gegen Cadbury.