Your speaker most likely doesn't go that high. To me it sounded lower than the one before.

Shining Armor On the last one, he went back to a slightly lower one.

***** yeah, with my too-pricey headphones that one almost precisely aligned with my tinnitus to produce a most irritating vibrato, lol

You are referring to a "sharp" mixture, made up of very loud, shrill pipes. They can be made of lower-pitched pipes too.

+Shining Armor How does a pony such as you know so much about pipe organs?

The Great division is always a good starting point. Look for stops called Diapason or Principal. Those give you the "organ tone" that you won't find in other instruments. The number on the stop indicates the length of its longest pipe, and by extension, the pitch. 8' is the same pitch as a piano, 16' is an octave lower, 4' an octave higher. You get the idea. Pull one of each and you'll get a good sound to start off with.

You start with a set of keys honey

Joseph Sometimes an organist needs to change stops very quickly. The pistons above the keyboards allow the organist to do that; the organist can program them to change the stops as desired. For instance, if I wanted the clarabella flute and the harmonic tuba, but didn't have time to change that in the middle of a piece, I could simply push one of the pistons and it would do that for me instantly.

Sometimes they hire a couple of guys to change the registration

BVale and

The name of the tune is Aurelia. The tune is usually sung to the words of The Church's One Foundation.

Lifts were very theatrical. I don't know if they were ever used with church organs, but I've heard of churches who considered installing their pulpit on a lift so that it and the minister would sink out of sight (and hearing) at a preset time. :)

Isn’t that what Virgil Fox used?

+Braden Cutright-Head They're the expression pedals. They open and close the boxes that surround the different divisions like the Choir/Swell/Solo/etc. to make them louder or quieter. Some organs also have one pedal as a Crescendo pedal which can be programmed to turn on/off different pipes as the pedal is moved.

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the silver knobs are called toe studs they do the same function as the white buttons called pistons right below each manual or key board now the pedals that look like several car gas pedals right above the pedal keyboard those are called crescendo or expression pedals

Thank you guys:)!

I think he was saying that the pipes in THIS specific church are for decorative purposes. As for it being true in ALL churches, I highly doubt that. THIS church is enormous and houses 8,000 pipes. I can't imagine a small or average sized church to have exposed pipes which are purely aesthetic and would havd to assume a small church to have operable pipes which are exposed. All in all, I'm sure it all depends on both the size of the church/cathedral and the size of the organ/pipes in question. Just my guess.

the reason there is no need to expand an organ to 88 keys(like piano) is the pitches and octives are controlled by "stops" and "tabs" which can be mixed or layered at will by a competant organist. mixing a 32'bourdon with a 8' tibia can give a huge sound in only 1 octive range.....a piano would not have the voicing spectrum to compete with such an array of sound

***** You have some very valid points here on why you don't need 7 1/3 octaves on an organ manual (or 8 octaves on the world's most expensive pianos)! Do you know that on the Midmer-Losh Organ at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, the lowest manual does indeed have 88 keys? Manual 2 has 76 keys, followed by manuals 3 through 7 having the customary 61 keys and this organ is only one of two on Earth that have a 64' bottom C pipe (the Grand Ophecleide in this case a flue pipe), whereas Sydney Town Hall's organ in Australia has a 64' Contra Trombone, which has a reed in it! Now, I know why I always preferred the organ to the piano, even from being a little kid back in the 1970s and 1980s! The tonal possibilities of an organ are limited only by the quality of the pipe making (or in the case of analog and digital electric organs by the sound synthesis methods)! With a piano, (and they are all slightly different themselves, you only have that one struck string sound, again dependant on the quality of manufacture! No wonder why digital piano (and organ) for that matter are so popular these days (because of the many actual instrument sounds and nuances contained within these instruments! I've even had personal experience with a couple of 61 key keyboards and was amazed by how many sounds (along with octave transposition) that are possible, where you would only need more keys if you wanted them (such as for classical music pieces where it would be a pain to have to transpose octaves on the fly when you would run out of keys)! What would you rather have, though: 88 keys and 3 pedals or 61 keys × 2 (or more manuals) and up to 32 pedals physically there to play music on? Also, as you have said before, all of the draw knobs, rocker tabs, tilting tablets, toe studs, expression pedals (on a piano you only have three, tops four or more on Stuart and Sons, Boesendorfer, etc. extended range piano)! So, for learning a keyboard instrument, go forms decent organ, as opposed to a piano, then you will be able to play anything! Check out Augsburg's Pipe Organ on KZfaq, they claim to have a 128' low C pipe on theirs (however true that is)!

***** Those manuals on the Midmer-Losh are even longer than I originally thought: Manual 1 and 2 have at least 88 keys and manual 3 has (it appears) 76 or more! Manuals 4-7 have the customary 61, but starting with 3 are progressively tilted more vertical so that the organist can reach them easily (7 is almost vertical)! This, along with about 1250 tilting tablets controlling about 33,000 pipes, 8 expression pedals (one for each manual and the common one for the pedalboard, crescendo/diminuendo, etc.) So, this is one of the grandest of consoles to be able to capably play one of the world's largest instruments!

The 64' on the Midmer-Losh is mostly a diaphone profundo, with a 32' dulzian starting at tenor C.

+BVale and to add to your point, most of the stops didn't utilize the entire range in favor of 61-note ranks

They are pistons, they control some functions.

Namely combinations, cancels, couplers, tuttis, sound effects, and the very largest 32' stops.

It would have been interesting to hear about how manuals can be linked together ( I believe the term coupling is used.) I know little about that.

Michael Bauers I'd like to know how TV works...or how a thermos bottle knows whether to keep something hot, or keep it cold.

CRT TVs and analog TV signals weren't too hard, but now that they have gone to LCD TVs and ATSC, I couldn't help you. As for a thermos, it doesn't actually do anything except insulate which slows down heat exchange, thus if anything, it keeps the temp at the original temp longer.

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The drawknobs to the right and left of the keyboards control different types of sounds like strings, flutes, trumpets etc. The big pedals against the back of the console control volume. The 32 foot pedals are a keyboard like the four above it. The white buttons under the keyboards allow you to change sounds on the keyboards by pushing them instead of pulling out the drawknobs. You can set them to any combination of the white drawknobs on the sides that you want so you can quickly change sounds. You can play a different sound on each keyboard. For example a flute sound on one and an oboe on another .

David Smith that’s awesome, do the buttons physically move the stops?

@@grungeisdead4455 Yes. When you push a combination button or toe stud the stops go in or out. Those big metal buttons above the pedal board are for changing combinations with the foot if your hands are too busy playing. Some older organs don't have the buttons or toe studs and that means you have to pull each stop by hand. Actually having more keyboards, stops and buttons makes it easier to play, not more complicated as it would seem.

Me too!

Actually, there were 2-manual and pedal instruments before Bach. But, he expaned that number to 3 or 4 manuals. Now, we have organs with 6 and 7 manuals.

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The key is the thing on the manual, and the note is the pipe that it plays.

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