Hi Andrew, thanks. Actually one of my KZfaq subscribers helped me to play and record on this iconic instrument for a few hours when I was traveling in the area. Absolutely astounding and one of the most significant organs of the region, if not Germany.

The same Kestners that owned the company which made Kewpie dolls in the 1910's? I was reading about them today.

@@joannescouchet7038 , Yep, the very same! They made Kewpie Dolls, and all manner of other creepy porcelain dolls! Yeah, you will also see them on the PBS series Antiques Roadshow. Small world!😁

Thank you Jake. Not only in England!

it's a Wohltemperierte Stimmung (1⁄5 pythagoreisches Komma). That gives the B minor Prelude additional drama. And it is a 16ft tierce mixture with 4/5ft in the bas and in the treble at c2 also a 3-1/5ft. Impressive sound!

According to Dr. Karosi, there IS going to be one

Cool, thanks!

There is a big space underneath the pedals, I guess it is for the trackers, or the console seems to be elevated about two feet above the floor.

The video you're thinking of is a recording made by Hans Andre-Stamm. I think it was the entire works of Bach. Also, I know exactly what you're talking about with the light shining through the pedal board! Maybe it was done to highlight the foot work?

@@cromorne yeah it was Hans Andre-Stamm! I was wondering because the pedal lighting made seem that there was an entire hole under the pedals and if something were to happen the organist may fall through!

Roger Scott Cathey Have you tried plugging it through a headphone amplifier?

@@musicstewart9744 : I'd love to try something like that someday, but like I said, presently restricted to my little LG which does fine with harpsichord, viols, other instruments, but for organ . . . . A 1/8th inch speaker simply cannot do an organ justice. In any case, I restrict my organ enjoyment solely to live and proximal experience. Rare these days.

Roger Scott Cathey some good earphones will do the trick with the sound.

Evidently my heart like got removed. Well, nothing against the artist at all. And earphones or stereo systems other than a Bose in surround sound could possibly reproduce the in-person effect. That of vibrations felt in the chest and the head by being in the same room with the organ itself. . . That's why I call it little more than noise without that. Bach on a little 2.25" speaker is a joke.

If you lived 2000 kms away from the nearest organ, you would perhaps perceive something more than noise. You could even hear Bach... But you are most evidently an inhabitant of the over-spoilt so called 1st world to write such a comment...

I agree. When people say toes only on the pedalboard when playing Bach it seems a bit rigid. I just can't imagine that Bach didn't use his heels on the pedals when he found it helpful to the playing of a piece.

On an organ like this, it is inconvenient and awkward to use heels. The pedalboard is extremely wide (not AGO standard) and very heavy. Using the heels would result in pressing them in the back that would need two or three times the force when compared to the front part of the keys. Forcing a modern pedaling technique on this pedalboard would result in thumping and mostly holes in the pedal notes whenever the heels are used. The physicality of the pedalboard and pedal action is compounded by the fact that manuals are high and forward so one has to lean forward to reach them. This also would make the use of heels even less effective, so forcing such technique would risk to break the pedalboard. I myself wonder why some heel-trained organists refuse to play and learn from historic instruments.

@@bkarosi thank you, sir, for the explanation. I hadn't noticed that the Walterhausen pedal board was wider than most "flat" keyboards, which are usually narrower than AGO.

@@bkarosi I also wonder....

@@billraty14 Not to mention Silbermann's pedalboards that are tilted backward and are much shorter making it impossible to use heels. This is a topic that I want to eventually address in one of my videos