SINFONIA❤ We Thank you James, we Thank you.

Very informative, interesting and fascinating. Great instrument. Thank you James.

Mr. Kotzschmar must smile down upon you when you play this. What an honor to have this organ carry your name.

Fascinating. I've read about it in books but this was real. Thanks for sharing.

I was surprised how thin the cable is that connects the console to the organ. I expected a cable like a tree trunk wired to an enormous plug! A brilliant and very interesting video, Thank you!

I once had a tour of this magnificent organ. Mr Harold Stover played it that day. James' tour included pulling out all the STOPS! So looking forward to his Bach concert. We are really lucky to have James. Delightful!

Absolutely fascinating, watched it twice so far. I'd love to hear it in person.

Wow! That was a very fast 36 minutes. Fascinating stuff sir, thank you for the great tour. You’re obviously a very knowledgeable organist as to the workings of the pipe organ, and a very accomplished artist as well.

Wonderful! Thank you.

A glorious tour of a glorious organ. Very informative and beautifully explained and filmed. Of all the organ tours on You Tube, this is the best I've seen so far. Thank you all concerned. (From Durban, South Africa.)

Thanks for the detailed tour! I have heard this organ twice, thanks to having friends living in the Portland area. I was also supposed to be part of a TV crew that covered a rededication of this famous instrument, but got upstaged by my boss, who suddenly became a pipe organ fan :( . Finally, I knew that the Austin universal windchest design was designed to facilitate service of the instrument, but never realized the windchest was so large that you have a small apartment in there! Thanks again.

Thank you, James for the wonderful tour!

James, well done !!

Being a fan of both Mr. Kennerley and the Kotzschmar Organ, I really enjoyed this tour.

Fantastic!

An amazing tour! I was surprised at all of the percussion and toy stops, which I thought were usually only found on “theatre” organs!

This is mad cool! Honestly would dig hearing this organ accompanying some rock or pop music especially with the percussions.

March 29, 2020 what I would give to be there and listen once more......

Excellent tour! What a magnificent machine! Thanks so much for doing this. I've shown it to all my piano students.

dear organ master james its absolutely amazing. what a fantastic , giantific and marvelous instrument! thank you for this fantastic guided tour through this nice organ! you have so much fantastic special effects in this instrument. it s absolutely fantastic to provide this much special effects for your cocert visitors. you are a very sympthic and remarkebale artist! once more again many thaks for postig this vid. greetings from germany!

Wonderful and wonder making instrument. Thank you for such a cool tour!!

This will have to serve as a substitute to the postponed Bach concert. I'm guessing James would rather be in Portland then NYC right now. Excellent job on the tour!

This is really a tremendous tour; the best I've ever seen, certainly! I've heard many organs, but not yours, yet, unfortunately.

Nice sound indeed 🙏

Thank you so much for this marvelous tour. Could you plz remind me of which selection it is that you featured to open and close the vid?

I love the reeds

About the best explanation in addition to the Yale organ

Wow that contra bombarde is so low I think I heard it once you go down to the c note it does sound like a helicopter

Nice

Would have loved to hear this instrument in it's full blazing grandeur.

Mr Kennerley must be the only municipal organist left in the entire USA.

23:44 Is that an "anti-theft cable" strung between all those pipe stoppers? No? Lightning strike protective grounding? Acrobatic ropes for church mice? Done guessing; tell me what they're for. Last guess; ropes form a "tether" so you can't drop a stopper onto person in the bowels of the organ.

If you put a paper roll with holes in the organ like a player piano, then they wouldn’t be called manuals they’d be called automatics! Ahahahahahahahah! Organ jokes.

Couldn't they hire an American organist for this job?