Cool friend of the Men's Song! How nice that you admire the singing so much. When the covid guidelines allow, we will sing together 2 x a year in Katwijk. You are always welcome to join us live. We will of course reserve a special place for you. You don't know what you're going through! ;-) God bless you! And keep singing!

Hi, this is your captain speaking! Thanks for watching. When you come to The Netherlands, Some day, please visit me upstairs at The console of The organ…🙏

Mooi om te zien hoe hij reageert (z'n mond staat open van verbazing, ik denk dat hij dit nog nooit heeft gezien en gehoord) op deze mooie mannenzang👍👍 Dat is een opsteker voor Bert Noteboom en Marco den Toom die dit begeleiden. Ik geniet van deze zangmomenten.

Singing psalms with a lot of people like that always gives me shivers on my spine! Listening to it sometimes does too.

Psalm 150 vers 1 Hallelujah! Praise the LORD in his house with one accord! Praise him in the wide extent of his spacious firmament. Sing and shout his praise uprightly. His unbounded greatness praise and extol his wondrous ways; praise him for his deeds so mighty.

How very special to see this on KZfaq. I grew up in this church. It has one of the greatest organs in Holland. The 'klavieren' interconnect so the organplayer is ae to use more instruments at the same time. His 'co pilot' must also be an organplayer and assists during playing by selecting/deselecting different instruments during the musical piece. This organ is so powerful...you can feel de bass pass through your body. When I was younger i was able to play it one time. Very special. Those 1800 men who are singing...they are just men who share one thing: they love singing about their Lord. Every year or so a concert like this held. It's like a party....but for God. The acoustics of this church are special because this church has no pillars and a very high ceiling. It was built in the 16th century I believe.

Wow, I have been watching your videos for months now and never expected one about my hometown Katwijk. You are doing great, keep it up!

What a amazing and respectfull comment. Nice to see. Hé is surprised! Love that. .

Amazing! When you listen to this with some earphones, goosebumps are guaranteed.

Mannenzang Katwijk Geweldig om mee te maken met bovenstem

Normally twice a year, they do this. Since I live in the near, I go to this event. Those people come from every part of Holland. Even some from Canada. Its great to sing there. The organ is one of the biggest in Holland(not the best but ok). The goal is to collect money for projects to support poor people in different countries, mostly Africa.

Every manual has its own rank of pipes. By coupling the keys it's possible to use pipes from the other manual.

About the organ, each row of keys are there to control a specific section of pipes. The organist can choose which row of keays to lock together (in organ terms, we call it coupling) to have parts of the organ or the entire organ playing at the same time. This organist has all rows together, so he is using the entire organ. All that happens is that when the organist presses a key on one row, the same key is also pressed on the rest. The organ itself doesn't make any chords, the organist has to do this. There are no electrical parts in there, it is all made woth wooden mechanics. Only the air supply is motorised. Back in the day you had like 20 people pumping air to supply the thing with air.

I really hope you fully understand what psalm 150 is all about my friend... I"m so glad you did this!

This is the ultimate way of Dutch protestant singing: massive, long and above all LOUD!

Hey Highly, I'm so happy you're doing another pipe organ reaction. The keys don't exactly lock together, but you're on the right track. The organist can engage a Stop, that means pull out one of the levers, called a coupler. It links the different manuals; that's what the different keyboards are called. Each manual has different stops & they all have their own sounds, but if you use the coupler it lets the organist use more stops and so use different sounds. There're fabulous instruments. I a 1901 pipe organ every week and feel so privileged to do so. This organist is wonderful. Thank you for a fab reaction as always. Peace, love, happiness everybody x

Dear Friend, greetings from Germany. These Men came from the whole Netherlands. They sing the psalms as usual sung in many reformed Churches. In Katwijk every sunday thousands of people in different churches. I have visited such churches with more than 2000 Visitors in other places every sunday. Thank you and it is wonderful to see your surprised face. This is so lovely.

1800 voices! Its not particurlaly my song, like it sounds somewhat slow, but wow! would love to sit in a corner and hear 1800 voices singing it 😅.

very famous now in the netherlands even a dutch Pastor is reacted in a newspaper here about this video reaction

Mooi .dat we het nog hebben.oer nederlands.

Wij zijn hier trots💓 op dat we dit hebben en dat jij er ookvan geniet..

Does keys you see automatically moving when playing with the other keys. They are called: ghost keys. And yess they are locked. You can unlock it on the site with those handles by simply push it in. The site handles are also for the different sounds that the pipes can make. I know this because I played it a long time ago with my grandma. And I got a old harmonium at home with the same site handles

Praise Him!

I used to go to a church that had a big pipe organ. And the organist had to play a second ahead of the choir because when he pushed down on a key, it took a full second for the signal to travel to the pipes and for the sound to come out. Now that is talent.

Look , de Lofzang van Fleur, Amazing!!!!!🙏

I sometimes go to 's-Hertogenbosch, there's a beautiful cathedral with a great organ in it. Few things are as impressive as listening to an organ played in a cathedral! I don't know anything about the technicalities of playing an organ, the only thing I do know is that it's very very difficult

Nice to see your enthousiasm. I was some times in Katwijk in that church, singing there with many men. It is really beuatiful, sing there about God.

Please listen to Gert van Hoef with highland cathedral just beautiful

They sing in a special way, all notes are equaly long: "on whole notes". In Protestant reformed (orthodox) churches who are more conservative along the bible belt, they tend to sing like this. In more liberal churches they will sing rhythmic: the melody is more recognizable. The Netherlands is getting more secularised. Many churches loose their function as a church and get another usage. This in Katwijk, an old fishermen village.

I have been forced to go every Sunday and that's why I don't go anymore nowadays, but I remember one piece of organ music that I really liked. It was of Leon Boëllmann. Really worth checking out if you like organ music. Non religious in this case

I am from Katwijk and i live in Poland. I was there once. It was amazing. When I see you, so surprised,...... I can only say: try to visit this event. You need now to buy tickets because sometimes 3000 are coming so they have to organize and regulate this event. Worth go! If I have a change and it fits in my visit my hometown, and I can get a ticket, I would go. Because in life,.... it is amazing!

Passing by on KZfaq and seeing my hometown🤣🤣

Idd.Jackeline West het viel mij ook op ,hij veegde zelfs de tranen uit z,n ogen,zo ontroerde hem deze massale mannenzang ,hij prees ook Bert en Marco en de prachtige aukustiek van de kerk. En zag je wat voor shirt hij aan had,met een doodskop. Wat wonderlijk ,zo,n recht gemeende reactie van deze man. Echt bijzonder.... Hopelijk mag het deze man tot Rijke Zegen zijn.

Ammaizing thanks for your comments

Thanks for your comments, next time you welkome in the church

Upper men voices: a trademark of Dutch hymn singing

Cool you put this video's here! This church is in my place, very nice organ, organist is very talented and famous in this land.

Beautiful!

That was just amazing!

When you are able to put also the translation form Dutch to English in the subtitles then its even more clear to see and hear that the message these men sing with the psalm 150 is a massive one.

Hij heeft ook gereageerd op de mannenzang in Dordrecht bij Andre Nieuwkoop. Marco....nodig hem uit om te komen en dan ook gelijk naar Andre Nieuwkoop.

Ahhh, this is a cool video 🤩 I’m Dutch myself 🇳🇱

Kom een keer naar Katwijk vriend en maak het live mee🤗🤩🤩. Bel de dirigent op en regel dat !

Oh,and just as an aside... where do you think the expression "pulling out all the stops" comes from? ;-)

prachtig 1 een woord ..zo mooi

What lots of people (even pastors) don't (yet) understand. God created us according to His own image and likeness. Godly. Mankind/the first Adam fell. The image of God in man got lost. That's why there is all this predicament on earth (selfishness, greed, lust, wars, sicknesses, death, etc). We are all born into that mess. For the fall of man a perfect atoning sacrifice had to be made.... that is what God did in Christ. With His own once and for all perefect sacrifice, He paid the debt for the fall of man for us, so we can be indwelled by His Spirit again and finally receive the divine life of the ages back, the first Adam let got of in the fall of man. An amazing act of grace and love by our creator. That is what you see happening in Christ's first disciples. They too healed all and walked in unselfish love. And yes.... that is still avaible today. The holy blood is in place, the Holy Spirit is here to give us understanding, power and transform us back to origin. Not to be debated about, but to be embraced and be-come. So: The Kingdom of God already came. Through Christ, in Spiritform, in those that understand. Hence the divine healing miracles we experience. God manifested in Christ to give us back the divine life mankind lost in the fall of Adam. Christ, the exact image of the invisible God. The image we were created after in Gen 1. The image we lost in the fall of man. The image that can be freely restored by Christ's blood and Holy Spirit working IN us. What a plan. What a solution. What a love. What a God. Jesus is amazing. It is the ultimate conclusion of the word and plan of God. God came full circle. He Himself stooped down from glory to restore us back to original created value: Christlikeness. Walking in divine healing power and unselfish love. Jesus, born of the Spirit of God, filled with the spirit of God. The "Son" of God, the incarnated word, God in the flesh. For three years He healed all, raised the dead, casted out demons, controlled nature, spoke pure divine truth. He said: "Follow Me. If you see Me, you see the Father. The Father and I are one. The glory I have IN My Father, I give to you. It pleases the Father to give you His Kingdom/Holy Spirit/divine nature. I will send Holy Spirit, the same as Me, He will be IN you, guide you into truth and give you explosive power. The same miracles i do, you will do too, because you will understand that the Father is IN Me and I am IN you. Freely I give you My Kingdom/Holy Spirit/divine nature, heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons, freely I give, freely share" Etc, etc, etc. I have experienced thousands of beautifull healing miracles through the power of Holy Spirit IN me already. Broken bones, cancers, covid, all kinds of infirmities healed in seconds. Demons manifesting and casted out by a simple "get out, in Jesus name". Jesus. De name above all names. In Him all power and wisdom is sourced and.... He calls us one with Him. God in man and man in God again. C'mon Jesus!! So.... again: God stooped down IN Christ to restore us back to Gen 1:27 were He said: "Let us make man according to our image and likeness and let them have authority.....": walk as Christ. Christ, the exact image of the invisible God. The image we were created after and being restored to by His atoning blood for the fall of man and indwelling Holy Spirit. You are free to receive this original divine life of the ages by Holy Spirit of Christ/God. Ask Him to guide you into truth. Read the Gospel of John and fall in love with your creator. You are not made for the fall of man and its effects, but for the image/glory of God and to walk like Christ. Holy Spirit is the guide and transforming power that will get you there. Amazing grace. A big leap in faith can be made when we start realizing we are already IN Christ, IN the last Adam. Free from the fall! Loved! Growing into awareness of our new (yet old) godly identity. Changing by Holy Spirit. The most fullfilled life ever. Paul healed all on Malta. He understood and wrote: "As in the first Adam ALL died (lost the divine nature), so also ALL were made alive IN Christ to walk in Zoë (= divine life) again". "IN Christ (the last Adam) we are co-cruisified (dead to the fall and its effects), co-raised (justified/made righteousness, holy, blameless, above reproach), co-seated (one with Him)" "The fullness of deity dwells in Christ and YOU HAVE BEEN MADE COMPLETE IN HIM, who is the head of every principality and power". So.... thank you Jesus! Thank you for redeeming me from the fall of man. Thank you for your Holy Spirit that makes this new (yet old) divine life come alive in me. You are amazing! In the shadow of Peter the sick healed... He understood too and wrote: "By Gods power (Holy Spirit) and knowing Christ, we have become partakers of the divine nature and have escaped the fall of man". The divine life of the ages has been returned to us by Jesus once and for all perfect atoning sacrifice for the debt of the fall of man and His indwelling Holy Spirit in us. Jesus/God is amazing!!! Ask Him to give you revelation and change you to the way it was before the fall of man: Christlikeness. He will do so. For it is written: "the Spirit brings forth after His own kind". "I have come to give you Zoë (divine life) in abundance...."

Fantastic cultureclash, love it, love the presentation, love the music, well done!

Amazing!!!!!!!!!!

YES!!! finally you did a reaction video on this. I was sp hoping That you would, but didnt wanted to beg for it. This is so wonderfull!

lol i live 50 meters from that church and i was wondering what they all where doing in there

The keys that are moving as if by magic are when divisions of the organ are coupled with stops!

As always a great reaction. Pleas react to Don Mclean - Vincent. It's about the paintings and the life of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. A perfect example of how to turn beautiful paintings into beautiful music. You can choose the life video or the lyrics video with his paintings.

Welcome in the Netherlands!

So funny to hear and see this American guy reacting on this typical Dutch fenomenal. 'This is the net crazy level' hahaha

I was there at that moment, never forget what a beautiful and magical moment this is

Haha awesome!!

Mijn zwager kan ook heel goed orgel spelen, maar je moet idd eens komen in Holland om dit te mee maken

I have a soft spot for choir's.. so automatic like

It's called coupling with the use of the stops. the organ is a tracker organ or (mechanical) organ meaning that there is very little electrical aside from the blowers. newer organs are electro magnetic and the newest organs built air digitally tuned organs.

Wauuuw beautifull!

Thank you HXC. 😊😊

Hey this is from my home town

I am from Katwijk. Lmao. Small village yo😂

I've been there several times with my dad. Singing with 1800 men is overwelming. There is also a choir present, they sing that we call ‘bovenstem’. That is a few tones above the melody, sometimes that is very high. In this video you hear it in the first 2 verses, the last verse they sing all the same notes.

There are more of this recordings. If you want some more rythm, watch this one: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bJ-AZpWkq6vDnIE.html

How did i get on this video 😃😄😁💯👍👋👌

I'm from Katwijk

John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

This church has a very short acoustic “echo” time. They added an additional acoustic in the recording. In The Netherlands there are much better sounded big churches, like those in the UK, France and Germany. This big organ was the "showroom" model from the builder, 80 instruments build in 1983, as they made later the bigger one in Paris, St. Eustache (101 instruments build in 1989).

Sounds like a footbal (soccer) stadium

Geweldig ook het gezicht van Paul.

Hi there, can you please make a video of youre reaction on Andre Nieuwkoop? He playes also organ and he is good! Greatings from the Netherlands!

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Amazing of you to react to the mannenzang. The event is only for men and woman are not allowed. But I sneaked in with my mother in law and it was unbelievable. You should join some time.

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Must see: Angel City chorale massive choir makes it rain ,Afrika toto 2018

Katwijk by the sea, very religious village.

KATTEK!!!!! ✌️

Doing it the Dutch way🤩🇳🇱

If you like this psalm-singing, you also may like this video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r8pne92D2pjLc4U.html - from Zaltbommel. Here you can hear how slow the psalms still are sung in some areas of the Netherlands. Or you may like this one kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qJmTpdGFrN-ycWQ.html - from Kampen. Here two different psalm are sung immediately after each other, which is quite uncommon. And no upper-voice ('bovenstem': a relict from 4-part psalmbooks that were used about 200 years ago) is heard here. Moreover the melodies are sung in their original rhytms, with alternating short and long notes. But it is not less impressive and beautiful.

Hij heeft ook gereageerd op psalm 42 met Andre Nieuwkoop. Hij zou er echt een keer bij moeten zijn. Mooie reactie van hem, kijk maar naar zijn ogen en z'n mond open van verbazing.

Kippenvel! 🐔 💪🏻

Yes super MEN.

Soli Deo Gloria

The reason why these men are singing comparably slow comes from the Dutch tradition of singing in "whole notes". Due to the massive reverberation in large churches and large attendance, singing psalms and hymns rhythmically would be challenging for organist and congregation and would quickly become an undisciplined mess. So, churches decided to make all notes the same length to make singing together easier.

Kattuk...

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⚡💦Could you please make a video of THE PROPHET ITS MY BEAT 💣💥

can you please react to kinderen voor kinderen it is a special childeren choir. every year there are auditions this year the choir exist 42 years each year there come new kids

The organ is great . The singing is sad. If you here the faster version or without the singing it is like a festival 👊🙂

Why are you acting as iff you know 1 thing about this type of music sweetie?

How funny it is, Katwijk going viral.... how come that at metal concerts thousands can sing on key while in church it sounds horribly off?

i prefer Christian rap, like Shai Linne, Hazakim or Timothy Brindle. these people sing so slow i would have ended before they even got at the half

The choir as usual lagging half a second behind the organ, the director frantically trying to speed them up to no avail...now if there was a lord he would be pissed off. Try again with 12 people.