Time, Taste, and the Organ Case

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5 ай бұрын

This is a lecture presented at the American Institute of Organbuilders Convention in Charlottesville, Virginia in September of 2023. Matthew Bellocchio of Andover Organs talks about the history of organ case design and how it reflects tastes and styles of the times.
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@peterfennema3112 2 ай бұрын

Excellent! I watched the whole thing and learned so much. Thank you!

@kontrahylian 5 ай бұрын

This is absolutely tremendous and Informative, I hope possibly to see and buy Mr. Bellocchio's book if it gets published. As for that last organ he showed before he concluded the lecture, I remember seeing it on Facebook and I jokingly said "Somebody as an organbuilder must really like bring your kid to work day."

@Rl469 5 ай бұрын

A fabulous and fascinating presentation! Thank you for sharing it!

@agogobell28 5 ай бұрын

This was a phenomenally interesting lecture and presentation!! Thank you so much for uploading it here.

@marcdorsett6935 5 ай бұрын

Wonderful, animated and a definitive look into the organ case! Superb!

@peteacher52 5 ай бұрын

Strange not even a passing mention of William Leslie Sumner's classic tome on organ design, construction and principles of use. The background provided by this admittedly long in the tooth book enabled me the more to appreciate Mr Bellocchio's excellent presentation.

@alexross_organ 5 ай бұрын

That was awesome! Thank you so much for sharing this.

@rbaltimo 5 ай бұрын

EXCELLENT LECTURE AND PRESENTATION

@thomaswalters4365 5 ай бұрын

The photo of the H&H in St. Mary's Northfield was shown for a couple seconds, but suddenly changed to a photo of the Metropolitan Museum of Art organ. (c'mon, give Vermont a break)

@JontyTrain 5 ай бұрын

Really enjoyed that

@pierrelauwers8719 5 ай бұрын

Splendid document !!!

@rbaltimo 5 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@thomaswalters4365 5 ай бұрын

I always liked the Methuen Mem. Music Hall organ case.

@user-yt8du6py5e 5 ай бұрын

When are you going the NYC and feature Riverside, St. Thomas etc?

@richardharrold9736 5 ай бұрын

Riverside is just a big noisy pile of shite, Virgil Fox's exercise in narcissistic megalomania... St Mary the Virgin, St John the Divine, Columbia University... all much better organs. Then there's the magnificent Mander at St Ignatius Loyola...

@user-yt8du6py5e 5 ай бұрын

You are entitled to your opinion but I think you’re full of crap. And for your information, the organ is not the same as vigil had it build.

@oliverfiedler8502 5 ай бұрын

a thousand thanks for this great, informative and at the same time entertaining and amusing contribution, a real pearl - thank you It's a shame that not nearly as much attention is paid to the design of the console the last two organs are: Neuried St.Niolaus (Gerald Woehl) and Augsburg St.Elisabeth (schmid-orgelbau) germany

@matthewbellocchio5877 5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for identifying those two organs!! Glad that you enjoyed the lecture! Twenty years ago, I did an AIO lecture about the development of detached mechanical action consoles. Maybe, someday I'll have time to revise that one as well.

@oliverfiedler8502 5 ай бұрын

@@matthewbellocchio5877 that would really interest me (and I'm sure it's not just me) almost 30 years ago I had the opportunity (as a young student) to design a console for a 3 manual 103 stop organ (Dortmund Marten Immanuel Church), which was almost built that way ;-) a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me

@oliverfiedler8502 5 ай бұрын

@@matthewbellocchio5877 i think that would be great (and I'm sure it's not just me) almost 30 years ago I had the opportunity (as a young student) to design a console for a 3 manual 103 stop organ (Dortmund Marten Immanuel Church), which was almost built that way ;-) i guess it was a once in a lifetime chance for me...

@oliverfiedler8502 5 ай бұрын

@matthewbellocchio5877 St. Franz Xaver (Trudering) from the muenchnerorgelbau and Neue Pfarrkirche St. Johann Baptist (Haidhausen) from the freiburgerorgelbau are the other two organs JSBach (nickname ;-) from the german Pfeifenorgelforum found / knew them

@1955mlynch 4 ай бұрын

Interesting presentation, but it has been weeks, now almost 2 months since a video has been released. I hope all is well.

@holmespianotuning 5 ай бұрын

The nice thing about organ cases is there’s always something to complain about.

@leonardschick5257 5 ай бұрын

Modern ones yes, I am sitting next to a 1701 Schnitger organ. Nothing to complain about this case🙂

@richardharrold9736 5 ай бұрын

@@leonardschick5257 it probably has separate Pedal towers and a Ruckpositiv, neither of which Bach liked!

@leonardschick5257 5 ай бұрын

@@richardharrold9736 Well, no pedal towers here. This organ is useful for Buxtehude (there are short octaves and the style is rather 17th century). But why do you believe Bach didn't like the Rückpositiv and pedal towers? There is absolutely no evidence for that. Bach had a Rückpositiv in Mühlhausen, Weimar and Leipzig. No opinion is reported. Jacob Adlung, another central German organist, hated the Rückpositiv. But he wasn't Bach. Adlung hated reeds as well. Agricola disagrees with Adlung about that and states that Johann Sebastian Bach really liked the reeds in Katharinenkirche Hamburg. And according to Agricola Bach was also very fond of the Principal 32' in that Katharinenkirche. The Principal 32' was in...pedal towers... No evidence that Bach disapproved that or the Rückpositiv...

@richardharrold9736 5 ай бұрын

@@leonardschick5257 the organs that Bach actually designed, like Altenburg and Naumburg, usually have neither (Naumburg does have a Ruckpositiv but that's older!), but integrated cases... and of what relevance is Agricola? He died 200 years before Bach's birth.

@leonardschick5257 5 ай бұрын

@@richardharrold9736 Well, if you don't know Agricola.... he is one of the main sources about Bach's organ taste. I mean Johann Friedrich Agricola of course, who was a Bach pupil between 1739 and 1740 and who published Adlung, not the middle age guy. Thanks to Agricola we have some grasp on Bach's organ taste because he adds comments about Bach in Adlung's texts. Bach didn't design Altenburg. Bach did test the finished organ there and approved it. Bach was probably (!) involved in planing Naunburg, but there is not even evidence for that. We have no source about Bach liking or disliking the Rückpositiv.