10:39 Bach is supposed to have said, "If you hit the right notes at the right time, it [the organ] plays itself."

One of your best. There is always the feeling that you are addressing the listener/viewer personally when you demonstrate a particular organ. The details of the construction of the organ loft, the floor, the paint and the type of screws - fascinating!

What a magnificent instrument…and in upstate NY of all places! (Well, it’s Eastman, of course, so it makes sense, but how exciting.) I’m reminded of your demonstration of the organ in Arnstadt. There’s so much color and character. It’s fascinating to hear about how the physical demands of, for example, the pedal dimensions help to convey virtuosity in performances. Thank you so much for a truly wonderful video!

Thank you all concerned with this wonderful instrument. True king of instruments.

One of your best ever videos Balint! Such a fascinating instrument. Wonderful to have the two of you presenting. I especially enjoyed the alternating between your demonstrating and the information provided by David Higgs. Thank you so much for this.

A wonderful Bach instrument! If only we could hear some of Bach's music being played on it.......!

I was admiring the case as well as the sound. It's great that artisans still exist to do such work. (One of my uncles was a Master cabinet maker, who started his apprentice training at 10 in Sicily).

Beautifull !! My compliments !!!!

Fantastic demonstration; you never disappoint!

the facade is absolutely beautiful

Amazing Tour and Demo. Fascinating instrument. Thank you!

Beautiful instrument, nicely played!

I enjoy so much of the arrangement of this video, I can learn the music and enjoy the music at the same time !

Stupendo veramente bello e affascinante! Grazie! Mille likes

Great stuff! And with Christmas Bells.

Wonderful organ, these 2 last theme were absolutly amazing wow !

Nice tour of the organ. And one that I should go and see. Not that far away.

Thank you!

What a perfect sounding organ! =)

Thanks. Beautiful

That is one fine sounding organ, and so versatile! Will you use it for one of your "Bach: Complete Organ Works" concerts? Top notch production as usual. Great video all around.

Sensational!!!

Beautiful instrument and wonderful presentation. I'm a bit heavy so perfect for treading the bellows , lol

At the conference I attended when this organ was first dedicated, we learned that Iula is a contraction of Viola. In fact, in Lithuania, Iula is a nickname for a woman named Viola! The stop name goes back into the 17th c. although it was never common. I MAY be remembering this right: E. Compenius built a Jula around 1600.

Wundervolles Instrument!

Thank you so much for this video demonstration! I have never heard such a good organ in England, where I was born. Bach really does sound very good indeed on this instrument. The variety of stops is huge and they are all so nice. There are no automatic registration buttons, but who cares. It is still possible to change the sound with one hand or use an assistant. The clarity is excellent. I assume it has a tracker action?

I understood the particular shape of stops: need arms gym!

Celestial.

What an amazing instrument!! This sounds every bit as good as any European Baroque organ, maybe even better. The fact that you accurately copied it right down to the paint insures that it will sound and resonate exactly as intended. The huge stops are almost hilarious, but judging from the force required to open the 16' principal, those big handles are quite handy!😄👍👍 *EDIT:* OMG! I just got to the part with the manually operated bellows! They didn't miss a trick, did they?! As long as you have a couple willing bodies, you don't even need power to play this thing!!!😂 Absolutely amazing!

Can I see a "Bęben"- Polish XVII-XIX centaury "Tympan" there? (first from down of the left side of the registers) So beautiful and powerful instrument!

Since you are very close to Ithaca, I’m wondering if you would try out the Cornell Baroque organ modeled after the Schnitger organ in Berlin. I personally consider it to be also very suitable for pieces by Bach.

Praise God from whom all blessings flow

Great Unda Maris scene plase more of Abide with me, with this Stops

I like that design. I'm going to imagine heaven's messenger who play organ on the sacred space

So glad to see zero “Dislikes” so far. VARODI SZIA PUSZY!!

A beautiful instrument! I’m surprised how well the Anglican-style registration works on it - I suppose if you’re creative enough, a big enough organ can play anything.

Those stop"keys"you also see in Latvia, i.e. in Ugale, instrument built by Cornelius Rhaneus in 1701.

Damn... An American organ much better that the new European!!!! Organ voicing and tuning is spectacular.

Amazing!! When demonstrating the Man. I Plenum at 11:26, don't you in fact have the 16' Bourdun on?

How about an outline of the pieces played and excerpted for the benefit of those who might be new to the organ.

Is the "Great" Hohlflöte of wood or metal? I've seen both. Also, what is the construction of the "Positiv" Iula? The research I've done indicates it's usually of tapered metal (e.g., a Gemshorn or Spitzflöte). But what about on this specific instrument?

Wow! If only the organ reform movement had been based around the full variety of these central European instruments, instead of a few North German organs. Organ building and organ playing would have been the better for it. And for eclectic conceptions of the modern organ this kind of instrument gives better ingredients for mixing with for example French or English romantic influences. Whereas Schnitger and Cavaille-Coll really don't go naturally together!

At the beginning of the Second Manual demonstration, was that music from the Middle Ages/medieval period or Renaissance?

I think, the composers short before and around JS Bach would also sound wonderful at this organ: Buxtehude, Böhm, Bruhns, Pachelbel a.s.o.

At 21:!3 and after, I don't understand how any wind is getting to the pipes at all, because the ventil is closed.

What a great instrument I can hear that the tuning is mean tone but is it mean tone quarter comma or a modified system? Thank you for a great video.

Glorious chiff, and the tones that follow are wonderful, too. Beautiful instrument in both sound and appearance, though I'm no fan of the stop handles.

Since this pedalboard only goes up to D, where does the F major Toccata drop down an octave during the pedal passages?

thank you balint!

IULA is barbarized version of aulos (pipe, Greek). It imitates the rich sound of the Greek reed pipe (ironically using a flue). The aulos has a very narrow bore, fairly high pressure, and a captive double reed, not unlike a medieval shawm.

One real Bach Organ, you will find in the "Hauptkirche St. Katharinen" in Hamburg, Germany. On this Organ played Bach several times, e.g. as young man, 16 years old to meet the old Master Adam Reincken. Bach walked from Lüneburg to Hamburg to play for the great old master. 19 years after his first visit to Hamburg he came again to the Hanseatic city in November 1720 to apply for the position of organist at St. Jacob's Church, another of the 5 Main Churches "Hauptkirche". The organ, among other things the Groß-Posaune and a Principal 32’, aroused the admiration of Johann Sebastian Bach, who gave a legendary concert on the organ in 1720. Bach could "not praise enough" above all the "beauty and variety of sound" of the 16 reeds of this "in all pieces excellent work." Based on 520 original pipes preserved from Bach's time, this genuine "Bach organ" has been reconstructed so that today it sounds again as Bach heard it. By the way, this organ is the first organ with four manuals in the world.

18:35 Wow I really like this hymn. Is there anyone who knows the title of this?

In what manner is it tuned? Some variation of well tempered, or the equal temper? I hope a well tempered tuning, to give each key its special feeling. Very interesting video and fine instrument. I like that you even have worked on the pain, but that makes me hope the tuning is not too modern ... :)

It almost sounds like a Finnish-made organ!

👍 So thrilling...it makes me leak!

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is it tuned in Kirnberger II ?

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Those are the strangest drawknobs I have ever seen.

Who built this organ?

Although this organ can make a lot of noice which American like, but it has also the integrity of sound of the older instruments in Germany I like.

Wonderful instrument, but I had a bit of thinking what this means, an Authentic Bach Organ. I know about Schitger, or Hinz or Muller organ, but a Bach organ I haven't seen before and I've not heard he was an organ builder himself, lest be an authentic one...

As mentioned in the video, this instrument is a copy of Casparini's only surviving big organ in Vilnius, Lithuanie. It took several organ experts from US and Europe, months of study and examination, an organ builder from Sweden and over 2 milion US dollars to build it. Ironically, the original is still silent, unplayable, dismantled into pieces and forgotten. Main reason: lack of funds to restore it. How can you enjoy playing this copy knowing the gloomy fate of the original?

You should take a look at the organ in Örgryte Church in Gothenburg, Sweden. It’s also built together with GSO. The sound is heaven… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_German_baroque_organ_in_%C3%96rgryte_Nya_Kyrka. Besides, I think the organ in Naumburg built by Hildebrandt is closer to Bach’s ideal. He inspected the organ and considered Hildebrandt to be the best organ builder. But that’s my humble opinion. 🤷🏼‍♂️

A wonderful piece of organ archaeology and one which is rather eye-opening as all the supposed "Bach" Organs Ive experience from the 1960s and 1970s were terrible anaemic sounding squeak-boxes with lots of too-bright upperwork, lack of foundational tone and no colour; certainly no celeste ranks. Either messed up Victorian organs or something with a case from Ikea. So this was a nice surprise.

This organ is copy- the orginal is Adam Gottlob Casparinni, Dominikanische kirche (Heiliger Geist kirche), Vilnius, Lithuania. 1776.

Will you please conserve our culture while Europe is being destroyed right now!

How can that be called an authentic BACH ORGAn, when it was built only in recent years, of old timber .it still doesn't maker it a Bach organ.at best it is avery good facsimile which it is it is a nice organ with beautifull tonals and sound. .the trumpets are very good too.

So pity that the original instrument in Vilnius is still in such a deplorable condition....

So improvements are not good. This is the organ Bach played on so we should not improve the organ. We should not make keys a bit wider. Better tot physically stress the organist- Is that what pipe organs are for. Make people work with greater difficulty - that makes the organ sound better. 4" planks resonate. You are joking of course. Piano sound boards are THIN just in case you haven't noticed. You cannot play the French orchestral music on this and have it sound anything like the original. Beautiful case on the organ. Probably half the cost of the organ is in the case and gold leaf. Not event he screws are machine made. Incredible. Think of the tonal change between machine made and hand made screws. It must really be noticeable. Interesting - you have to brace against the case to pull the draw-knobs out. You traditionalists laughed at Wurlitzer organs. Here you are imitating sound effects that were common in Wurlitzer instruments. Ah well. Hypocrisy is acceptable when extolling the virtues of obsolescence. The organ has a nice sound. It is well suited for Baroque period music. It also has some nice sounding stops that lend well to soft or romantic music. But it has limits, aside from the physical differences. You seem to forget that the building (Which is resonant) and the pipes are what make the tone. This has been scientifically demonstrated time after time and argued about for at least 2 centuries. In the end it is not the chests, the action, the case, case pipes, width of keys, key cap material. If all comes down to the pipes, wind pressure, the voicer and building acoustics. These organs need goo resonance (and deserve) They are bright, clear and suited for Baroque music but they are limited in versatility. Render unto Schnitger that which is Schnitger's Wow - A hand forged key - definitely influences the tone of the organ Damn, that wind is so nicely unsteady and the Mixtures are a delight when they go out of tune from low pressure. Just wonderful. We should throw out all the technical improvements in modern organs and go back to the time when people were using candles in their homes and only the wealthy could ride horses. The chiffing is good. It makes it impossible to play legato on that stop. Very useful. That difference in the wood carving of the case must have a huge influence on the tone. Most builders strive for symetrical cases. Nice sound. The IULA is nothing more than a celeste. What is so special? Save the hate mail,