Charles - nice setup and well done on the economical build! Can you post a link to that big sample set please?

Wow! You’re amazing Charles. Well done ❤

I very much enjoyed Daniel. He is good.

That Kracow sampleset may be one of my favorites. I’m surprised to see you’re selling the organ, but then again I’m sure there will be lots of great organs to play at your new school :]

That a cool organ and like the piano too. My name is Dylan Price I am 19 years old and I play the kimball organ and a Yamaha piano.

Very interesting, you are doing the same stuff as I'd do if I was born generations later. Please slow down the camera pans.

Yet another Noachian screamer. There’s more to organs than screams. Perhaps it’s the microphone placement?

Keep the camera steady please although I read that this is the movement-edited (for the better) version. But, diziness aside, the gentleman in the blue shirt was enjoying himself as much as I enjoyed listening to the organ's capacity through his hands and feet and then came along another blue (Tshirt) individual who also knew what he was doing. The organ's place in the future seems assured.

Horrible video

I’m an organist and a distant cousin of George Washington!

While this organ is obviously great for French rep., wouldn't it maybe be more accurate to describe it as some sort of English-French hybrid?

I'm supposing that the 8' Bourdon-Harmonic is a stopped Bourdon in the bass and becomes open harmonic pipes in the treble.

Where have the two of you studied? You're both already amazingly skilled organists at such a young age!

CapitOl Hill. Just sayin

Wonderful instrument!!!

I apologize for my lack of attention to the informality of eating pizza in a place of worship, and I will surely be more mindful next time I have an organ appointment that aligns with lunch time. As for the turbulence of the "camera/photo apparatus", here is the same video, but with the turbulent bits cut out so that you can enjoy without "headaches" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mLCXqMaTxMe1mXU.html

Managed to watch for 2 or 3 minutes but the camera work was giving me a headache. Try watchinf some pf the pieces by scott brothers duo and learn how to film.

I have serviced this organ in the past. It has some great aspects and some slightly less than great aspects. The workmanship is very good and the layout for servicing is good. The tonal aspect comes across as raw. I blame this on the acoustically dead room. The handsome case is made of many free floating panels which is a normal cabinet technique, but they often rattle during winter months with the overly dry forced air heating system. It has been a battle to keep the rattles down since day one. Another case building technique should have been used. The power the organ puts out could do well in a larger room. The old organ was a quirky instrument built for a DC hotel. It was moved to a church in AA county MD. Though a tonal design of the 1920s, had many nice sounds and in this dead room came across well.

I'm sorry, but this is unwatchable because of the camera's too rapid movements. I tried not looking at the screen, but without a dedicated microphone the sound changes too. Once you've ironed out the technical I really do look forward to seeing your future travels.

Great organ. But what made you think eating pizza in a church was ok? Dude. Show some respect.

my favorite character was the boat guy

The chamade is hideously out of tune...

As a teen I lived about 8 miles south of this church. George Washington lived in several places in northern Virginia during his lifetime. He and his father actually helped start this church and George attended worship there as well as another church in Alexandria. On one of my visits back home in 2019 I spent several days on the grounds of this church, studying the graves and other significant information. Due to the pandemic, the building was not open, unfortunately. The organ is magnificent with great sound. Thanks for the demonstration.

0:45 in case anyone was wondering that's "Final" opus 27.7 from Marcel Dupre's Seven Pieces, though my personal favorite from that suite is 27.4 "Carillon" and 2:54 the sound of just the foundations is so so sweet :)

Pretty tough to beat a Cavaille-Coll organ. This is not a Cavaille-Coll but it comes pretty close. Well done.

What an amazing organ in a fabulous acoustic. The French voicing is just awesome and so was the playing by Daniel Carroll - what a rising star! You look to have had a great visit, Charles, though after such a 'beefy' instrument . . . sushi would fail to satisfy my hunger pangs! Bravo!

The 2004 Storey rebuild of this original Noack organ has resulted in a more eclectic instrument that sounds glorious in this beautiful church. I very much enjoyed your demonstration of its tonal potential, Charles, and it was good to also hear your friends enjoying the experience of playing the instrument: bravo! (I'm not sure why the upload finishes with you overhanging the balcony so precariously? I hope it wasn't in preparation for trying to steal those gorgeous Gedeckt pipes you were coveting!)

I haven't played Geo Washington's organ but I have played with Napoleon's organ (!) in a small church on Sydney's South Head.

Please learn how to use the camera/photo apparatus.

Eating Pizza in Cologne cathedral leads to being kicked out.

Magnificent instrument. Such beautiful sounds. I thought the great division on French instruments was the bottom keyboard. I must have misunderstood

Love this organ. I will visit this church next time I’m in DC. Also a tip of the hat to the organist who’s filling in. Looking forward to hearing George Washington’s organ tomorrow. Thanks for these great posts.

such a lush sound, I love the little diddy David played at 1:45. He seems very fluent with this organ.

Ok, 4:44 is awesome

That is one incredible instrument!

Fairfax County, Virginia. My home county. Drove past that church all the time. Never been. It's been enjoyable seeing you play the organs in a number of places I am familiar with but never been in. Except for the Basilica Shrine which I was in a lot in Law School at CUA.

The ending was a cliffhanger....lmao

Jean-Baptiste Dupont improvisation showcasing the tutti at Toulouse, St Sernin in this video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rNKmitSLzMrYqYk.htmlfeature=shared&t=1146

Charles, I am so happy you are able to enjoy this beautiful instrument. I served as organist at Bush Hill when it was installed. The congregation fully embraced this project and supported alterations to the space to improve the acoustic qualities. Best wishes as you continue your studies at BYU. Would love to hear you play in the near future. Melvin Goodwyn

Your music knowledge and sense is so apparent when you do these demonstrations. I hear patterns that so perfectly fit the sounds, and key and chord progressions that less talented keyboard musicians never attempt. Finally there is your ability to improvise in any style, not to forget the master works you’ve already learned and committed to memory. I sincerely hope you will have time to continue posting to your channel!

I can see why you are enthusiastic about this modest spec Letourneau organ as it certainly has gorgeous voicing with some wonderfully fiery reeds in an acoustic with a little bit of give when the building is empty. Always good to hear you play, Charles - the organ can clearly cope with all genres of music: bravo!

I’ve been there! I love the stained glass. Also, surprisingly good acoustics. Lovely church, great people.

Once you’ve demo’d every organ in the world, you’ve gotta do a detailed tier list ranking each one

The American Organist should go to Freiberg in Breisgau ( Bavaria) and ponder the FOUR Organs in the Munster before "waxing' poetic about two instruments in one recital space !

@5:28 this sounds a little like the jazz Hammond technique called “squabbling.”

fun to see the tourist perspective of my hometown

What’s the stoplist of this little organ?

What I really love about this condensed video recording of your European tour, Charles, is its honesty. No pretence about being anything other than just your genuine self - a teenager having a great adventure in countries you were visiting for the first time. You clearly had a lot of fun and enjoyed some good company with friends who will have made this trip special and something that you will treasure when you revisit these memories in years to come. I hope when you're respectable and middle-aged and caught in the rut of life, you'll see how precious your teenage years were and remember how wonderful it was to be spontaneous and up for anything. As someone who must be about fifty years older than you, I watched your 'antics' with delight and, if I'm honest, a little bit of envy as believe me, life passes more quickly than we often acknowledge and making the most of every moment is really what it's all about (so when you recognised near the end that you can sleep at home but only had that chance to visit Munich the once, you could sense that was an opportunity sadly missed). I'm glad you had such a good time and, as you worked so hard to contribute to the cost of engaging in such a great experience, you truly deserved to get to Europe - and I'm sure you'll visit many other fabulous places in the world as well in the years to come. If you'd come across me on your travels and asked if I was coming to the concert, it would have been an affirmative. Excellent. And . . . bravo! (Oh - I've never seen so much food featured in a vlog before. You made me hungry!)

ok triple G is kinda wild