[Theme] The Organ Thread

[armando_m]

Santo Domingo church in Zacatecas México

Searching on the web found this:
The organ is from 1750's , it had fallen into disrepair, an 8 year effort to make it work again concluded in April 2015

[Airy]

Looks great; typical XVIIIth Spanish style, given the trompeteria.

I see that the upper labia of the front pipes have been decorated with devilish blue faces : can you upload a 100% crop of that detail please ?

[Akira]

Wow, Thomas, Airy and Armando, thanks for further additions of great organs!  I really enjoy different styles from different periods and countries.

my first organ photo - not very impressive though, but with a huge history
taken in "de Groote Kerk" Cape Town - corner stone laid in December 1700
The current organ has 5 917pipes, four "manuale" and pedals and a console with 102 registers. The longest pipe is 9,5m long with a circumference of 254mm and the shortest is 6mm long with a circumference of  2,5mm. Pipes were made of copper, tin and wood.

The natural resonance frequency of a 9.5m pipe is about 20Hz (assuming it is an open pipe), which roughly corresponds to E0!

[Frank Fremerey]

Frank, please see above. I finally was able to identify the church.

Thank you. Love to come back to this thread again and again!

[Frank Fremerey]

What you see is only the pipework of the "choir" organ, i.e. a smaller set of pipes located low at the gallery girder, in the back of the organist who faces the main body of pipes. The choir organ is played via the second manuel (out of three) in this case; usually (17th-18th centuries) it would be the first.

Klais just made and upgrade to our oldest organ in St. Johan Baptis & Petrus (Stiftskirche). Now you can play the main organ from several manuals via WLAN...

[Fons Baerken]

Organs without cases were fashionable between 1930 and 1960, approximately. Not such a good idea because the pipework gets exposed to dust and falling plaster, also because the sound easily gets dispersed in all directions. From a purely musical point of view, there are good and bad ones, and the manufacturing quality had more to suffer from the economic crises and wars than from the absence of casing. Still, such organs often get associated with "bad quality" without further checking, which is stupid.

This one, in Lille, is from 1950. It is a very solid organ with good tonal qualities, and one of the feww organs here that were recorded by first-rate organists (Gaston Litaize in that case, and several times).

What you see is only the pipework of the "choir" organ, i.e. a smaller set of pipes located low at the gallery girder, in the back of the organist who faces the main body of pipes. The choir organ is played via the second manuel (out of three) in this case; usually (17th-18th centuries) it would be the first.

Awesome shot

[Airy]

Fons, that's definitely pipe porn. But I enjoyed putting the grey pipes in relation with the grey pillars.

[Jakov Minić]

I found this image I took in the Dutch city of Deventer last year.
So I thought it would be nice to donate an organ of mine to this wonderful thread

[Frank Fremerey]

Jakov. This is obviously another Müller. Looks llike the sister of the one in Haarlem. Cool shot.

[armando_m]

Looks great; typical XVIIIth Spanish style, given the trompeteria.

I see that the upper labia of the front pipes have been decorated with devilish blue faces : can you upload a 100% crop of that detail please ?

Airy

here is the crop


right click - view image to see it at the actual size 2287x1286 pixels

I have not see it 100% before you noted this detail, good eye!

ps: just for bragging rights shot handheld, 25-85VR zoom, 85mm, 1/10 sec, f/5.6, ISO 6400

[Airy]

The first organ on which I intensively practised : choir organ of Verdun cathedral, France. Both with Df and high ISO, Tamron 45/1.8 at (f/4, 1/8s) and (f/8, 1/4s) handheld, respectively. Distortion left "as is", not worth correcting.

[armando_m]

Really like the subtle green tones of the tubes detail shot

[Airy]

Zinc pipes ! plus a mixed lighting (stained glass with magenta dominant from the left, cold daylight from the remote right, one incadescent lamp in the vicinity, etc.) hence the impossible neutral gray.

[Frank Fremerey]

How did you light this?

[Akira]

Beautiful "little" organ!  You should have been inspired and motivated!