[Theme] The Organ Thread

[simato73]

Another nice one, depicting a "humble" parish organ. Curtains are typically English. Organists there have the possibility to dig into their noses or fumble their iPhones (or the page-turning, stop-drawing lady) during services.

Nice. Technical appereance in a Normannic (?) church.

Simone: That IS a beauty!

Thank you all, it is indeed a lovely church.
Thomas: I think you are right, it is from Norman times. I have been told the church is mentioned in the Domesday Book.

[Bruno Schroder]

Totness, handheld, little light

[Eric Borgström]

The oldest organ in the world?? Hardly an organ anymore but the casing from 1370, later a vestry.

Is it the oldest casing? Historical Museum, Stockholm, Sweden

/Eric

[Frank Fremerey]

Oldest, biggest or whatever record claimed?

A nice reference point: http://database.organsociety.org/

They feature:

59,765 Pipe Organ entries
25,276 Photographs
18,258 Stoplists

[Frank Fremerey]

The organ in our main church (St Johan Baptist & Petrus) had to be rewired due to fire protection. They did that and made the organ playable from different manuals via WiFi also.

More important for us is that the Klais Workshop did reintonate the instrumet after rewiring. Since then it is probably one of the best sounding organs in Bonn. Fascinating, very strong & subtle!

Airy. You have to hear & play this instrument. This beauty is definitely not sleeping anymore!

[Frank Fremerey]

Next to impossible to get this organ in good light.
But today.
Bright winter sun outside, the Bonner Münster was lit by several windows and the organ was halfways visible
My picture is definitly better than the one at the maker site:
http://www.orgelbau-klais.com/m.php?tx=156
And it is only a handeld panorama at f/1.4!

[Airy]

The night office. Lille, St Martin d'Esquermes. Df, Sigma 24/1.4 @ 5.6, 100 ISO, 30". Camera was simply laid on altar.

[the solitaire]

Frank, we actually have our very own organ builder here in Kevelaer. Have not contacted them yet, to find out if an excursion is possible though

[Frank Fremerey]

He, Buddy. In Germany there are nearly 500 Organ Workshops (and 500 choirs too). This is the highest density in the world.

I hope you will document the weldings skills at the Kevelar workshop!

Klais though is very special. He build organs into the most prominent buildings errected in the past 30 years and planet wide. He is a genious on the business side but his organs seem to have a special quality well accepted by churches and secular venues worldwide

[Airy]

Porto (Portugal), S. Nicolau. Df, 105/2.5 AI @f/4 ; 1/125s ; 2800 ISO

[Airy]

And nearby S. Francisco chapel. 4000 ISO this time.

[Airy]

Leeds, St Anne cathedral. The other side. Df, 28/1.8 G

[Akira]

Airy, that looks really unique!  I wonder the effect of the large openings on the pipes.  Does the part of a pipe with the opening work as a sound reflector to project the note of the pipe to a certain aimed direction?

[Airy]

These are quite common sounding front pipes, the shot being taken from behind. For them to also fulfill their decorative role, they have been lengthened beyond what is needed for the sound (1/2 wave length). The non-sounding part is a succession of holes on the non-visible side. The shot has been taken very close, from the organ gallery.

[Akira]

Thanks for the explanation.  That makes sense.