"This is the Feast..." it's a part of one of the settings of the Lutheran liturgy, and it also appears in some other denominational hymnals in the Easter section.
Nice hymn playing, nice sounding instrument. We have a 1909 Hinners of similar specification here in Oklahoma City, the oldest extant instrument in the state in its original location. Since it's presently unplayable, I've used your recording to help drum up support and volunteers for a restoration effort! Good work, bud!
Fat...thin...who cares? You do a fine job of showing what this organ can do. Thanks for the great tempo and phrasing! You don't seem like an "organ-snob." Keep up the good work!
I think you play very well; and you prove you love hymns. I wish someone could buy people like us (poor people with some music to share) decent cameras. The Hinners is a fine organ in a dry acoustic. An honest sound.
Perhaps someone with a few clams to spare ought to start a fund to help folks like us with our camera problem. I've decided that I will shoot my next video with my sister's digital camera, which is quite a bit nicer than mine... hopefully I'll have something to show y'all soon!
I have an ex- who supports my debt. I am experimenting now with a Sony DVD recorder that is going out of fashion. I took back a Canon that used tapes. I hope you get the clams, but ask around about audio! Everyone is concerned about video - for organists it is critical. I hope your next turns out nice.
I like setting one better, i grew up presbyterian, and took an organist job on a bad electric organ at a baptist church, their service was at 11 am, so attended the local lutheran church for the 8:30 am service..... very good, especially, "A Mighty Fortress" Martin Luther would be very proud.... keep up the work... I am a young musician, and enjoy watching the more experienced
Agreed - but the church I used to play for only liked setting one, so I've got most of it committed to memory. I just watched hiredcowmilker's videos... I presume you mean I look similar to the bloke who was playing organ, and not the kid who was shaking his "thang" ;-)
this organ reminds me of my parish organ (a 1896 schulke 16 rank) with the stops and the shape of the keys. a very nice sound but no reeds either. our 'Bellows signal' is disconnected too.
What INSANELY beautiful sound that organ has! It reminds me of the Hutchings organs and Hook & Hastings organs that we have up in Massachusetts. The sound of the 1860's-1910's American trackers is just divine. Those guys knew how to voice! Great job, man! Oh, and "In The Bleak Midwinter" is a great selection for the kind of voicing this organ has. Thanks so much!
Glad you enjoyed it - I hope to make more recordings of this little gem in the future with better equipment. I fully agree with you on the sound of the instruments from this era. This organ is so perfectly voiced, you can hardly complain about its size (clocking in at a mere nine ranks, all flues).
Well, this was made in the days when people poured their time and energy into making quality products--rather than making disposable products to feed the modern American mentality of "bigger and newer is better". It's the 'quality vs. quantity' things. Were it my organ, however, I would put in an 8' manual reed--probably an oboe.
Ah, a man after my own heart! There is an extra knob in the Great terraces - a now-unused "Bellows Signal" to alert the organ pumper. I've always said that the only thing this organ might need was an 8' oboe, attached to that now obsolete knob.
I once played at a church in New Hampshire with a late-1800's Hutchings organ. It, like the old console on the Hook & Hastings on which I took all my lessons, had that "Bellows Signal" stop. The Hutchings I mention was in museum condition; it even still had its original manual-pump bellows system. That stop, when pulled back-and-forth rapidly, waved a flag in the bellows chamber. Cool, huh? :-)
Unfortunately, nothing quite so grand happens when you pull the "Bellows Signal" on this Hinners. It makes two blocks of wood clack together towards the back of the case where the handle for the bellows used to stick out ;-)
Loved your video. John L. Hinners was my husband's great-grandfather. They at one time had a waiting list of over 3000 for one of their organs. The depression ended the company in 1936. Hinners studied under Mason and Hamlin (organ division) in Boston after the Civil War.
Thanks for that delicious tidbit of Hinners history, horsemom07. I've always loved this Hinners organ, and I've always wanted to learn more about the Hinners firm, but it's tough to find information about them. I'd like to hear more, if you or your husband are willing to correspond.
It does seem to have a Hook and Hastings flair to it. I used to play a small 6-rank H&H in the Lady Chapel of Holy Name Church in Providence, RI (like the organ in your video, there are no reeds). There's a mongrel organ in the main church there - 18 ranks of H&H upstairs, and another 9 ranks of odds and ends put together by Bill Laws Jr. in the chancel. Both cases are controlled by one console downstairs.
First and last numbers: the top keyboard (swell), we had the full resources drawn: 8' Violin Diapason, 8' Lieblich Gedeckt, 8' Salicional, and 4' Flute Dolce. On the bottom keyboard (great) we had the 8' Melodia, and the 4' Principal drawn with the Sw-to-Gt 4' coupler on. Pedal stop was the lonely 16' Bourdon. For the quieter number in the middle: just the 8' flutes on each manual with the super coupler, lonely pedal bourdon.
Favourited this video few years ago. I love it, but I dont know exactly why. ^^
I can play the piano but I want to learn to play the organ.
Kaonashido 1 year ago
name to this song ? :D
Murta1991 3 years ago
The songs I ran through are such:
"This is the Feast"
"In the Bleak Midwinter"
"A Mighty Fortress"
Thanks for your interest!
posaune16 3 years ago
What was the name of the first hynm you played I want to look it up. Loved It!
PerrrfictKats 3 years ago
"This is the Feast..." it's a part of one of the settings of the Lutheran liturgy, and it also appears in some other denominational hymnals in the Easter section.
posaune16 3 years ago
Loved it! Many Thanks!
PerrrfictKats 3 years ago
Nice hymn playing, nice sounding instrument. We have a 1909 Hinners of similar specification here in Oklahoma City, the oldest extant instrument in the state in its original location. Since it's presently unplayable, I've used your recording to help drum up support and volunteers for a restoration effort! Good work, bud!
praecentor1 3 years ago
Fat...thin...who cares? You do a fine job of showing what this organ can do. Thanks for the great tempo and phrasing! You don't seem like an "organ-snob." Keep up the good work!
Father J
voxceleste8 3 years ago 2
I like to think I'm not an organ-snob - tho I am hopelessly devoted to the organ as THE instrument for the accompaniment of the sacred liturgy :-)
posaune16 2 years ago
I think you play very well; and you prove you love hymns. I wish someone could buy people like us (poor people with some music to share) decent cameras. The Hinners is a fine organ in a dry acoustic. An honest sound.
subwaysleuth 4 years ago
Perhaps someone with a few clams to spare ought to start a fund to help folks like us with our camera problem. I've decided that I will shoot my next video with my sister's digital camera, which is quite a bit nicer than mine... hopefully I'll have something to show y'all soon!
posaune16 4 years ago
I have an ex- who supports my debt. I am experimenting now with a Sony DVD recorder that is going out of fashion. I took back a Canon that used tapes. I hope you get the clams, but ask around about audio! Everyone is concerned about video - for organists it is critical. I hope your next turns out nice.
subwaysleuth 4 years ago
Worthy is Christ, the Lamb who was slain,
Whose blood set us free to be people of God.
This is the feast of victory for our God,
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
Praise be to God and to our Lord and Savior Jesus!
Thank you for sharing this posaune.
Peace be with you.
schmarcie 4 years ago 2
And also with you, schmarcie...
posaune16 4 years ago
the first song is so, really, so beautiful! i love it, the way you are playing it. good
kuethejunior 4 years ago
Thanks... it's one of my favourites, tho I wish more churches would save it for Eastertide.
posaune16 4 years ago
I like setting one better, i grew up presbyterian, and took an organist job on a bad electric organ at a baptist church, their service was at 11 am, so attended the local lutheran church for the 8:30 am service..... very good, especially, "A Mighty Fortress" Martin Luther would be very proud.... keep up the work... I am a young musician, and enjoy watching the more experienced
mbmale21 4 years ago 2
*bows* Thankee...
posaune16 4 years ago
I like setting 2 better. Have you seen any of hiredcowmilker's videos? You two look similar.
cyorgan 4 years ago
Agreed - but the church I used to play for only liked setting one, so I've got most of it committed to memory. I just watched hiredcowmilker's videos... I presume you mean I look similar to the bloke who was playing organ, and not the kid who was shaking his "thang" ;-)
posaune16 4 years ago
shaking his "thang"? yeah I do mean the bloke playing the organ. That's my friend Ryan.
cyorgan 4 years ago
The most recent video on hiredcowmilker's account is some kid dancing around - hence, shaking his "thang."
posaune16 4 years ago
must've given you the wrong screename.
cyorgan 4 years ago
this organ reminds me of my parish organ (a 1896 schulke 16 rank) with the stops and the shape of the keys. a very nice sound but no reeds either. our 'Bellows signal' is disconnected too.
arkenstone21 4 years ago
thanks a lot
gummiwipfel 4 years ago
what is the name of the first song?
gummiwipfel 4 years ago
"This is the Feast" text is based on Revelation 5: 12-13, music by Richard Hillert.
posaune16 4 years ago
do you have notes which you can sent to me?
bornrain 4 years ago
What INSANELY beautiful sound that organ has! It reminds me of the Hutchings organs and Hook & Hastings organs that we have up in Massachusetts. The sound of the 1860's-1910's American trackers is just divine. Those guys knew how to voice! Great job, man! Oh, and "In The Bleak Midwinter" is a great selection for the kind of voicing this organ has. Thanks so much!
piercetheorganist 5 years ago
Glad you enjoyed it - I hope to make more recordings of this little gem in the future with better equipment. I fully agree with you on the sound of the instruments from this era. This organ is so perfectly voiced, you can hardly complain about its size (clocking in at a mere nine ranks, all flues).
posaune16 5 years ago
Well, this was made in the days when people poured their time and energy into making quality products--rather than making disposable products to feed the modern American mentality of "bigger and newer is better". It's the 'quality vs. quantity' things. Were it my organ, however, I would put in an 8' manual reed--probably an oboe.
piercetheorganist 5 years ago
Ah, a man after my own heart! There is an extra knob in the Great terraces - a now-unused "Bellows Signal" to alert the organ pumper. I've always said that the only thing this organ might need was an 8' oboe, attached to that now obsolete knob.
posaune16 5 years ago
I once played at a church in New Hampshire with a late-1800's Hutchings organ. It, like the old console on the Hook & Hastings on which I took all my lessons, had that "Bellows Signal" stop. The Hutchings I mention was in museum condition; it even still had its original manual-pump bellows system. That stop, when pulled back-and-forth rapidly, waved a flag in the bellows chamber. Cool, huh? :-)
piercetheorganist 5 years ago
Unfortunately, nothing quite so grand happens when you pull the "Bellows Signal" on this Hinners. It makes two blocks of wood clack together towards the back of the case where the handle for the bellows used to stick out ;-)
posaune16 5 years ago
Loved your video. John L. Hinners was my husband's great-grandfather. They at one time had a waiting list of over 3000 for one of their organs. The depression ended the company in 1936. Hinners studied under Mason and Hamlin (organ division) in Boston after the Civil War.
horsemom07 4 years ago
Thanks for that delicious tidbit of Hinners history, horsemom07. I've always loved this Hinners organ, and I've always wanted to learn more about the Hinners firm, but it's tough to find information about them. I'd like to hear more, if you or your husband are willing to correspond.
posaune16 4 years ago
It does seem to have a Hook and Hastings flair to it. I used to play a small 6-rank H&H in the Lady Chapel of Holy Name Church in Providence, RI (like the organ in your video, there are no reeds). There's a mongrel organ in the main church there - 18 ranks of H&H upstairs, and another 9 ranks of odds and ends put together by Bill Laws Jr. in the chancel. Both cases are controlled by one console downstairs.
BMP
christusvincit 4 years ago
I am guessing the Great also has a 8' Diapason and a 8' Dulciana? Typical of organs from era.
idok00 5 years ago
The Great has four stops - the 8' Open, 8' Melodia, 8' Dulciana, and 4' Principal.
posaune16 5 years ago
Great! Would be nice to hear some of the other stops. Thanks for the look.
coolumax 5 years ago
I'll take the time to record a snippet of each stops and a few quieter combinations next time I make it out there.
posaune16 5 years ago
What stops did you use if I may ask? I know nothing about a pipe organ at all.
awash2002 5 years ago
First and last numbers: the top keyboard (swell), we had the full resources drawn: 8' Violin Diapason, 8' Lieblich Gedeckt, 8' Salicional, and 4' Flute Dolce. On the bottom keyboard (great) we had the 8' Melodia, and the 4' Principal drawn with the Sw-to-Gt 4' coupler on. Pedal stop was the lonely 16' Bourdon. For the quieter number in the middle: just the 8' flutes on each manual with the super coupler, lonely pedal bourdon.
posaune16 5 years ago
Ok thanks that helped me out a lot
awash2002 5 years ago