Searching Organ Students- Traveling Organ- Part 1

[paulj0557]

Yes, this is certainly great. Now something I suggest as well is encourage kids to go home and watch some videos on all sorts of organ playing. I compiled a youtube play list entitled:

'Organ Tunes even Organ Haters will love!'

In my play list these are lots of of videos demonstrating lots of different types of music and lots of different makes of organs.

I also encourage your students to go home and look at their craigslist ads for organs. They are SO SO cheap! Explain designs- aka ORGAN LIST.

[steamrocks]

Quite an effort hauling the organ and speaker systems around like you describe. Kinda like a modern day Reggie Foort.

Introducing organ to youngsters is a great educational experience. Most of the music they listen to has no keyboard parts at all, yet believe it or not, much of their music can be transcribed to the theater organ. That would be the next step in their introduction, the organ playing music on their terms.

[KawhackitaRag]

@steamrocks it would be nice if a few of the recording studios around the country where "indie" bands like to record (those who don't record at home, that is!) could be equipped with small-to-medium-size pipe organs of some kind, whether classical or theatre. I believe this would help spur the creativity of these musicians... there are some pretty good bands out there and some of them have used organ (usually sampled, or electronic) on their recordings.

[Theyoungorganist01]

This is great! is enything like this going to happen in Britain?

[m4dan]

I'm surprised this worked. My school is lucky enough to own the only publicly playing theatre pipe organ on Long Island yet half of the students are way too ignorant and hate the thing. I'm glad that this at least worked.

[Brandotuomikoski]

i am in high school, and i think this would be cool to have for a day there. can i like set up something for this to happen?

[earlph]

Events like these should be worldwide !! Lets keepp the KING OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

A L I V E ! The host name VANDERLEE is original from the netherlands .. same as where I come from though living in the Philippines. Her it is a SAD story ONLY two Theatre organs on 92 million people. An Allen 317 ( newer model then on this video )and my Rodgers Olympic 333 # 34418.

Keep on that GREAT WORK !!

[acoustics101]

I commend you for what you are doing. If we don't reach our young people now, we may lose the theatre pipe organ, as well as the pipe organ in general, to future generations.

I put on Powerpoints, along with actual pipe demonstrations for the Music professor at two of the music classes at our college. I've even done one of my presentations for KCTCS at the fist New Horizons Conference in Lexington. Hearing actual working pipes get a lot of attention!

[rmaccrea]

Great program! The organ is the KING of instruments, and what a shame most people associate it with only horror or church music. It is the most versatile instrument ever, and masters any style of music period.