Skinner 32' Bombardes playing on 15" pressure or higher with their weighted tongues and heavy wooden resonators are perfect for churches with dry acoustics and poor bass resonance. 32' Bombardes of the French type only sound good in live acoustics and they provide magnificent, dramatic effects in the right place and in the appropriate organ style. Full-length resonators are essential in either example.
Skinner 32' Bombardes playing on 15" pressure or higher with their weighted tongues and heavy wooden resonators are perfect for churches with dry acoustics and poor bass resonance. 32' Bombardes of the French type only sound good in live acoustics and they provide magnificent, dramatic effects in the right place and in the appropriate organ style. Full-length resonators are essential in either example.
I heard a new 32' bombarde last weekend at the dedication of the new Fritts Op. 29 baroque tracker III/48 at St. Philip Presby in Houston, the first of his in Texas. The company is in Washington state. There is a whole series on youtube on internal construction and voicing. Search here for "Fritts organ build" and you will pick it up.
Speaking of truck stopping, in Austin, Texas, after exiting a freeway ramp and going to the bottom of a hill, there's a "no Jake-Brake" sign. It's a little late, isn't it?
The Wanamaker organ has a walk-in console about the size of a VW Bus, but that's another story.
The single pipe reminds me of a diesel powered coal truck hitting his jake-brake coming off a WVa mountain top. It is amazing how, in concert with the other pipes, it sounds so majestic.
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Skinner 32' Bombardes playing on 15" pressure or higher with their weighted tongues and heavy wooden resonators are perfect for churches with dry acoustics and poor bass resonance. 32' Bombardes of the French type only sound good in live acoustics and they provide magnificent, dramatic effects in the right place and in the appropriate organ style. Full-length resonators are essential in either example.
SilverlakeDehners 10 months ago
Skinner 32' Bombardes playing on 15" pressure or higher with their weighted tongues and heavy wooden resonators are perfect for churches with dry acoustics and poor bass resonance. 32' Bombardes of the French type only sound good in live acoustics and they provide magnificent, dramatic effects in the right place and in the appropriate organ style. Full-length resonators are essential in either example.
SilverlakeDehners 10 months ago
Who said anything about half length? Full length is much better.
ThirtyTwoFoot 1 year ago
HAHAHAH i had my headphones up a little too loud..........
gwpritchrd 1 year ago
21300st!
engelbertschoormans 1 year ago
I heard a new 32' bombarde last weekend at the dedication of the new Fritts Op. 29 baroque tracker III/48 at St. Philip Presby in Houston, the first of his in Texas. The company is in Washington state. There is a whole series on youtube on internal construction and voicing. Search here for "Fritts organ build" and you will pick it up.
retsoftware 1 year ago
Speaking of truck stopping, in Austin, Texas, after exiting a freeway ramp and going to the bottom of a hill, there's a "no Jake-Brake" sign. It's a little late, isn't it?
The Wanamaker organ has a walk-in console about the size of a VW Bus, but that's another story.
retsoftware 1 year ago
ahahah
poopingeneral 2 years ago
Sounds a little flat to me. Some minor
tweaking should do the trick. :>)
brady1002 2 years ago
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What a great clip!
NNomad 2 years ago
Less weight, open shallots and low wind pressures creates a much more exciting 32' sound.
ThirtyTwoFoot 2 years ago
@ThirtyTwoFoot ... and half-length resonators too? Yeah, right!
oddrocketboy2 1 year ago
What does the thing on the left side do?
kiwiplant 2 years ago
That's the pneumatic starter. It gets the tongue moving quicker than just the movement of air. The bottom 6 have them.
oddrocketboy2 2 years ago
How does it work?
Pushes against the "reed" termed "tongue"(?) and, when pulled away, the reed springing out initiates the vibrating sooner?
Clever.
Good that they have ports to see the mechanism.
I wanted to make a 32' Diaphone wood cover out of plexiglass so it could be viewed operating.
Unfortunately, Denver University's Buchtel Chapel burned to the ground shortly before the rank was to be removed.
What orgen has walk-in windchests?
robertgift 2 years ago
Austin Organs have walk-in windchests. Austin Organ, Erie, Pennsylvania
KCMDButcher42 2 years ago 2
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lokalexi1 2 years ago
Excellent!
engelbertschoormans 3 years ago
Cool!
kontrabombarde32 3 years ago
WOW! What a wonderful sight! Thanks for showing us this on video!
latribe 3 years ago
Wow!!!!!
ChalieChaplin 3 years ago
The single pipe reminds me of a diesel powered coal truck hitting his jake-brake coming off a WVa mountain top. It is amazing how, in concert with the other pipes, it sounds so majestic.
accousticdecay 3 years ago 7
I heard Barnes, the famlous organ builder say once when demonstrating a similar pipe to the congegation... "now that pipe is a real air cutter".
JoePeterzak 3 years ago