The Old Hundredth www.thejoyofmusic.org

Organist Diane Bish plays this great tune on the largest organ in Austria at the St. Florian Monastery of St. Florian, Austria.

Song also familiar as:
The Doxology
Praise God From Whom all Blessings Flow
All People That on Earth Do Dwell
and many more...

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[Jacobre156]

What are the white switch-looking devices above the stop tabs? What are they used for? I have never seen these on an organ before, except on youtube.

[bishfan]

I've often wondered that myself. Anybody know?

[MegaDani141]

@bishfan They are the old "setzer-buttons".

Back than, there were not that much possibilitys.

I was there in summer last year.

Now they have a new Console, and there are the normal buttons now.

Greetings from Austria:

MegaDani141

[sehtdragon]

@bishfan I -think- that they might be sub-octave, super-octave and unison-off couplers, since there seems to be three for each rank. If so, that's one complex organ! I've played organs with octave and unison-off couplers, but they've only been by division, not by rank. I may well be wrong but that's my first guess.

[cjbusboi]

@OrganCat LOL!!!

[cjbusboi]

@PipeOrganistSC Thank-you! I was very curious about what those switches were. That sure does sound confusing and quite complicated...but very interesting!

[r0g3r5m1th]

Fantastic,I will now need 10 mins to let the shivers running down my spine stop,then I will play it again,thanks for posting and Diane Bish is surely the best Lady Organist (or should that be Organess)ever ,

[PipeOrganistSC]

@bishfan YES! I know. They are an old form of memory combinations. As you can see, there are four of them above each stop. There are also four memory pistons on this organ. So, if you wanted to, say, use an 8' trompette on the first verse but not the second verse, you would push the first white button in above the trompette so that when you pressed the corresponding thumb piston, the 8' trompette would be used. So you basically have to reset them often, and it's a very confusing system.

[OrganCat]

Those are hooks where the parking valet hangs the congregation's keys.

[moproducer]

What an amazing "amen" at the end...and Diane is a beautiful as ever.

[praisethelord333]

and still wearing silver shining clothes lol its so cool! and good played!

[mainstreetorganist]

This arrangement is in The Majestic Sounds of Worship By: Albin Whitworth