John Philip Sousa - Stars and Stripes Forever; Orgel: Cameron Carpenter (www.cameron-carpenter.com); Trinity Church Wall Street (www.trinitywallstreet.org); 05. Juli 2007
I'm always astounded by the amount of precision & coordination organists must display....Sometimes I half expect to see their heads explode. I wonder what a brain scan would show while they're playing....
@sbergman27 Right you are! I'd neglected to add in the delay for an electropneumatic organ action. With an electric or a tracker action the valve opens when the key is pressed, and the delay the organist hears is the pipe's time to speak plus the travel time for sound. For electropneumatic there is the additional time for the air in the pneumatic control tubes, which cannot be faster than the speed of sound in air. Genuine musicians (such as Cameron) know how to deal with it.
@amazing763 I've only played on a pipe organ once in my life, many years ago when I was very young. And I will never forget how disconcerting that time delay was! Though I suspect there might have been more too it than that. I'm not sure the compressors, or whatever, were up to pressure. The notes took a long time to build up to full volume.
I want to wrap my lips around his organ!
VD54K 23 hours ago
I'm always astounded by the amount of precision & coordination organists must display....Sometimes I half expect to see their heads explode. I wonder what a brain scan would show while they're playing....
7Jaegermeister 1 week ago
Wonderful, but barking mad. :-) What a great entertainer. Thanks.
RevdRichard 1 week ago
terrible !
Joe24Law 1 week ago
Don't know what to say except Holy Crap! This guy is a real master on the king of instruments!!
Dusty754 3 weeks ago
this guy is a symphonic !!!
Freitas - PORTO ALEGRE - RS - BRASIL
FREITASARTES 3 weeks ago
Wow....this guy is like the Tom Brier of the organ world!
Ragtimer95 4 weeks ago
I just watched this again. Incredible. Absolutely incredible.
sbergman27 1 month ago
@sbergman27 Right you are! I'd neglected to add in the delay for an electropneumatic organ action. With an electric or a tracker action the valve opens when the key is pressed, and the delay the organist hears is the pipe's time to speak plus the travel time for sound. For electropneumatic there is the additional time for the air in the pneumatic control tubes, which cannot be faster than the speed of sound in air. Genuine musicians (such as Cameron) know how to deal with it.
amazing763 1 month ago
@amazing763 I've only played on a pipe organ once in my life, many years ago when I was very young. And I will never forget how disconcerting that time delay was! Though I suspect there might have been more too it than that. I'm not sure the compressors, or whatever, were up to pressure. The notes took a long time to build up to full volume.
sbergman27 1 month ago