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Walt Disney Concert Hall Organ - a glimpse of the great instrument

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Uploaded by on Apr 2, 2009

Phil Smith, organist and WDCH Organ Conservator, gives a trifle interview of the magnificent instrument.

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  • itachisharkak, many apologies I accidently clicked on remove rather than reply to your comment.

    In answer to your question of this unique and exquisite organ pipe facade, the curved wooden pipes (the frenchfries as most describe but I must tell you its a work of art as well as fully speaking pipes) are the 32' Violonbasse and 32' Contre Basson ranks :) Love this instrument!

  • Hey theres Phil!! I've worked on this organ

  • I love Phil, he's such a sweetie and funny :) Our church has hired him to play with our choir a couple of Bach cantata's now. :)

  • There are no tin/zinc alloys in organs (if that's even possible)!

  • Lol, no you are indeed correct. Mind you, I believe it is the editor(s) at CNN cutting this video together that wouldn't know what Phil is talking about re the metals. The audio bites and video was filmed on location so it's obvious his interview was cut and reduced for editing purposes. But thank you for pointing it out ;)

  • ...and this is a concert hall owned by Disney?

  • No, it's owned by the City of Los Angeles. It's so named because the major donor, Lillian Disney, named it after her late husband, in honor of his contribution and passion for performance arts.

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  • @Shogunmiyuchan Google "Organ Historical Society" and use the database (find it on the left-hand menu). It often has stop-lists and information about many organs.

  • Wow! Is that Chelsea Chen?!?

  • Organ was blown apart with a stick of dynomite

  • @Shogunmiyuchan The AGO magazine did quite a fine article on this instrument when it was first installed--including a complete stoplist. Search on the phrase "walt disney concert hall organ" and the link you need should come up without any problem.

  • Is there a stoplist/specification list somewhere??

  • from a distance... it looks like a "super-size" container of McDonald's fries!!! Too Funny!

  • Kind of has that Aeolian Skinner sound

  • pls tell us who built this organ.

  • BRILLIANT THANKS.

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