Jelani Eddington & Rob Richards at Pasadena Civic Auditorium

Jelani Eddington & Rob Richards perform Richard Rodgers' "Slaughter On Tenth Avenue" on the 5-manual Moller theatre pipe organ and 5-manual Walker digital theatre organ.

This performance was the opening concert of the ATOS 50th Anniversary Convention.

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• pipe
• moller
• walker
• richard
• rodgers
• pasadena
• broadway
• atos

[etbuk]

The mMoller is black?

[orgelmonster]

The Moller is the white console. The Walker digital organ is the black console.

[acoustics101]

Wow!! Were both of these consoles controlling the same instrument? Reginald Foort's touring Moller sounds outstanding! You don't see something like this everyday!

[orgelmonster]

Thanks. The Moller is the pipe organ. The black console is a Walker digital theatre organ, so there are actually two consoles playing two different instruments.

[JonasClark]

@SuperElBorba I'm hunting for details on all former pipe organ pizza parlors. Could you possibly send me a PM, and perhaps you'd know some concrete details on the Organ Power Pizza restaurants?

[3dwurli]

@steamrocks Brits love there trems useable, and not to sound miserable! Theres a limit on how fast, they arent all that fast!

[steamrocks]

@kinura4 Having owned (and built) Pipe organs, Electronic (analog) organs and VirTual Theater Organs, in my opinion there is one more drawback to pipes..for some of us. Theater pipe organs need space for tone to mix and develop. Listen to the best sounding theater organs in the chambers, and they sound awful. In most homes, it is like listening to the organ right outside the chamber, cuz that's where you are. VirTuals take away the need for all that mixing space, though they still need some.

[steamrocks]

@theonejrs It's not just secondary harmonics, and those HAVE to be tough to pick out on a Youtube video! The massing and trem effects are different on the windblown Moller. A closer to reality sound could be created with sampled trems. One thing I noticed on the Moller that had to be a throwback from its British days was the fast trem on the solo Tuba. Brits love their trems fast. I understand there was a WurliTzer Tibia transplant into the Moller. It sure shows.

[Mattegsels]

Saugeil!

[DLLMWL]

Magnificent playing by both organists. Although you can hear much more power from the Moller, the idea of having two separate instruments on the same stage is great. They compliment each other beautifully. Are there more pieces by this duo?

[TwoTigers04]

Take me out to the ball game, take me out to the .... whoops...sorry....

[theonejrs]

I guess I'm among the 1% that can tell these two organs apart then. The walker lacks the secondary harmonics of the Moller. These are defined as the mix in timbres of the different pipes that are being played, and the beat frequencies they create. Perfect tune is all but impossible for any Theater organ, and the tuning can and does change depending on Temperature, Humidity and barometric Pressure. It's what gives a true theater organ a unique sound that electronics just can't match!

[kingjames8283]

Wow Carl, your right. You can't tell the different between the Mollers air driven pipes and the Walkers digital speaker system array. It sounds like one instrument. Thanks for asking me to watch this as I'm impressed with Walkers digital technology, it's incredibly accurate.

[bigsilverdaddy58]

Two incredible organists displaying incredible music!!!!

Fantastic!!! Lets do it again!!!!

[dmcoles88]

Six minutes and forty eight seconds of absolute perfection !

[EstateManor]

We have a Moller theatre organ here in Oklahoma at Oklahoma U. Hope great things for it and the artform of theatre pipe organ. So many classical organists are afraid to admit their appreciation of the theatre organ. Such attitudes are passe indeed! The theatre organ is of the highest calibre and has always been so. Music is political like all things...but it is just ignorant not to be impressed with such excellence as above!

[carlosroberto366]

2:00 up to 3:05 best part for me, got no words to describe how these wonderful chords match

[VinnieSutra]

Outstanding

[DeserTBoB93535]

I was there for the premier of the Moller. A less than optimal installation at first, but things improved as time went on. The Foort Moller has NO equal...not the SF or Atlanta Foxes (been there, done that). I heard Lyn Larsen do "Slaughter" back then and it almost blew me out of the balcony! Just don't get on the tuning crew for this one...yoikes!

[TexasJim1956]

I love this video. I watch often. These two artist are amazing individuals but when paired together they become an awesome team.

[wa1ufo]

Jelani is awesome!!

[9fq6z]

ny1news........ what rot you talk.........stupidly immature competitive crap............ you have missed the point of what you have watched ...... we all know what CC can technically do .........but totally without heart!

[Alleghenymike]

Whoa Fun!

[bombarde1701]

They did a recording together called, "American Classics-Pipe Organ Extravaganza VIII" at the Rialto Square Theatre. A great 2CD set! The Barton and the Walker Organ sound great!

[CRACKintheMOON]

REALLY? WOW! That's worth visiting Moore, OK. That would make a fortune in the right areas. Are you an organist?

[Gillyyorkie]

I would welcome either  in my lounge lol I wish I could have one like it

[blainegale]

Proof positive that the 5-manual Walker Unit Orchestra Rob Richards is playing matches the true pipes Jelani Eddington is playing. The Walker's Concert Flute has an excellent pipe-like chiff that is heard here in a quiet solo passage. Both these men need to make a CD on the 3m23r Wurlitzer in Peery's Egyptian Theater in Ogden. They both say it's among the top 10 they have ever played. Jelani and Chris were at the Egyptian with Jelani's Grieg's Piano Concerto last Feb 7th. WOW!