Variation on America
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@heepitfull The Hollywood High School organ is an E.M. Skinner damaged in the earthquake and reconstructed by Austin Organs of Hartford, CT, the last organ builder from the Skinner-Moller-Wurlitzer age of American organs.
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Fox had an LP with the Ives on a theatre organ, quite campy, unlike the Biggs.
Question: Who is the builder of this organ?
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A tuning of this Organ wouldn't hurt either.
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yeah...i want to see that again too
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Where is the video of the Organ playing "Think of Me" from Phantom of the Opera?
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love the bitonality at 3:26, so mindblowing
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Filmstudent: Thank you so much for posting this. What memories! I am a graduate of HHS and during my three years there saw Gaylord Carter play this organ accompanying a Harold Lloyd film. At the end none other than Mr. Lloyd himself came out on stage and we gave both these men a standing ovation. Also Virgil Fox came and played it for us one year, tellings us what a great instrument the HHS organ was. Thanks again.
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E. Power Biggs gets way more credit than he deserves. Virgil was the best of that time. Cameron is the best now.
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no it wasnt thats just ur opinion
Excellent and especially the pedal work.
bennypapd 4 years ago 5
privatecustomer...just a note. The organ is an early 20th century orchestral organ...and a small one at that. It has NO independent mutations I don't believe there's even a Nasard derived from a unison rank. And most of the registers are 8' pitch. Considering the nature of the instrument, I'd say Filmstudent89 got an amazing array of colors out of a limited number of tonal resources, and used tempo variations to great effect.
SeattleOrganMan 3 years ago 3