Testing out the Baldwin Organ

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I was giving this organ a run before deciding to take it for home (or possibly church) use. They said I couldn't take the gothic acoustics with it :-( . No critiques on the playing!!! I was just messing around with sounds and stops on tape, so i'd have something to remember once I went home. What a beautiful church...it's Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Baltimore, MD

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  • that pipe organ is untuned

  • @kjsimonUSMC It's not pipe..it's electronic. The out of tune perception you have probably comes from a combination of the acoustics, and the celeste strings which are intended to be slightly out of tune.

  • danielmkubacki: actually crescendo doesn't really have to do with air...it incrementally adds stops to the registration, and if used very gradually, can help create beautiful accents in a piece. It all depends on the organ builder and the order of the stops in the crescendo, and the organist using it correctly. For the purposes of this video, though, I was simply making sure everything worked.

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  • how do u like the organ? we are thinking about gettign gone at our church. any input?:

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  • Anyone Remember Lois Parsely in San Diego area...he played/worked for Baldwin Organ Co and made a record playing on the 210 D or bigger model? I miss him! He was most wonderful person God ever created!

  • You play quite well... Virgil Fox would be impressed, Claire Coche would think  you weren't "rough enough" with the instrument, haha!

  • So did you get it?! I played for a church back in the early '80s that had a very similar Baldwin (Model 640). It had 16 channels of sound and a double ampliication system including a refrigerator-sized subwoofer cabinet. It had a nice sound but the console was very flimsy and cheaply made and I had a constant problem with drawknobs popping off.

  • Thats a Baldwin D620 Organ. I grew up playing on one in Iowa at a catholic church and its still there. The only problem it had is it would crackle sometimes when the weather was very humid.

  • Majestic to say the least. You can hear the quality is there even if the camera mic had a hard time keeping up with the sounds.

  • the room itself is such a critical part of the instrument, and it's easy for electronic organs to sound great in an accoustically live room. sadly it wouldn't work at my church :(

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