Aeolian player pipe organ "Triumphal March"

pipes 690
made in 1908

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Aeolian
• player
• pipe
• organ
• Triumphal
• March
• 1908
• 609
• roll
• paper

[jimamia77]

many NYC high schools housed giant pipe organs. My school, New Utrecht High, and all it's clone buildings installed instruments in their auditoriums! I believe that Washington Irving High in Gramercy Park has the only existing working organ in the system. I have a diapason pipe from the chapel of Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn.

[kyokutyou2007]

@jimamia77

oh, I wanto to be born in the US!!!!

[TheWhitecloak]

Could do with a good tuning! Would sound MAGNIFICENT if it was. I agree with MIDI if it is used to preserve the original rolls as they can easily be destroyed by playing them.

[ceredigio]

@joenwayne This organ is in a mechanical musical museum in Otaru, Japan. I do not believe Aeolian orchestrelle rolls were made by well known performers in the same way as pianola rolls, so I would guess the Aeolian company arranged the roll.

[ceredigio]

@Rowland107 This is in a mechanical musical museum in Otaru, Japan

[ceredigio]

@BruderStarkton I know of at least three organs in the UK which HAVE had a midi system put on, but they have retained their original book playing keyframes and can still play from them and can switch to play from midi if desired. But you are right, removing the keyframes entirely from old instruments and putting midi in their place is simply not on. Thankfully I for one know of no cases where this has occurred.

[ceredigio]

@whoisthisguy724 That doesn't much look like a Wurlitzer band organ to me, more like a Raffin 20 key hand turned organ!

[whoisthisguy724]

I see a small Wurlitzer band organ in the bottom right corner. Is that a 103, 104, or 105?

[BruderStarkton]

Why oh why do all these idiots want to ruin and alter original antique mechanical musical instruments by putting MIDI controls on them. Please leave them as they were built. If you want to add MIDI then DONT build a new instrument

[DonaldFranklin67]

@arburo1 I think it would help, if you could have a MIDI controller, and make MIDI files,with which you would use a computer to control the organ. This would involve connecting all the pneumatics,so the computer would be "running the show" I saw videos by another You Tube user, "ampicoab", who did this, with a 1914 vintage Aeolian player pipe organ, he rebuilt. I saw videos he did of the organ playing "Waltz of the Flowers" from the Nutcracker Suite and Ketelby's "In a Persian Market"