Jacob plays Bach D minor with 128ft stop

Young Jacob comes to practice with his grandad and here he is getting to grips with the Bach D minor prelude. You can hear the 128ft stop modulating the sound of the whole full organ - this is not really well reproduced by automatic volume control of a camera microphone and is felt, reinforcing the bottom of the music. One does not need a fashionable Thigpen to reproduce these frequencies!

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Music

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• Bach
• minor
• organ
• practice
• 64ft
• 128ft
• stop

[fabianswebworld]

As with most American organs, the disposition and intonation of this organ is metallic, harsh, not beautiful and without harmonic taste. I really don't like to say this but I'm afraid I have to. When it comes to american pipe organs, one gets the feeling that they only rules they have are: the more air pressure, the more stops, the longer pipes, the more pipes, the LOUDER, the more tons of metall used .- the better.

But this is not true if you want to build a harmonically sounding church organ.

[latribe]

@fabianswebworld :-) I can agree with you. The most popular videos of this organ, sadly, are very badly recorded - search "Hugh Potton Reubke" to hear better more nearly how this instrument really does sound and it sounds even better now . . .

[utvfd30]

Please Tell me how old this young man is... Its was an awesome Job. he's barely big enough to reach all of the registers and peddles... and he did it by memory to boot... Good job bubba keep it up...

[latribe]

@utvfd30 I think he was no more than 9 at the time . . .

[xpianoman92]

@messjuh2 hes an effing kid back off

[cnewark]

thats brilliant jacob!! well done...

[TURBOKNIGHTRIDER]

that´s to fast idiot!

[maddogmcrae]

Sounds like he is having a "Blast".

Way to go kid!!!! :)

[Tailss1]

That was fun. I agree. xD

[SrRikintoshHacker]

mother of god

[schuldistkult]

Welcome to Fantomas cave

[mietekzjaczna]

szykuje się mistrz organów :)

[patrickthepipe]

bravo

[falaqdad15]

@fabianswebworld it's massive cathedral organs that are characteristic of the loud, harsh sounds along with those unit action organs. Commercialization and models led to small, non-reverberant places having awkward reed stops and a plenum of 8',4',2',1' and 2 2/3' with one rank of pipes. It's tasteless and makes the organ more of a fixture than anything. It's an organ for the purpose of having an organ, following the norm of churches in America. still, however, some have a little magic in them

[falaqdad15]

@fabianswebworld Oh absolutely. This is just the 60s-70s i'm talking about. We had begun replacing our "classic" instruments with contemporary, neo-baroque instruments. Adding unit pneumatic action to those instruments made them much cheaper but also as eclectic and awkward as the Pink Plastic Flamingo. Many of our "classic"-styled instruments built later on were voiced very sharply and loudly; mostly cathedral organs. Our largest organs were built during the "roarin' " 20's.