Pipe Organ: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

Me playing the processional at the 2008 Christmas Eve Mass at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Princeton, WI. The introduction and conclusion are improvisations of my own creation.

I am not going to school for organ performance or music. I am actually a Chemistry and Biology major and am currently preparing to apply for medical school. The organ is merely one of my great passions. I hope you enjoy my performance.

Please comment!

Specifications of the Instrument:

Built by Wicks Organ Company in 1966. Total of 14 ranks. Two manuals(Great and Swell), 61 notes each. 32 note pedal board.

Pedal:
Sub Bass 16'(Great)
Rohr Gedeckt 16' (Swell)
Octave 8' (Great)
Flute 8' (Great)
Choral Bass 4' (Great)
Posaune 16' (Swell)
Couplers: Great 8', 4'; Swell 8',4'

Great:
Principal 8'
Bourdon 8'
Salicional 8' (Swell)
Octave 4'
Mixture III
Couplers: Great to Great 16', 4'; Swell to Great 16', 8', 4'

Swell (Enclosed):
Rohr Flute 8'
Salicional 8'
Voix Celeste 8'
Koppel Flute 4'
Nasard 2 2/3'
Block Flute 2'
Trompette 8'
Tremulant
Couplers: Swell to Swell 16', 4'

Includes swell expression pedal, crescendo pedal, and sforzando piston.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Pipe
• Organ
• Princeton
• Wisconsin
• Saint
• John
• Baptist
• Hark
• Herald
• Angels
• Sing

[DrunkCanadian3]

How long have you been playing?

[sondasam]

@DrunkCanadian3 In this video I had been playing for one and a half years. Now, it's been 3 years.

[theaterpipe1]

It sounded like the first verse was played using the Mixture III wasn't it?

[sondasam]

Yes, the mixture III was on.

[Orgeltrecker]

Schön gespielt!!

gefällt mir gut.

Wie alt bist du?

[sondasam]

I am 19 years old.

[Gwendolain]

Nice work!! It's always fun trying to get the congregation to not drag a triumphant hymn into a durge and you did it magnificently! Keep up the awesome work! To those that say an organist is too loud, voices are the stops are simply another rank on top of the flutes ;)

[MrKrummhorn]

Polish organists in church are playing and singing...

[MrBuschi531]

You can play the Organ very very good! Awesome!

[doothless]

Personally, I think the Wicks company in Highland, IL make fine organs. I wish I could afford one.

[hhsaslterps]

good job, you can see you are still learning... the more you work at it, the less you will need to look down. My grandmother taught herself to play an organ after doing 30+ of piano. Great job either way!

[hatstalker]

here here, there's nothing like feeling the resistance of a proper tracker organ

[theaterpipe1]

@patsaxon

Have you played Rodgers? I can't tell the difference between their sounds and the real thing.

[patsaxon]

I love playing the pipe organ! Regardless of how advance digital sampling is, there is still nothing like a real pipe organ!