115-key Verbeeck Centenary Concert Organ at GDSF 2007

The 115-key Verbeeck Centenary Concert Organ built in 1984, and featuring at the 39th Great Dorset Steam Fair with a new extended facade.

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[mortier92antwerp]

The best organ!

[Rainmanxxl1967]

Only old marches and " operettenmusik"? These organs were built to entertain the audience on a fair at ancient times with music like that and now the entertainment means shakiras Hips don´t lie when the organs should get the crowd going today. I think they do it very well.

[dalekbitch]

@weirdmindofesh Hips don't lie by shakira

[mihalylovics]

@Rainmanxxl1967 It's true! Old marches and operett music wasn't the fashion, when it was built, in 1984, too.

[Skezbow]

This organ knocks the socks off victory! The sound of victory isn't as concentrated as this, Victory pisses sound out all over the place where as this baby channles it right out in one pure blast of fantastic sound, the whole sound of the GDSF is eclipsed when stood listening to this boy! Beeky is best!

[weirdmindofesh]

@Rainmanxxl1967 I think it is the novelty of the organ, something that is electro-mechanical or just mechanical still operating today. Anything produced like this organ today would be using a PLC for control.

[weirdmindofesh]

What song is the organ playing? It seems like the song is pushing how fast the system can play a note. (I am guessing that this is electromechanical)

[dominich4962]

how do u build them

[alfa07080509]

So, you are going to post now a videomessage of your "bigger than 115" organ, wich will prove the quality of your work.

How long do we have to wait before we can start laughing?

[bazareed]

I bet if Victory and this organ played together it would sound amazing!

[Thijsie92]

Those are an entirely different matter! How can you ever compare church organs to these? You can't even really say that they have more than 115 keys, as the keys in these organs refer to actual pieces in the keyframe, not a keyboard with seperate stops etc. These arrangments aren't performed live, they're in midi files, or in cardboard books. You should know what you're talking about before you try to compare things.