Luke Navin (12) Worth Organ Scholar at Hammerwood Park

At Hammerwood Park we like to provide encouragement for enthusiastic and young musicians, making available a facility for practice, informal and formal performance and it is an honour to welcome such musicians as Luke Navin who is a music scholar at Worth School.

The organ at Hammerwood Park served in its original 3 manual form at Londonderry Cathedral for a dozen years. Upon arriving at Hammerwood we enlarged it to 5 manuals to provide a concert instrument on which to promote the widest organ repertoire in order to get the music to be appreciated and celebrated more in its own right, as a discouragement to the destruction of organs by bulldozers and property developments - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MW1oOTiFoOk

Encouraging young people to play the organ is the way to promote the instrument. It is singularly the most difficult instrument play http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oLS9W8DTPhc requiring parallel thinking and preparation in contrast to all other instruments which merely require thought of a serial sequence. At the very conception of playing, the instrument requires one to conceptualise every passage and the stops required for the interpretation of that section. With multiple manuals, pedal board and stops one has to be firing on all cylinders and watching all directions, skills appropriate for Jumbo Jet aircraft flying or high speed express train driving, exploration into quantum physics and problem solving.

Organists therefore tend to be high achievers and promotion of the learning of the instrument is beneficial to society.

All organists are welcome to play or practice at Hammerwood whether occasionally or regularly whenever they want by arrangement.

If you would like to come and hear amazing musicians, please keep an eye on http://www.hammerwood.mistral.co.uk/concerts.htm

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[I4AM4NAME]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaah awful sound. You organ fans in america should come to the netherlands to hear our fantastic organs :)

[latribe]

@I4AM4NAME This is a poor snapshot with a bad camera in the urgency of capturing a magic moment of a great performer. Search "French Baroque Masterclass" for the Grand Jeu, well recorded, and which few instruments in England can match. Search also "Filsell Clavierubung" for some other great examples and "Hugh Potton Reubke". This instrument is a concert instrument in England intended to demonstrate the Organ to be the King of Instruments, and interesting, rather than a boring drone in churches

[praestant8]

That thing must have lots of audio channels!

[latribe]

@praestant8 Hi! Yes - my "thing" does have lots of channels. It's up to around 30. See videos "Hugh Potton Reubke", "Latrobian Whirl" and "French Baroque Masterclass" which are well recorded and demonstrate its diversity.

[tommyupoo]

an easy piece to play really well done

[latribe]

I'm not sure how "easy" this piece is - but from memory too - I'd have had no expectation of playing this at the age of 12. Have a look at Luke's other video of the other piece he played - I thought that that was really impressive.

[theshamen96]

DIABOLICAL

[CindyBradyTooh]

Totally awesome! :D

~Cindy! :)

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[Sesquiltera]

@tommyupoo - you've probably not played it.

[wagnerfreak]

How come he reaches the pedals? Is this an adjustable console?

Nice dog!

[ChrissysVideokids]

Very very good....

[HHDougyT]

This is Rutter's Toccata Seven I believe? What is the interesting electric registration! Why does his right hand go AB AB GF#E? Please correct me if I'm wrong but i thought it was A A GF#E. There is a B but an octave lower?