Fanfare - J. Lemmens - Berlin Reed Organ

Jacques-Nicolas (Jaak-Nicolaas) Lemmens (1823 - 1881), was an organist and composer. He was also the teacher of Alexandre Guilmant and Charles-Marie Widor.

This piece might be not 100% suited for an old pump organ, but it is sure fun to play - sorry in advance for the places I missed some of the notes. I haven't had the music for years so there will be other inaccuracies too. It is a great piece to keep the key bushings and couplers from getting stiff :-)

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Music

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• Jacques-Nicolas
• Jaak-Nicolaas
• Lemmens
• berlin
• reed
• pump
• organ
• rodney
• jantzi

[MattsOrganCo101]

does the organ have an electric pump?

[rodneyjantzi]

@MattsOrganCo101 - 100 percent foot powered, no electricity. The air assembly was carefully rebuilt, so you don't have to work at it very hard when you play.

[c33r0k33]

I'm definitely forwarding a video link on to our church organist. She will flip (positive) when she sees this. Maybe she will reconsider helping me study on a pump organ.

[rodneyjantzi]

Thanks! My keyboard on this organ could still use more adjustment to help clean up some of the sloppy sounding notes, so as long as she keeps that in mind when critiquing : ) When I go to Michigan this summer, I would love to try this piece on some of the restored organs at the reed organ museum there, to see how different organs respond to a piece like this …

[JamesEncliffe]

Wonderful! I think this works really well on the Berlin organ... and it demonstrates how promptly the reeds speak, particularly at the bass end. Is there a percussion mechanism to achieve this? My old organ can take an appreciable fraction of a second to fully develop the sound on the lower notes.

[rodneyjantzi]

Thanks James! There is no percussion on the bass - the reeds respond quickly in the sub bass on this organ compared to others. I think in part it is because of the higher vacuum pressure that can be achieved when the air assembly is as large is this one and because it is very air tight.

[fortefan98]

I love the deep rich sound of the reed organ:D it makes me very happy.

[irkibby]

Good knee-work.

[peckerwood57]

Wonderful sound. Happy fingers.

[Musique3579]

Bravo and what an ingenius way you had of presenting this wonderful work on this great Reed Organ. (Almost the effects exactly that a Pipe Organist uses, though of course the "tones" are different, but such is the nature, and a Reed Organ is "not" a Pipe Organ.) Applause!

[davbear221]

An accordion on steroids!

[c33r0k33]

@rodneyjantzi I didn't know we had a reed organ museum. Where is it located?

btw I'm still looking forward to you doing gospel and something from your son.