The_Municipal_Organ.mov

This is a chapter entitled "The Municipal Organ" from the documentary film "The Senator's Masterpiece" about the Atlantic City Convention Hall Organ. For more information about The Atlantic City Convention Hall Organ please visit http://www.ACCHOS.org. For more information on the preservation of America's historic pipe organs please visit http://www.organsociety.org. For more information about the filmmaker please visit http://www.VicFerrerProductions.com
© 2006 Vic Ferrer Productions

Category:

Music

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• ACCHOS
• Pipe
• Organ
• History
• Jack
• Bethards
• Curt
• Mangel
• Stephen
• Smith
• John
• Goodman
• Harry
• Bellangy
• Atlantic
• City
• Convention
• Hall
• Boardwalk
• Kimball
• Midmer-Losh
• Midmer
• Losh
• Largest

[PlanetMan77]

Finally a satisfying display of this organ.... even finding photographs of the whole thing(as opposed to just the keyboard womb) is inexplicably difficult.

[VicFerrer]

@PlanetMan77 More videos of the Midmer-Losh organ can be found on my YouTube channel including the Hess Photo collection montage.

[Zylstra555]

What recent progress have they made with the instrument? I'd love to visit it someday.

[VicFerrer]

@Zylstra555 The very large Kimball theater organ in the Ballroom is up and running. The console has been beautifully restored and the instrument is now playing. Restoration on the large Midmer-Losh in the main auditorium is moving forward but is most likely many years away from completion. If you wish to actually see the organs in person, ACCHOS provides tours. You can find out more information at: ACCHOS(dot)org

Vic -

[keymaster013]

I know the reasons why we can't restore this amazing beast right now, but...C'MON!!! Anybody got a few million bucks to spend?

[VicFerrer]

@keymaster013 Anything is possible.

[MelosAntropon]

The organ was briefly the largest pipe organ in the world, but it has not been near fully operable in many years. No question it is impressive. But there is a reason the great concert organists do not record it - it isn't especially good. It was built from the early 20thcentury design concept of "Can You Top THIS??" Impressive - no question.  High quality (tonally)? Not really.

[peter1961m]

i would rather have listened to the organ itself instead of a bunch of people

talking, talking, talking, talking, talking, talking about ten and a half minutes.

[music784151]

Wonderfully informative documentary excerpt. How grand it would be if they could have a statewide yearly telethon to raise the funds to totally restore this magnificent instrument. Perhaps the casinos could donate much needed monies. Surely there are musical non-profit organizations that could help as well.

[jimamia77]

I was told that the helicopter was used to fly Miss America around shortly after she was crowned. The 64' diaphone sounds like a helicopter.

[bryceguy72]

Hauptwerk audio engineers... sample this beast before it dies. Good luck recording that 64' stop @ 8Hz ! Do any microphones even go that low?

[beedoe51]

Simply amazing! Truly remarkable on every level. I can't imagine hearing and feeling music played by a single musician encompassing every frequency possible to the human ear and beyond...I hope one day to experience that low 64' stop. Technology way, way ahead of it's time!!! Thanks for posting this!!!! Steve

[MultiBlue75]

It is being restored. Progress is just really slow. The left stage chamber has a huge part of it removed and is being restored. The right stage chamber is still the only side that plays, portions of it still have issues. They are trying to replace the internal portions with more modern parts so that it will require less maintenance and be more reliable. I know the Curator through a good friend of mine and he says that it will be awhile before it is completely done.