"Star Wars/Raiders of the Lost Ark"

Martin Ellis plays a medley from Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark on the Sanfilippo organ, the largest theater organ in the world.

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Music

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• Ellis
• Martin Ellis
• Sanfilippo
• organ
• pipe organ
• theater organ
• Star Wars
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Wurlitzer

[vdanker]

There are pipe organs with more pipes; what makes this one the largest?

[pipeorganman1]

@vdanker It is the largest THEATER organ. Theater organs are fundamentally different from church or recital organs because most of the ranks are "units" - that is, they are shared in various ways. It would be a large recital organ at 80 ranks; it's a HUGE theater organ.

[Fendervana]

Awesome indeed. The Starwars Cantina song is perfectly suited for a pipe organ!

[Tambako]

Awesome! I like the diversity of the sounds!

[Timrath]

Is that a bust of Wagner on the side?

[andyt1424]

@XxloganrocksXx If I can remember right, the red tabs are for reed sounds, yellow for strings, and white for all others. The black ones can change the octaves of the sound, or move the sounds to each of the 5 different keyboards

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[dracador]

epic

[LorenLuke]

@XxloganrocksXx They're basically the same thing as stops on a pipe organ...

[cwit89]

where's he going?

[XxloganrocksXx]

I dont get what all those black red and white keys are do they change the sound or something?

[MrKody001]

I'm not really liking this

[dtd2uk]

An excellent piece of playing on a fabulous instrument. I just wish I could have some of those stops on the organ I play!

[KutWrite]

This sounds great - well done!

Does it also travel through time?

[whataboutawatrbottle]

@Stoney3K aaah hahaha! pipe organ humour.