Bombardes of Albi Cathedral organ
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THAT ORGAN IS BIG AS FUCCKKKKKKKKKK!!! truly a wonder of the world....and it makes beautiful sounds
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welcome back and thanks.
grazie
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With such extravagant use of the Bombardes the organist exhibited little compassion for the bellows operators.
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I remember when they used to play this right before the Tour de France on French TV every year. :)
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@dulcjan3 Construit par Moucherel en 1736, restauré par Formentelli en 1981.
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meraviglioso! che potenza e che sonorità! pura maestosità e grandeur Louis XIV
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Is this showing off a pedal Bombarde or a Bombarde used on the manuals?
I think I hear a 32' Bombarde, but I know that a Bombarde pitched at 8' has a tonality similar to a trumpet.
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I can hear Contre Bombarde 32 :)
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i like the pure sound of the trumpets and bombard. truely a very great organ!
Can you imagine the amazement and dumbfoundedness this would have caused in the poor peasants who beheld it when it was new?
fordtruxdad 1 month ago 3
@fordtruxdad What a thought! Yes!
latribe 1 month ago
never heard anything quite like this. So the bombardes are the really high ones like in this one?
GoPatriots100 10 months ago
@GoPatriots100 Yes aren't they wonderful! It was the first time I had been introduced to this genre of organ and St Maximin is the other instrument to keep an eye on. But excitingly a new organ has been built in Italy at Rieti in this style by the organ builder who restored the Albi instrument. I would love to hear it one day!
latribe 9 months ago
Interesting that it is performed in C, instead of D.
octavebasse8 1 year ago
@octavebasse8 The pitch of the organ at St Maximin is a tone lower than standard, so this instrument is likely to be the same - somewhere around 390Hz.
latribe 1 year ago 4