Bombardes of Albi Cathedral organ

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Uploaded by on Aug 26, 2008

One of the most exciting organs of the world . . . sending shivers down one's spine.

A visit to an organ recital in Albi Cathedral is recommended and http://pagesperso-orange.fr/ass.christophe.moucherel/_private/concerts.htm gives details of forthcoming opportunities

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  • Can you imagine the amazement and dumbfoundedness this would have caused in the poor peasants who beheld it when it was new?

  • @fordtruxdad What a thought! Yes!

  • never heard anything quite like this. So the bombardes are the really high ones like in this one?

  • @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!

  • Interesting that it is performed in C, instead of D.

  • @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.

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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

  • With such extravagant use of the Bombardes the organist exhibited little compassion for the bellows operators.

  • I remember when they used to play this right before the Tour de France on French TV every year. :)

  • @dulcjan3 Construit par Moucherel en 1736, restauré par Formentelli en 1981.

  • meraviglioso! che potenza e che sonorità! pura maestosità e grandeur Louis XIV

  • 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.

  • I can hear Contre Bombarde 32 :)

  • i like the pure sound of the trumpets and bombard. truely a very great organ!

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