Nice final demo with a good build to the Tutti! I am a lover of the A-S organs. I visited the St. John Cathedral in Spokane WA and during the prelude, quickly deduced that it was an A-S. I was right! Amazing find way up there.

I like it when organ pipes are terraced. I'm just fascinated by that specific layout!

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The console is in a French style design which is really nice!

It is obvious why it has never been replace, while it is small, the selection of sounds and the way they are voiced is lovely. Just enough without being too much.

Brent and Andrew make such a beautiful duo because they know how to valorise every stop and everything about the organ itself. That melodia is really a wonderful stop

I love your channel and look forward to each new post. This organ has amazing, full bodied tone in every division. The church is exquisitely beautiful, uplifting, otherworldly. Its architecture, decoration, stained glass, etc, direct one's thoughts to eternity, and eternity's God. My heart is sad that this is no longer a place of Catholic worship. Event centers are nice. Bringing community together is generally a good thing. However, I feel that using this sacred space as an event center is a tragedy, bordering on sacrilege. Thank you to those who saved it, but shame on the diocese who let it go.😢

I recognize those chests. Can’t think of his name, but he was the predecessor of Lima pipe organs Holy Cross Brothers.

That lady organist doesn't seem to be friendly what-so-ever! My guess is, because she doesn't wear any makeup, she probably doesn't carry a purse and her REAL job is either construction or electrical or plumbing work.

Andrew is great! Brent, you should hire him to go to all the organ venues!

What a fascinating re-use of the space! Glad the organ's preservation is a part of it. :)

Sounds like the 4pr, 12th, 15th have been brightened and the mix lost its tierce.

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I have to agree with Andrew, That 4' Harmonic Flute on the Swell is the star of this particular organ. It has the perfect amount of treble ascendancy and articulation. I think this organ despite having some finicky tuning issues and some stoplist changes might be one of the more overlooked pipe organs in the state of Iowa.

I look forward to your organ demonstrations each week; another brilliant organ and video! Thanks both!

How wonderful to see that this organ has been saved and is being cared for. With a bit of TLC it'll be a fine sounding instrument - singing diapasons and some really characterful flutes. Would love to hear those Great reeds in tune with the chorus. I wonder if the "prepared for" space in the swell box was for another 16ft? It seems to be a very purposeful space. Maybe to fit in an independent expressive Pedal stop. Whatever, yet another fascinating video - thank you for posting.

Another wonderful video of an historic instrument by Brent & Andrew !

This is a lovely instrument. Each voice is unique and beautiful; every stop is important. Love the reeds!

This is how an organ should sound.

i live near Highland. The last i heard, Wicks is out of business.

Bombarde 32 is like a trombone/pousane and bassoon 16 hybrid?

Vox Humana 16? Never heard of that before. Please elaborate further?

thought for a moment Bach's Figue in E flat, was a dubstep to the tune of O God Our Help In Ages Past

An excellent presentation as ever, showcasing in particular your unending patience and good manners. I do wish however that folk would not use the term "restoration", to describe what is effectively a rebuild, however well meant, with alterations which remove much of the originality of the instrument. The organ as it now stands is very good, with an overall 19th century sort of sound, but it is a rebuild, acknowledging contemporary requirements; to call it a "restoration" is pue gaslighting.

A lovely success story, I enjoyed the Pastoral by Albert D Schmutz you played, Do you know where I could order this from Please.

I could listen to Professor Engels talk about & play with that organ all day long. Excellent video!

Lovely instrument. Reuter’s work is proof that resuse and adaptation of existing pipework can work well.

Very interesting. These videos really help me to appreciate these older organs of a certain era with qualities that sometimes escape me. Love Horst as a presenter - lovely playing and he's insightful and enthusiastic.

The next organ you should check out is the one at Grace Lutheran in Clarksville, TN.

So much shade in the comments. This is a lovely instrument that doesn't try to be all things. First time I've seen an organist pop up on the bench and pull a pipe in one of these videos - hilarious!

How come I never see a woman playing these big organs?

Brent, are those two fans mounted sideways on the top of the organ case? Any reasoning given why that was done, if so?

Demo starts 9:32

Good sounding organ.

Is the organist on the spectrum? Seems like it.

Is it still intact and working?

Beautiful ❤ your pedalwork in socks?

A wonderful result they achieved amalgamating the components here. Thanks Andrew and Brent.

I am a Catholic. Growing up, we had several Lutheran neighbors, Missouri Synod, and ALC or LCA. don't remember. There were wonderful neighbors. I respected them. When I was in Grade School, i listened to KFUO in St. Louis (a Lutheran station at Concordia Seminary). I always thought Lutherans had the best music.

Fascinating as always. Not sure what I'm seeing at 29"09 - inverted conical reeds (trumpets) but with slides on top held together with spiral springs? Never come across that before! One of them looks like a tuner's nightmare - slide not on level. But what an amazing sounding organ - for example that beautifully scaled Gt Fourniture that supports rather than screams over the chorus. And to echo what others have said - Brent and Andrew make an incredible presenting team. A very fine demonstration of an exceptional organ. Thankyou for posting.

That great diapason chorus screams early 80’s Moller to me.

Been loving these videos for years... but never understood why people that feel they must be in the building while during the recording, find it necessary not to just sit but must mess with the missals and hymnals in the pews and such. They even hit the audio recorder stand (14:50) in this video. smh. I know OMF and 'we' as visitors are guests, but come on peeps.

Wonderful to hear the Purvis Toc. Festiva in the background.

I grew up listening to a 1978 2/22 Wicks, and the Great Gedeckt here reminds me a lot of that organ's Great Bourdon. I think the Swell strings are better than the 1978 organ's Viola and Celeste, though.

The crumhorn and musette together make a great regal. That sort of nasty buzz really makes it pop.

This is another organ I ironically have not heard when I lived in Iowa, but I know where this is, in fact it is only just 25-30 miles to the north of where I used to go to for summer camp as a kid. It is really interesting that Wicks used a relatively unconventional material for their tuning slides on their metal pipework during the mid 20th century.

Tell that person to stop banging around down there!😜

This organ just has such a nice sound and character to it. Not all may agree, but I do like this one in particular. At least fr the video, nothing sounds overpowering and it all blends very well.

I am loving this series of Iowa organs. Thank you.

Given the different sources for the pipework in this organ, it's quite the (successful) Frankenstein's Monster of organ building.