My organist husband thinks this instrument is very interesting and cool… but I’m reminded of Scotty’s classic line from “Star Trek III": “The more they overtake the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain.’

Remember, just like a car, the more electronics, automation, stepper motors etc, the more that can go wrong… and it will, just give it time. Extraordinary instrument, innovation and craftsmanship thought!

Thanks so much for uploading this - what a fascinating instrument!

Fuer mich sind das zu viel Spielereien. Das braucht kein Mensch.

Lovely! 💜

😳 Holy Moley! 🙉 🥲 💜 🎉 Lovely!

Despite of the perhaps interesting new features, the most ugly organ design ever seen, I can't stand to look at this!

Bach piano is a no go

The keymode tracker is really nicely done. I never thought about such thing. But it looks and sounds really like it's mechanically connected (while it's not of course). The proportionate stop action... I don't know if that really has a use case. Half-open stops are good for spooky sounds but i don't know if it has a place in normal organ playing.

What a great demonstration of the truly mindblowing features on this instrument!

Ligeti's dream.

отличные записи, спасибо! недавно был в этой церкви, этот орган действительно очень сложный в обращении

This is a hugely expensive toy for Helsinki but at the end of the day surely it's the music that counts. Is there organ music using quarter tones, proportional winds? Or it is becoming a special effects generator? I like the feature to adjust the console dimensions to some extent. 20:31 Stop number 7 Chamade B 4', number 8 Chamade D 8', what are B and D?

What magnificent playing! A pleasure to hear........

Was spielt der Organist ab sekunde etwas 40ff ??

Ah, that it just a Hammond remade..they stole the drawsbars from Hammond...

Wonderful!!

Wow - this is fascinating! I’ve never seen an organ with such flexibility. Congratulations to Reiger for being so innovative and forward-thinking. It makes my own organ look like a little toy in comparison!

This has many of the more outlandish features of the new Rieger in the Stephansdom, in Wien. I guess money was no object in either case! Thanks for the fine demo. 😁

Sooner or later, someone at Casavant or Flentrop will see this video, and jaws will drop! lol I have been playing pipe organs for 40 years, and I can't even imagine how I could registrate these features into a piece.

Could you hook up and electric guitar to this pipe organ.

Magnifique ! J'ai apprécié chaque note jouée dans l'interprétation de cette belle danse hongroise ! 🎶 Ça sautille et ça danse !

Does the concert hall allow organists interested in the organ to contact them and ask to play the organ?

1. Gedanke: Erstaunlich, was heute im Orgelbau möglich ist. 2. Gedanke: Wer braucht sowas? 3. Gedanke: Die Registerzüge wirken sehr billig und instabil. 4. Gedanke: Da müssen so unfassbar viele Sensoren verbaut worden sein. Wenn da irgendwann mal einige ausfallen, will ich nicht der Orgelbauer sein, der die Fehler finden muß! Fazit: Ich wünsche der Orgel alles Gute! Aber ist es notwendig alles umzusetzten was möglich ist?

Absolutely not a fan of modern art, I find most of it distasteful and disordered. In other words not beautiful. I say this because the casework looks like something straight of hell. If the artist was portraying this, they have succeeded.

Amazing organ. Not a fan of the prospect, though.

the start reminds me of the THX intro

Do you know whether or not the curved looking pipes that make up the facade are speaking pipes or are they just for decoration? I can see that each has a mouth which made me curious as to whether or not they speak. With such an eclectic organ I would almost automatically assume that they do speak but wanted to see if you knew. 😊Excellent demonstration as usual. I love to see your organ demonstrations! Thank you for posting these!

The Volkswagen of organs.

Ridiculous organ. No one is waiting for this.

What is the name of the composition in intro? Thanks 😊

The page-turning function and adjustable console functions would be good to have on organs generally (and maybe that could adjust the bench's height and forward placement also).

Demo THX theme on this Organ

Thank you Balint for demonstrating the capabilities of this extraordinary instrument. I wasn't previously aware of this organ and note that, on the Musikkittalo website it is described as having "Unlimited creative potential" and "From the project’s inception, what mattered was ensuring that the new organ would lend itself to performing new contemporary music." It appears that they have achieved their aim. I must be too old for this as I wonder when creating "sound effects" becomes music? Certainly there will be some composers and performers who will relish this organ's capabilities. I dare say that the organ tuners have a fun time!

This organ is fascinating, but I ask, was it worth it to build it with pipes? Wouldn't top notch samples, and a really good speaker system work just as well? And so much easier to do. And a question, is the spaghetti stuff on the case just decorative? Thanks.

Thanks for insightful demo. My personal takeaway is yes, that organ has a good sounding principal 8 in the great (which is my #1 wish on every organ), especially with the proportional action. As for the "innovations" (most of them ancient but used more systematically here than elsewhere), I appreciate the open-mindedness of both the builder and the player. However I remember my disappointment at listening Keith Jarrett's "Sphere" recording in Ottobeuren, back in the seventies. Most of the stuff was played with half-drawn stops and the result was a boring failure. The fact that I am both a Keith Jarrett fan and an organ fan only sharpened the disappointment. For most organists, microtones are less useful than the ability to switch temperaments. Some (tracker !) organs have that, using extra pipes per octave and special "couplers" to select the right ones (rather than having sub-semitones that are difficult to play).

When the instrument becomes the "star," the musician, and the music fade into the background.

Up close shots show off the amazing wood! This organ must have been built with an unlimited budget. Impressive application of technology!

What an awesome organ! 😃 Can't wait to play it one day. 😁 Thanks for sharing this brief demo with us. 😊

I must admit, I do like it when the world of the pipe organ takes a bit of a “Quantum jump“

Austrian organ in Finland with all controls in English!

Finally the so called "Sartre´s Nausea" has reached the pipe organ !!!! God save Aristide Cavaillé-Coll and his illustrious predecessors from the 18 and 17 centuries.-

Wow! A stunning instrument for airline pilots who play the pipe organs in their local churches...😊

Amazing and wow!

the maple flecking on the case behind the stops is amazing

How do they actually make it proportional? Is it air valves that can stand still in any position instead of the usual open or closed?

Thank you for your video. Looks fantastic. Never seen something like that before. The good way to go in terms of how 21 century organ can look like. On the other hand there might be an issue how to maintain this huge and complicated instrument in good condition. More engineering devices take more time to overhall. More complicated ingineering is less reliable compared to less complicated one. Nevertheless, it looks very interesting and exciting!

What a fascinating organ! I think my old brain would explode if I tried to access all of its capabilities. Thank you for your demonstration!

A triumph of technology over musicality. Somehow pretending that pipes gasping for wind thanks to partially opened valves or sliders are in some way "musical"... it's a joke. And all that money and they couldn't even sort out a bench that doesn't creak. Or maybe that's part of the innovation?