Quick! Save the children from pencils!

There's 4332 pipes in Opus 55 - plenty metal ones - just not in this short video.

I agree it is heartbreaking to see the pipes in the dumpster. We had three experts tell us that the pipe organ was at end of life - not worth salvaging. We also listed it for free (just had to pay the cost for removal and delivery) on Organ Clearinghouse for one year - no takers. In the end, we had to have it demolished. Instead of having all pipes hauled away, we decided it was better to repurpose them and give them new life.

Quick google search reveals that there are some fully functioning organs in Europe nearing 500 yrs old (built & rebuilt through the centuries ofcourse, like the ship of Theseus) Oh well, what is done is done. I hope the new ones serve their purpose well into the future & that the pieces of the old one bring some joy -wherever they end up :)@@cathedralofthesacredheartf6961

And yet these are supposed to last 500 years, and this one was trash in 1/5th the time, it suggests the "maintenance" or "repair" people did shoddy haphazard work making a mess of things and making things worse. Of course builders will all say to replace it, not worth fixing, etc- they want the million dollar contract to build a brand NEW one with their name on it! How is it Pipe organs in Europe are far older and in great working condition being used every day for service and much more? A kid in Gyomore Hungary plays a tracker organ built in the 1850s, it sounds great, it does the job. There's plenty of organ videos filed over there and the organist is wearing a winter coat and hat, and half gloves because they dont heat the entire building to 70 degrees like we do in the USA, yet the pipe organs function just fine AND in tune. Frantisek Beer's channel is from Slovakia, he plays at several different churches and records the music- all of them except a large 3 manual one by Rieger in a Cathedral is a tracker organ. My own residence pipe organ was made from pipes I have from 5 different organs that were discarded, one of them was a 3 manual Kilgen from 1927 that was ruined because the church allowed a roof leak over the choir loft where the organ was to go on for YEARS, it leaked long enough that the wood 16' pedal pipes had turned GREY like weathered barnboards and literally fell apart when moved, nobody noticed the water leaking?? The organist was tired of the organ and deliberately made it non functional any more and smiled when he recounted that the organ just "shorted out" Water damaged windchests that had been previously repaired. They allowed people to take "souvenir" pipes home, some of them lead, and that basically destroyed almost every rank in the organ. Another was in a decomissioned church bought by a theater group who wanted the organ gone to use the room it was in for storage, they couldnt get the console out the door so they cut it up... Another decided to get an electronic organ and toss the old pipe organ. Either we are doing things WRONG in this country or they have a big secret in Europe @@cathedralofthesacredheartf6961

There was nothing wrong with the PIPES, they could have cleaned and refurbished the pipes much cheaper than replacing them, and replaced the old windchests with new electric action chests and their wiring.

" Organ Clearinghouse for one year - no takers" The problem with them is they are overloaded with pipe organs in storage, so many churches have closed, many demolished because people are falling out and the facilities no longer have the money coming in. I know of one they had in storage almost 20 years. The problem is many of them are HUGE instruments that require a HUGE space many facilities don't have. Pipe organs are designed for the space they were built for, it's difficult to modify one to fit a completely different space. " Instead of having all pipes hauled away, we decided it was better to repurpose them and give them new life." If you are "repurposing" the LEAD pipes, they are a health hazzard for lead exposure if handled. Even the small wood pipes have lead tips on their feet. The metal is worth money and can be recycled, I had a few hundred pounds of unused extra pipes left over and scrapped them as they were incomplete sets and damaged, the lead and zinc of those was worth around $200 @@cathedralofthesacredheartf6961

Richmond, Virginia USA - (My apologies - we are a 100% volunteer staff doing all administrative work for this incredible project.)

Chill out lol. And maybe use some common sense.

Pardon me for being so inferior to your vastly superior intellect. @@Brap-pl2me

Thank you!!!

Great question. A few sections of pipes were shared with other churches and some were saved as keepsakes. None of the old pipes will be used in the new organ.

If metal pipes are being "stacked up" on top of each other they are scrap...The wood pipes likely discarded, a shame too because those 100 year old wood pipes were made with old growth timber, and you cant buy the lumber any more- they typically use clear knot-free often quarter sawn sugar pine or spruce- irreplaceable, and modern wood pipes are now just flat sawn poplar.

@Chris9017: 👍That’s very true. I’ve heard some awesome digital organs. BUT, they just don’t compare very well to an actual pipe organ.

@@bikdav Walkers are VERY good when it comes to Digital Organs, but Allens and Rogers don’t compare. But NONE can hold a candle to a real pipe organ. I only wish St. Peter’s Basilica would have thought this because they NEED a grand and mighty pipe organ in the back!!!

Richmond, Virginia USA

It's in Richmond, Virginia

... aber kein Vergleich zu den Niederländischen Orgelspielen. Schlicht und ergreifend amerikanischer Nachbau im Stil chinesischer Kopierarbeit.

@@ullinator1388 Unverständlich. Sehe keine Chinesen PS Schweizer und Italiener bauen auch topp Instrumente.

@@miorieser3210 Sicher, aber was nutzt ein Top-Instrument, wenn es nicht beseelt gespielt wird.