Hi it’s good to see you again in here, I really enjoy the things you cover, I have a couple of vintage singer machines I enjoy using also being a musician I enjoy your reed organ, piano and gramophone explanations! Thank you for all these

Great video. Thank you

That was great I was wondering how can I order a this accessory box with all the different stitches of zigzag. I would love to order one if you can put it on the commend section than you so much ❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉

This was a great video. Very informative. I recently ordered one, and had no idea it would be top feeding. That makes me feel like my purchase was way more valuable. I don't know if I'll find it useful, but it would be fun to learn to do zig zag well on my 15 or 201k.

who is the pianist? lovely sound! beautiful tone

Klingt wie ein altes Akkordeon.😢

Very great 👍. I am so glad that I found you here and I subscriebed you. I like this techniqe as an organ builder 😊. Kind regards Alex.

Don't know what I'm looking at but it looks fascinating. On my reed organ it is only a fan vox humana, which is quite a simple contraption.

Amazing😍

Wonderful

Utopia

The smell. The purply-blue ink left on our hands. The memories. Still used one of these when I started teaching music in a rural, far-western NSW (Australia) public school in 1989. I know copiers were around but they were still slow, not great quality and expensive. So most of the time, we made use of the ol' gestetner. I remember making many a template for pieces of music. It couldn't be typed as I needed to make the music lines first and write up the notes to play. The templates we made didn't last for too long. After they'd been through the machine a certain number of times, we had to remake these. For a number of regularly used pieces of music, I used to draw up everything on old (but clean) bedsheets. That way I could use them year after year. This worked better than using butcher's paper. I can't remember even having an overhead projector at this stage but surely I did? It wouldn't have been too convenient though as we would have needed to use several sheets for one piece of music. We couldn't exactly play the piece and stop every time we needed to put up the next page! In looking at this now, I'm surprised that the mechanism didn't include automated copying (ie electric). We had to hand-crank every copy. Is that odd or common?

What's still puzzling me after literally 40 years is how would you produce the master from an existing printed sheet

I love this , but I sure wish you could share the smell of that old machine. lol

the primary school which I attended in the mid-90s used to have this machine. I can still remember the cranking sound it make as the man manually turns the hand crank to make photocopies of test papers. the outcome was not always clean, and sometimes one can see a bit of splattered ink here and there on the paper.

Buongiorno, sai dirmi di che anno e questa macchina . Grazie

Can you tell me what notes you where playing at 1:32? I like the Melody there a lot

I was did once a Internship in my local Bechstein store and it was pretty intressting to see how they sell Pianos but that grand have a nice and rich tone! Hope it´s still in tune and a playble condition

hmm I think I heard that piece somewhere once😊 beautiful playing! also nice how you activate the switch that make the keys play along I don´t know how you call it in english but in german you call it bass koppel (bass) and diskant Koppel (upper voice)

Ah! What a wonderful performance! Dear organist! I congratulate and wish you all the best to perform well in many stages, recording studios, orchestras, concert halls, theatres, schools, colleges, churches and wherever you are invited!

This is cool! I love pipe organs and this reed organ sounds nice. Is it using an electric vacuum pump?

my 5th grade teacher had one back in 89' or 90' he used blue ink.

Thank you. Well done. You did justice to this monumental fugue. I hope you keep up the good work!

Thanks for the tour of the inside of the organ with the music.

This wonderful video brought back memories. My partner Bruce Dracott asked me to post the following which may be of interest: The John Holt Reed Organ at Knowle. "We first met this splendid instrument some time in the later 1990s. It had had little or no attention for many years. Our brief was to make things work that didn’t work, and make things stop working that wouldn’t stop. Basically this meant overhauling the stop action, dealing with cyphers (as far as possible), putting silent reeds back on speech, and sorting out the winding. As you have probably heard in the recordings, quieting the pedal action was not part of the job! If this sounds fairly straightforward, remember that this is a mechanical action 3 M+P organ with all the reeds and action inside the console, so getting at almost any of the moving or speaking parts usually requires a lot of dismantling, including the beautiful case itself. We returned in spring 2001 to tune it up for its 75th anniversary recital. Tuning took two full days with a certain amount of (informed?) guesswork, mainly because of a 5C temperature rise between the first and second days. We made quite a good recording of the recital. The organ sounded and behaved very well in a truly punishing work-out covering music of many periods." Bruce and I are now blissfully retired in Finistère, Brittany.

Wonderful design, angled stop jambs , & narrow bottom half of the organ facilitating closer RCO ergonomic standards

Concerning tempo: most organists take the tempi too fast! Listen therefore to Albert Schweitzer 1935 and at the organ in Gunsbach (somewhat slower) and you shall hear that your tempo is quite o k !

Z means you're o k !

Z

I have a cabinet very similar to the one you are showing. I was able to raise the machine by pushing the button on the front but now can't seem to find the release mechanism to lower the machine. The button to raise the machine did not pop back out when the machine was raised. Any thoughts that might help?

I love it. Very very good. 👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻😊❤❤👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I am attempting to learn to treadle...OMG it is NOT easy!

I have a Singer 191J on a treadle, super powerful once you get comfy using it.

Love those old machines. Thank you for sharing.

you lucky to have one, you should restored this machine and used it if you are a bushcrafter or an outdoorsy tpye of person, or keep this a souvenir, as it s probably over 100 years old. and woth every penny in gold than the modern rubbish you find everywhere, and they still fetch a good price. it will last you your life time. thanks for posting. i grew with one .

Love the sound of this especially at lower/slow speeds. Make me want one now.

Nice to see it resurrected, there’s a little loop on the cover plate that the thread goes through on its way to the needle

The leather tab is to add in removing the bobbin drawer, the slide arm locks back on itself and prevent direct downward movement without unlocking, presumably by a upward motion. Think of how your elbows can support your weight when fully extended without using muscle strength by hyperextetending just a bit so the force is resting on the joint.

These streamlined treadles are extremely rare in my area. In fact, I've only seen one, ever. Coupled with a 201k, I would cheerfully paid a premium for it.

Now that is wonderfully quiet.

Is this available

I remember this machine, when I was in elementary school back in year 2006

Very nice. Thanks for sharing. I like the No.4, however I have an older machine with an Exhibition which is just more convenient to use for me at the moment. Thanks 😀 👍

Tenho uma idêntica, com a base de madeira, pintada de preto, como a sua. Mas o móvel nao existe mais. Uma pena.

Awesome improvisation.

Today, Gestetner makes copy machines. I just saw one of their modern day copiers at the Los Angeles Public Library (El Sereno branch).

Love it

For a moment there I thought singer made a sewing machine for left handers! The backwards Singer script gave it away!

That was most impressive, in every respect.

Olá! Toco em um órgão exatamente igual a esse, porém mais antigo! Ele fica em uma igreja Anglicana, em Santos - SP Brasil.