121 key Mortier/Decap dance organ "Rupel 4" - The Grange / October 2023

[@-K_J-]

Beautiful machine 😍

[@unforgettable256]

Twelfth Street Rag. One of my favourite songs.

[@stephenfletcher1661]

Great videos as always MechanicalMusicTravels. Thanks for taking the time to record the magnificent mechanical instruments at The Grange.

[@MechanicalMusicTravels]

Thank you! Glad you are enjoying my recent videos.

[@wilcovanthillo7402]

@ Peter Mackett The Tremelo is definitely not working well at the jazz-flut as it use too be so that explains the bad sound of it I think. The organ needs further to be completely tuned and a little bit of maintenance, then I’ll wil play perfectly is my honest opinion.

[@harryhonda1695]

Jonny said the trem needs to be rebuilt as it stalls some times and the jazz flute needs new tuning sliders making, a job he will do in the winter, The reed pipes on cm are very flighty and do not hold there tuning needs rebuilding J L also said along with 3 off notes. H

[@MechanicalMusicTravels]

Thank you for the information - great to hear Jonny will address these issues.

[@HarryYT22]

Gosh that organ looks massive! Bet it was even bigger in person. Is it just me or does the organ sound a bit off?

[@MechanicalMusicTravels]

You're right - for some reason in every single video of this organ it always seems to sound a little bit out of tune... I'm not sure why!

[@HarryYT22]

​@@MechanicalMusicTravels Interesting the instrument is actually a Mortier. Is there any difference pipes wise to a Mortier and a Decap?

[@MechanicalMusicTravels]

@@HarryYT22 Yes, a fair few differences! Both organs are voiced differently and feature a few different registers. This Mortier used to be a 101 key instrument but was later converted to 121 key.

[@PeterMackett]

The jazz flutes are definitely out of tune!, and every so often you get a strange sounding register which i think is the Cromorne (Krumhorn) which is voiced very unusually!