Allen HO85 Tour with Maestro Hector Olivera

[@eddiebeato5546]

Maestro Héctor Olivera! Paying my high respects for this wonderful musician, organist and human being of the finest kind. May he continue filling our hearts with the joy of music. Ed. Beato

[@tom7601]

Amen brother!

[@snickpickle]

NOTHING beats a real pipe organ! But my goodness, this thing is amazing -- and it would fit into my house, to boot! So much fun to listen to a master play this. Beautiful! Congratulations to Allen Organ for a most excellent organ that's way more affordable than a full pipe organ, and sounds terrific!

[@mrjfs75]

O Hector oh. Exquisitely done, Quick, no time wasting. Contra Bombard 32’. Hit it again. Divine things.

[@kellingc]

Thank you for this tour. Not only did I learn about this instrument, but organs in general.

[@edyoung8014]

Aside from the well established majesty of his musicianship, I know from personal experience there is no finer organ design engineer than Hector. It's about time an instrument carried his name! This organ is an awesome reflection of Hector's deep love for the performance of classically oriented compositions of all varieties. And knowing Hector, he, no doubt, made sure a talented musician can even coax a surprising range of the pops repertoire from the wide and well thought out tonal range of this organ's state-of-the-art digital technology.

[@Highinsight7]

This gent is not only one of thee VERY GREATEST organists ever...!!! he's also one heck of a GUY!!!

[@MidwestorganFixer]

This is an amazing organ! Hector is a wonderful musician and it is wonderful to hear him describe it also. I hope this instrument makes a huge impact on the purchases of fine organs in churches today. Great work Steve on the direction of your company!!! I service some Allen organs in my area of different years of manufacturing. I love the support the service and parts people provide to me in performing this work. The ONLY company that truly supports the end user.... the customer better than ANY other company in existence!

[@judymuse3738]

You are amazing, Hector! I thoroughly enjoyed your demonstration of the Allen organ. I was fortunate to have my own at home when I was an organ student. My husband and I actually drove through corn fields in Macungie, PA to get to the Allen Organ Co. Showrooms where we chose the perfect one!

[@haraldbirk964]

A wonderful organ

[@clisma]

Amazing Celeste Stops great job

[@philorgue]

Absolument Extraordinaire pour un Instrument sans Tuyaux ! Merci

[@derekverveer6058]

Great demonstration, I can't help but notice how massive his hands are though. Great video! I especially love how the 32' shakes the camera.

[@joer3481]

Pure excellence from an excellent musician 😊

[@ubarhd1]

Amazing performance very informative thanks 👏🏻👏🏻

[@jtwoolley]

this is magnifecent! I want to play this organ someday!

[@MrKeys57]

what was that piece of music until 9:30, you say "wow isnt that beatuiful"? - it really touched me! - thanks, Levi

[@mmaybrown]

This is really incredible!

[@paulussantosociwidjaja4781]

Extraordinaire Musical GrandPa not only for his family, but also to some of us into the musical instrument distributorship all over the world. Always amazed by his playing.

[@fnersch3367]

Great disposition and wonderful pantheon of sound. I just might get myself one of these.

[@accousticdecay]

Fantastic!

[@jean-paul7251]

Absolutely great!

[@TurtleFL]

Best organ demo I've ever seen. But of course it would be since it's Hector Olivera. :->

[@user-jx3jp3gb4x]

WOW! This Allen is fantastic! And of course so is Hector :)

[@tambrosia]

BRAVO to

[@9fq6z]

Wow ............!

[@Highinsight7]

what's the very first thing he plays... I JUST LOVE it!

[@aocvideo]

Toccata, by Denis Bédard

[@russeflat13]

Heard him play in the 1970's

[@MerlynAStern]

I missed the green froggy ! Hector Olivera, I am so glad you are now on a real classical organ. The Allen is the best organ in the world. Only some of the big pipe organs can compete.

[@peterwarner358]

Hector, what is the stop list for thus organ? How many channels? Any diapaison on the pedals? My GF has a younger sister who is learning the organ on a Schlicker Pipe Organ. Her instrument is a 7 manual with 107 ranks (divisions Pedal, accompanied, solo, Great, Swell, Positiv, choir and Orchestral). What arw the buttons at the sides of the manuals for? I kniw that there arw generally general piston buttons under the manuals as well as division pistons and tutti.

[@aocvideo]

Peter, many of your questions can be answered by reviewing the webpage for the HO85 www.allenorgan.com/church-organs/ho85.html

[@contraposaune]

What's he playing at the start?

[@aocvideo]

The piece is the ending of Toccata from suite 1 of Dennis Bedar, a Canadian organist/ composer.

[@contraposaune]

@@aocvideo ah yes I have some of his stuff. Thanks!

[@dank1280]

I’m curious why he he is referring to the great as the bottom manual? In most 3 manual instruments I’ve encountered the great is the middle manual with the choir on bottom and swell on top. Is that not the case for this instrument?

[@aocvideo]

The HO-85 manual layout is standard: Swell at the top, then Great followed by the Choir. Hector is using the GT-CH TRANSFER coupler for this demonstration as he is used to playing French works where thumbing up or down is needed to play the piece properly. Switching the manuals using this coupler makes this all possible. We apologize for not pointing this out at the beginning of this demonstration. For a look at the HO-85 Stop List you can view it here www.allenorgan.com/church-organs/ho85.html

[@tambrosia]

If you cannot get a PIPE ORGAN, then Go to ALLEN

[@andrewspencer4843]

Fantastic!