Atlantic City Convention Hall Pipe Organ - Hess Collection HQ

[@lowenherzaliasandyg.7493]

Thank you for this video. I am immensely proud to have learned such a great craft.

[@larryhageman8163]

Outstanding! History is finally persevered the correct way.

[@haroldsmith8698]

THE PIPE ORGAN AND HOW IT IS BUILT DURING THE HISTORY OF THE INSTRUMENT I FIND QUITE FACINATING AND WORTH MY STUDY OF THE INSTRUMENT. FROM THE WATER ORGAN DOWN THROUGH TIME UNTIL THIS DAY AND TIMETILL TODAY. NO OTHER MUSIC LIKE IT IF PLAID BY A GOOD ORAGONIST..

[@MrTransalpin]

What a beautiful console, with 1/2 circle aspect with 7 manuals and 1 pedalboard !

[@CryTears1]

Ohmagosh....@ 6:00 my all time favorite piece!...we were in Austira, in a church with huge pipe organ and someone was playing my favorite and had it wide open... I thought I'd died an gone to Heaven... in my world, there's nothing better than a pipe organ AND a good artist playing it.

[@Blahbevava]

Something So Magnificent during this era! The Visual Art Deco, The Electric Age of Technology And the mysterious Transitional Gateway Into the Modern World!! The First Time in many ways Man-Kind was successfully able to defy Nature, Sickness, and the Darkness Of The Night!! It brings tears to my eyes when I hear the Brilliant sound of this organ shine as it is like the sound of that defiance and Joy of those voices all crying out against that darkness that we are all now free from!!

[@robertmcelwain5179]

I used to own a CD titled Bach on the Biggest, which was on the Boardwalk Organ.

[@MultiBlue75]

The larger organ is currently under restoration. I took a private tour of both organs and I was able to hear both. The larger organ's right side has issues(mostly tuning and leaking issues)but is playable. Money is tight and it takes alot of time to get things done. The left stage chamber has a huge portion removed and is being restored right now. The Curator said it will be awhile for it to be restored. However, the smaller organ is almost completely restored and sounds good.

[@Herr_strauss91]

@MultiBlue75 Please don't apologize! Thank you for taking your time to give me a good description of its' current state, and what it was like. All the more reason I will see this titan pipe organ in the very near future. I guess I'm an organ enthusiast of sorts! once again, THANK YOU SO MUCH! :-D!!!!

[@VinylToVideo]

Hopefully they keep the thing maintained now that it's fixed!

[@gods_supportministry]

Good thanks keep it up

[@glenm5034]

Vic, Thanks for the video. Never knew Atlantic City had an organ like this in the convention center. Hope it has survived Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

[@OrganMusicYT]

@furrypeanut1 When it was first built it was fully operational, till 1944 when the basement of the hall was flooded, ruining the combination action. It was fully functional right up till the early 60s.

[@XY_Dude]

Organ on a mind-numbing scale!

[@AnOrganCornucopia]

If I'm not much mistaken, this all comes from Robert Elmore's LP "Bach on the Biggest", which is indeed on this Midmer-Losh.

[@bendito999]

1000 horsepower = 745,700 watts of epic organ surround sound! That's more than some radio stations! It is the Bugatti Veyron of organs!

[@nexgenhippy]

nice upload very rare pics thank you :)

[@Clockmaniac5445]

Fred Hess-Rest In Peace ='(

[@jcmkosten]

splendid organ.

[@burtward895]

Trying to visualize that with so many pipes, do many of them just sit there waiting for their feet to get hot with fire so they can scream. I mean it has such a huge selection of pipes, are the trustees and caretakers going to cycle through them every now and then. I guess I should take the intro to organ construction at my alma matter, O.U. The locaton of the American Organ institute. They have a large pipe manufacturing shop, a console shop, an assembly shop, leather shop, and storage area with numerous partial theatre organs waiting their turn. OU has started jamming pipe organs in just about any space they can find. I tell you I got my degree there about 6 years too early.

[@knotyacht]

Beautiful

[@MultiBlue75]

@poopingeneral The Grand Ophecleide works too. It is loud, but from the stage or the console, it is not deafening. The left main chamber has a huge section out of it for repair and the upper levels aren't functional. The space in the chambers is really tight. The wood used is really beautiful. The people in charge are really nice and encourage people to take a tour of it. And the smaller ballroom organ is almost completely restored. It sounds really good. Sorry if my posts are long :)

[@Mike-kc8rl]

This instrument is awe inspiring! Not only in sound but the pure magnitude of its unsurpassed size and these photos show a glimpse of what the public never will see? Those pipes must have cost a fortune to make and i believe there are more than 33,000 of them! How much of this work in progress is playable in this year 2022? The pure cost of its restoration/ up keep must be taken stock of too? There will never be another and lets be honest could one be built today?

[@MultiBlue75]

@poopingeneral The tour I took was about 2 hours. It is huge! The right side main chamber was somewhat operational. I did get to hear that. My father knows the curator so I was able to just play notes or chords LOL. I don't play piano, but I know just basic things to make notes. It was out of tune, but it sounded reasonably good. For its age, most of it is in pretty good shape. The big 64 foot pipe works well and has a deep vibrating sound.

[@Chefpavel]

I remember hearing this organ as a very young child (1950s) and being amazed at the power and seemingly endless reverb in the massive space. It is pitiful that it has fallen into such disrepair. A roof replacement could have saved most of the water-damaged chambers that now will cost 20 times what a new roof could have prevented. I find subtle irony in that the two largest pipe organs in the world are within 60 miles of each other. Was it to compete with the Wanamaker organ in Philadelphia?

[@sigglass2183]

Were all the organ chambers functional in the 1950s?

[@praestant8]

I think you may be confusing this a bit with the Wanamaker organ which did start it's life as a 5 manual built by LA Art. The Midmer-Losh of ACCH however, was designed from the beginning to be huge with all of its uniqueness.

[@chem100]

This is heard in "King of Jazz Boys of the Band" here on KZbin but I don't know the title. I agree with you completely.

[@paulj0557tonehead]

***** It's actually quite amazing the organ had the beautiful tone that it does have considering the layout of the convention space. What doesn't sound better in a cathedral? Still, I love the softer playing on this organ and I'm thrilled it's going again. I use the 'Cathedral' reverb setting on my computer's Sound Blaster card all the time to listen to various 'dry' recorded organs. [If in Sound Blaster-open Creative,click Audio Console, then EAX, then 'Cathedral' & adjust the slider for mix].

[@furrypeanut1]

There is still a lot left to be done, although work on the Right Stage chamber is close to completion, i believe, and most (or all) of the Swell chamber has been removed for cleaning and tuning. So progress is being made.

[@chem100]

Among My Souvenirs

[@donaldnewsom1619]

Music in order of "appearance" All selections performed by Robert Elmore Dulci Jubilo performed on the Midmer-Losh Opus 5550 auditorium Trumpet Voluntary performed on the Kimball Opus 7073 ballroom Wachet Auf! Midmer-Losh Liebesfreund Abridged Kimball Caprice Viennois Kimball Old Refrain Kimball Stars and Stripes Forever Kimball

[@JIMD6370]

Where is the other organ you spoke of?

[@nexgenhippy]

@321pocoyo best idea is to google 'pipe organ combination action', as its quite complex, theres a wikipedia page on it among other things.

[@thomfaircloth3642]

I wish Vic had put the names of each of the pipes shown in the video. I have never seen so many of these pipes before.

[@kiqw]

Amazing, simply amazing. Back in the fifties I had an LP entitled "Bach on the Biggest". I wonder if it is still available. I am sure that the organ was in fairly good shape at that time.

[@OrganMusicYT]

@danielmkubacki once the swell organ is back in after restoration and the dead magnets in the right stage are fixed, 1/3rd of the organ will be playable. Progress may be slow, but on a project of this scale, it is going to be, the swell organ alone has around 4 or 5 thousand pipes.

[@JohnNozum]

You have some neat pictures here! I have a thing about large pipe organs! From John Nozum

[@yoloman2.091]

Here I'm from germany

[@AnOrganCornucopia]

I say that having only got 9 minutes in myself, then hearing something that definitely isn't Bach, showing how good a theatre organ the M-L is!

[@gaius_enceladus]

It'd be great to be able to say that you've got the biggest organ in the world...... ;)

[@OrganMusicYT]

@fourstar7 well.......considering its the largest musical instrument ever built.......its goin to be BIG. It takes 4 or 5 hours to tour through the entire instrument

[@furrypeanut1]

@tonymarru in number of ranks, yes. it has 466 as opposed to 449 on this one. but the ranks have more pipes individually on this one, giving it around 5000 pipes more than the wanamaker organ.

[@Finistereny]

Bach's chorale prelude on :Wachet auf ruft uns the Stimme," BWV 645, one of the best-known Bach compositions.

[@RRsalin]

@nexgenhippy Thank you, that's a quite interesting mechanism!

[@smartestmanonnet]

Unbelievable! How did we just let it die?

[@danielmkubacki]

WILL THEY EVER GET THE MIDMER LOSH FIXED?? I may be in my 80's befor is 100%LOL

[@furrypeanut1]

@steelersfanhawaii It's never been more than about 90% operational. That was in the 50's. And It will probably be a while before it's even close to that state again unfortunately.

[@Ken_Weber_organist]

all that wind piping looks like the piping from the reactor compartment of a Trident class balistic missile submarine

[@KPO6859]

Out of curiousity, if someone really wealthy made a donation of funds, how much would complete restoration of this instrument cost? It is a shame to lose such a magnificent piece of history to time and unuse.

[@fourstar7]

that is a BIG ASS pipe organ.

[@israelrodrigues5291]

simplesmente Maravilhoso!

[@furrypeanut1]

Would anyone know the name of the song beginning around @10:07 ? On a semi-related note,I love those Tibias...

[@jorgeandrade20]

When the organ is on but no one is playing it, where does the air go??

[@furrypeanut1]

The more theatre-style pieces were recorded on the Kimball in the Ballroom. Certainly not to say that the ML does not make a good theatre organ, as it does. We just don't get to hear that here.

[@bigPianist99]

I feel sorry for the guy that has to tune the pipes

[@Herr_strauss91]

@danielmkubacki I think once the money is ready and available and more publicity is given, I then it will get back to restored order.

[@OrganMusicYT]

$1 for each ticket sold, from willing bands/musicians would help make a difference, especially if they were given a tour just to see whats involved.....

[@flyurway]

Very nice video. What a masterpiece of engineering, I can't even begin to imagine the 100's of miles of wiring for the relays and combination actions - just for starters. Does anyone know the prognosis of this behemouth ever acheiving even close to 100%? Pretty doubtful I'd think considering it never even has been, but it would be something to see. Sorry though, but that is one butt ugly main console! :)

[@aw454321]

Why are all the comments essays?

[@omnitone]

ikr

[@patrickrichmond9896]

It seems that not one site is working that has the DVD. The Organ Historical Society's catalog is down and I am not sure what year it will be put back up so I can get a hold of my copy of the DVD.

[@vicferrer1]

The Organ Historical Society is currently moving their physical location to Stoneleigh Estate, in Villanova, Pennsylvania. The OHSCATALOG may be temporarily down as they move servers, libraries, archives and inventory. I can assure you it will be back online soon. To read more about this very exciting evolution of our cherished organization, please go to: organhistoricalsociety.org/stoneleigh/

[@Tetsuo315]

nice view of the diaphones

[@Herr_strauss91]

@MultiBlue75 how long did the tour take, and did you get to play it? oh and how loud was it?

[@furrypeanut1]

@3dwurli That's interesting. I suppose I heard the wrong info.

[@Ken_Weber_organist]

anybody know when the last time the ENTIRE organ was fully operational?

[@JIMD6370]

steelersfanhawaii 1944 is what I heard.

[@bigPianist99]

Well bill gates be like "i'll take three"

[@sigglass2183]

Was that the Fanfare or Echo Division being heard throughout this video?

[@MegaMobass]

As far as I am aware there aren’t any recordings of galleries 1-4 or the echo and fanfare as the relays for galleries 2, 4, echo, and fanfare are in the ceiling, and were subsequently damaged when the hurricane happened, long before any commercial recordings happened. The “Bach on the biggest” was recorded in ‘55 I believe and there was about as much playable then as is now. However I could be entirely wrong, but from what things I’ve been able to gather the fanfare and echo haven’t been heard since ‘44 and likewise with galleries 1-4

[@sigglass2183]

@@MegaMobass One of the restoration staff members said all the said organ chambers were last heard sometime between the 50s and 60s.

[@MegaMobass]

FriedFrudda I’d be inclined to think they’re correct, but in their most recent video they posted, the virtual tour as it were, Scott banks mentioned that the organ lost a lot of her functionality after the hurricane and she was never the same since.

[@dontillman]

It seems like you might be using PhotoMagico?

[@locoCP1900]

Were the musics recorded in this organ?

[@OrganNLou]

I've noticed you no longer make films about the convention hall organ, what happened?

[@JIMD6370]

Money

[@patrickrichmond9896]

I wanted to download this video but the program "YTD downloader says this video is not available". And the reason why I wanted this video is because of the song at 16:55. I would love to know the name of the song that starts at that time frame. Vic do you know the name of the piece at that time frame that I am inquiring about?

[@thomfaircloth3642]

That is "The Old Refrain."

[@RRsalin]

How a mechanical system can "remember" the stops combination?

[@omnitone]

321pocoyo t e c h n o l o g y

[@sledgehog1]

20 million dollars.

[@mitchbrinton931]

It would sound better in a cathedral, but that is just my opinion. :)

[@liamgorman1421]

the acoustics of the hall are better than you think they are lol

[@Timyboy1234]

Whats the name of the song at 6:00

[@LeendertCordemans]

Dear, the song is, "wachet auf, ruft uns die stimme" BWV 645 J.S.Bach. from sechs schübler choräle BWV 645-650.

[@pfretz13]

What is the name of the third tune that starts at 6:00?

[@danielponder690]

"Wachet Auf ruft uns die stimme" BWV 645, from the 6 Schubler Chorales by JS Bach (from Cantata 140 pt 2)

[@pfretz13]

Daniel Ponder Chorale + Bach = This version here sounds like an arrangement for organ. Know who arranged it?

[@danielponder690]

Paul Fretz Bach himself did. It's part of the Sechs Schubler Orgelchorale, kind of cool what he did, adapted these from various cantatas and sources

[@volespam]

Daniel Ponder This one is arranged from his Cantata 140, by the same name.

[@stevenbartley6088]

Great photos. Why all the bombastic music? The viewer is overwhelmed with sfz.

[@OrganMusicYT]

Hardly "bombastic"... and it's all historic recordings of the Midmer Losh and it's smaller Kimball cousin in the buildings Ballroom.

[@RonN448]

To aw454321 (a.k.a. Whiney Pants): WHY? Oh, that's an easy question! It's because some people have the brains and the ability to carry on an intelligent conversation online, unlike thee!

[@ReflectedMiles]

Kind of complicated and expensive for an old typewriter--and makes a lot of noise, too.

[@fabiangres6871]

Whats the name of the song at 10:07

[@vicferrer1]

Liebesfreud by Kreisler performed by Robert Elmore on the "Boardwalk Pipes" album - Ballroom Kimball organ - 1956

[@vicferrer1]

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[@vicferrer1]

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[@fabiangres6871]

@@vicferrer1 Thank you

[@vicferrer1]

@@fabiangres6871 Here is a Soundcloud link to more Robert Elmore music on the M-L & Kimball: soundcloud.com/search?q=robert%20elmore%20organ