Bach in the Bass | Passacaglia - Part 1

[@edgarlebig2994]

Tout gosse déjà, cette musique d'orgue de Bach me fascinait.

[@andrew_mcnevin]

Please bring this series about the passacaglia back 🙏🏻

[@FraserGartshore]

There’s a whole new series of learning repertoire coming soon!

[@dickydoes]

‘Bach had BIG balls’. Yep.

[@peterking2794]

Beautifully presented, as always! And easy for a non musical oaf such as I to follow! I played on the linoleum as a child, but that was about it! I sometimes watch your splendid videos in German, and even find those possible to follow without a great deal of difficulty. Thank you so much!

[@jacques7315]

What a way to start 2020. The Passacaglia is one of my absolute favorite pieces, can't get enough it. Thanks for the video!

[@jongvyn]

Happy New Year, thanks for this video being entertaining and professional as always!

[@stevenbercik2099]

Thank you for making all of this great content.

[@Pants4096]

Looks like 2020 will be a great year if we get to see more wonderful videos like this! Of course the technical aspects of videography and great sound quality are important and you (and your camera person!) do them well, but it's your delightful personality that really keeps me watching. Keep up the great work!

[@bedriasanders5037]

Your enthusiasm is infectious. Want to run to the nearest Cathedral and have a go. Played when a teenager on wonderful organ at a Presbyterian church.

[@Advent22mix]

Very excited for the coming year! It sounds like there's lots more wonderful content on the way. It is such a pleasure to see you working on one of my all time favourite pieces of music. I know you said variation 3 is a trio-like devil but I'm almost tempted to say it's my favourite variation. It has such a beautiful yet longing melody woven into it. Douglas Amrine really brings it out in his recording of the Cmin P&F on pedal harpsichord. I've never managed to successfully tackle var. 3 myself. I always get that confusing alto line tangled between the right and left hands. I'm only an amateur though. As for the pedal technique police, I say play it the way that speaks to you. Music is best when made honestly after all.

[@oparockt8885]

oops - after 30 seconds I realized that I have choosen the english Version. Will change now to the version I will understand even better.

[@curtrueckert3796]

I honestly don't think that I have laughed so much at an organ video before! Thanks for making it so entertaining!

[@vincenzopio7382]

You are my favourite organist, thank you for your music and videos!!

[@georgekatkins]

Wunderbar! It is a real treat to hear how a musician works through learning a piece of music. Your candor, to say nothing of your talent, makes this video as informative as it is entertaining and musical.

[@pantazos2954]

YES! Finally you made a video about this wonderful piece of music!

[@farahmohammed1963]

OMG! I’m learning this right now, and I am so excited to see your video!! It is because of this piece, that I actually took up the organ. Learning to play this would be a dream come true for me!!! What a wonderful way to start the year with this video.... in my case, it was certainly meant to be!😊🌺🎶💕

[@timlong7289]

Legend! P&F in Cm is just about my favourite piece of Bach I often listen to it at bedtime. I find it very meditative and it quiets my mind, great for relaxation. Looking forward to the Grand Performance :)

[@aaronspidle4019]

Bach’s minor songs are really beautiful.

[@georgellendorff]

Oh, thank you for the sophisticated lesson.

[@AndrewMundellAndrewJMundell]

Very technical video but very enjoyable the same Fraser. Happy New Year Frazer to your and your wife. Looking Forward to a great 2020 here on your Channel. No one on here could ever hate you Maestro

[@richardjtaylor8545]

I wish I could play organ like this. My church's organ is hardly a recital instrument and it in horrible condition😂. Either way I still try my best and I love your videos Fraser. Keep up the good work and keep up the outstanding playing👍

[@Zoom_1012]

LOL at 9:20 ... "the footie part" 😂 Paul 🌴☀️🌴

[@moldenburg909]

Happy new year, you choose a beautiful piece. Nice to see it coming to live and be happy that humans don’t got 8 hands( and feet) Bach would use them altogether! Thank you for sharing.

[@robi9558]

Fantastisch! Oops I mean great! Nice skilful playing, lovely sound and interpretation. Das find' ich geil.

[@jezm1703]

One of my Bach favourites ! Interesting to see it dissected, so to speak. Looking forward to the rest. It really is a dramatic piece - I first heard it played by Peter Hurford. I requested it at our wedding and the organist duly obliged - playing as much as he could !! BTW Peter Hurford was awfully good at the Trio Sonatas !! Loved the jazz piece at the end.

[@NHENDU161]

I enjoy your videos. You remind me of my grandfather from Essen. Thank you.

[@peterallison5021]

This is my FAVOURITE Bach piece, and have many recordings of it, all played/registered differently

[@kingtony4514]

Amazing, keep up the great work

[@RenzoColameoIrlanda]

Grazie mille, Maestro. Have a Beautiful 2020 !!! Love & hugs to all of you: Renzo * :-)

[@wheelsntraks]

Fraser your videos are always wonderful. I'm not a musician but I agree that 'guidelines' set by others such as not using your heels on the pedal board are just that. I'm sure that loving Bach's organ works as we all do you also feel it at a fundamental level and need to be at ease. Perform the works as you feel best as that's when enjoyment is most apparent in the result!

[@bobh5087]

Very enjoyable "master class." 👍 I learned this wonderful piece in undergraduate school and it has always been a huge favorite - it's such a satisfying and enriching thing to play, with so many *wonderful possibilities* vis à vis registrations, manual changes, phrasing, articulation, and so forth. My undergrad organ prof was a great Francophile/phone and studied with Langlais, etc. in Paris, so (naturally) we all used the *Dupré editions* for nearly *everything!* Dupré's profuse, helpful, and reliable fingerings were always an accurate and valuable "tutor" for us budding organists, learning the required "touch" - and for this reason I highly recommend them. For all us "professional" organists out here: could you please give *specific stop names* rather than just saying "flute(s)" etc. You *did* mention the lovely *Quintatön* stop, so thank you for that. Looking forward to seeing how this develops and matures over coming videos.

[@PointyTailofSatan]

BTW, on a related note, in honor of Bach, Godowsky also wrote an amazing Passacaglia and Fugue for the piano based on the theme of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony. Godowsky was famous for both his mastery of counterpoint, and for writing pieces so difficult, many concert performers treat them like they were radioactive. Godowsky's Passacaglia is one of these! Check it out! kzbin.info/www/bejne/nGHRnX2OpNR8jMU

[@XMarkxyz]

Really outstanding, thankyou for the suggestion

[@geoffreyatherton4224]

Happy Hogmanay! Ich wuensche Ihr beide Prosit Neujahr. I love this ever since seeing Rudolf Nureev dance Le Jeun Homme et La Mort, many years ago.

[@Joggelschorsch]

Yeeees. Let's play that for the next few years instead of the toccata

[@hdrenginedevelopment7507]

Yes thank you for looking at the very reason for life itself that is BWV 582! Lol. This one is my most favorite of all! Looking forward to the next installment.

[@sadiedickson7572]

Hi Fraser and greetings from Scotland. Many thanks for your entertaining and informative videos, enlivened by your cheeky Scottish chappie style. Your videos are aimed more at organists and organ students rather than people like me who have more organ LPs and CDs than they can count (starting with Rogg's 1960s recordings (Metzler at Grossmunster, Zurich, as well as the Arlsheim Silbermann mentioned by Elizabeth). Congratulations as well on the great audio and video quality/camera work-well done Mrs/Frau G! I hope that your followers for whom English is a second language are savouring your beautiful North of Scotland accent as you wax lyrical about Brustwerks and Ruckpositivs. I regret having only a smattering of German, but is someone asking if you now speak English with a German accent? Nein nein nein I say. I hope you're getting some compliments on your German, which sounds very good to me. Best wishes Jim Dickson.

[@MatthiasBolliger]

Beautiful registration and playing.

[@davidcousins5493]

Glad you had a good New Year. Like Rick B, I to do not read music either but really love the "Jazz" section, hoping you will continue to finsid all your videos with a little jazz. By by

[@GaryGP40]

The Passacaglia is one of my all time favorites. I am planning on trying it (thanks to you I have some ideas how to practice it now!) next Tuesday on my pipe organ. I like how you included the registrations (you must have read my mind as I was thinking "what registrations is Fraser using?") - I will need to modify them a little for the organ I play. The low C (C0) sounds a little thin, to me, the Austin I play on the C0 rumbles like a freight train or a deep peal of thunder, especially with the contra octave 16' in the pedal. I SO enjoy your lighthearted approach and incredible technique. I need to get some organ shoes (on order). I believe Bach played heel and toe as well. I have big feet though, so I need to learn more "rolling" towards my big toes on the pedalboard. Keep up the excellent work my friend. I hope one day we meet and maybe you can show me a thing or two, including your magnificent Scottish rrrrrrrrrrrrrolling of your "R's" :)

[@englishfuguefan5872]

To my knowledge The great Bach didn't have internal plumbing and a flush toilet.... does that mean that organists should forgo modern amenities, in order to remain professionally intact? I'm with you all the way!

[@amangogna68]

Really amazing !

[@fjbrady]

This is wonderful. I've been working on this piece for a while and am excited to see how you finger some of the parts. It's been 45 yrs since I last studied the organ, in college. A few years ago I built my organ and have been playing again and sometimes struggle to figure where my fingers should go. I think I'm probably switching them around more than I need to.

[@peterad1529]

I made an effort to hear a real pipe organ for the first time this Christmas at a church near my home. probably inspired by watching your channel. It was at Saint Marks Cathedral in Seattle Washington ... state. I believe it is a Flentrop built in 1965! I look forward to watching your channel In 2020 ☺️

[@englishfuguefan5872]

St. Mark's posts all its services on their youtube channel, they are well worth watching, good music and liturgy.

[@christianchevillot9030]

Bonsoir!Très bien!Amitiés du SUD de la FRANCE!!LIKE 36!

[@christianchevillot9030]

Merci!

[@ZacPB189]

One of my favorite iterations of this Passacaglia (and Fugue) is the Respighi transcription, which, in Respighi fashion, still includes the organ pedals at key points in the work.

[@dinkypinkyify]

Bravo..you have the same opinion of the trio sonatas as myself. Love your teaching style.

[@Mr05241948]

If it would be possible sometime, would you please make a recording of jazzy pieces like you did at the end of this video and some others. It would be so nice for a break from the classics (which I love) and you do it so well. If it could be played and recorded on church organs, so much the better. I hope you will give it some consideration, I think it would be a great seller for you, and a treasured addition to this , and I'm sure other organ fanatics collections.

[@Mr05241948]

@@Monochr0meMan Thanks for letting me know. I appreciate it.

[@FraserGartshore]

The CD has been shipped! I'm awaiting delivery by mid next week! It's a recording of jazzy pieces (with some well-known numbers) inspired by this channel!

[@Mr05241948]

@@FraserGartshore Thats fantastic . Thanks for letting me know. I live in Canada so really hope I will be able to buy one.

[@Mr05241948]

@@FraserGartshore I will give you my personal email [e-mail] If you could let me know the price of the CD and shipping costs ,and I will forward that amount. Thank you

[@patrickmeyer2802]

I think the thing about toes is less about convention, and more about the fact that many organ pedalbords were so short that you couldn't physically put your heels anywhere except the back rail. Having played some original period instruments, and having decently large feet, I can confirm this hypothesis. Most organ "baroque" pedal boards these days have the longer key length specifically so you can use your heels. I certainly don't have a problem with heels. In the pasacaglia it does make some passages easier, but that could very well have been a luxury that Bach himself was never afforded.

[@FraserGartshore]

I also mentioned this in a previous Bach video - there was the inevitable shitstorm regarding pedal technique in baroque music - I have played organs all over the world including amazing original, untouched instruments from yesteryear - and yes, it is practically physically impossible to play with the heels. As for modern instruments - why play with restrictions? If Bach the innovator were alive today and could enjoy the world of registration sequencers, sostenuto, pizzicato, transposing couplers and so on, would he ignore all that technology? I somehow doubt it!

[@PointyTailofSatan]

You need a Glenn Gould style bench, like his famous hand made chair with the seat like 1 foot above the floor. lol

[@webrarian]

Which begs the question, which came first - a need/desire to use the heels which made the keys longer, or the other way round? People were smaller in the past, and I assume that means their feet were in proportion, so you can throw that into the mix as well.

[@Mitchellpilot909]

I love Karl Richter's recording of this song. Very intense.

[@nightwishlover8913]

Song? Who's singing?

[@Mitchellpilot909]

@@nightwishlover8913 you are!

[@jktekkerz8735]

@@Mitchellpilot909Well stated! Bach himself encouraged all students and performers ‘to acquire a cantabile style of playing’.

[@AdrianWilsonBridders1234]

Happy new year Fraser and a great channel by the way. You mentioned cinema organs, I know I’ve informed you before, but Blackpool has 2, one is in the Winter Gardens and as you already know, I think is the greatest of all the Wurlitzer in the Tower Ballroom, it would be great if you could visit the UK and play this mighty instrument as well as being able to play some English organs like the famous Willis organ in Lincoln Cathedral and if you could play in York Minster when it has been rebuilt this year.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

Rock on and #StayHealthy

[@coolcrafter3d690]

A happy new year. 😎

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

This can be played on Pedal Harpsichord and also Pedal Piano which is played like an Organ but it sounds like and is a Piano. The Bass line can be played on a 5 String Bass with a Low B String.

[@willemkossen]

now i have a need to repair my footpedal for the hammond organ i have at home. couple of keys don't work. i'm liking what i hear. i didn't really know that pasacaglia piece. it's nice. i like the gentle darkness of it. also, i'ld like to know if there are adaptations for harpsichord or piano. my feet aren't used to anything but 'tapping to the music'....

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

0:00 And a Happy New Year (or as those Spanish Speaking folks would sing, it would become Y Un Feliz Ano Nuevo)

[@Velostigmat]

Whenever you go jazzy on volles werke, it reminds me of Fats Waller.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

Fraser Gartshore It was originally written for Full Organ (all stops, couplers, & effects turned on) or Pedal Harpsichord but we also have a Pedal Piano:kzbin.info/www/bejne/enebZ2d8mttjrdU & even so Hammond Organ.

[@johnopalko5223]

One of my favorite pieces. I don't have the Urtext. I have an edited edition, but it was edited by Charles-Marie Widor and Albert Schweitzer, so I have confidence it's pretty good! I've never heard the recording you mention. The recording I have and love is E. Power Biggs performing on the D. A. Flentrop organ in the Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard University. Enjoy the twenty-one variations of the Passacaglia that are, as Robert Schumann put it, "intertwined so ingeniously that one can never cease to be amazed."

[@fritzkuhne2055]

looking forward to more content on this ;D

[@pantazos2954]

We need part 2 !

[@FraserGartshore]

Coming to a screen near you soon!

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

All of Bachs inventions are playable on Organ too

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

3:18 Bass line 5 String Bass Tab (Tuning:B, E, A, D, G) A:3, G:0, D:1, 3, G:0, 1, D:3, G:0, D:0, 1, A:2, 3, E:1, 3, B:1 etc.

[@maartenvangnet5180]

i love the video's. Can you vist some churches in The Netherlands? Like the Bovenkerk in Kampen, or the Laurenskerk in Rotterdam?

[@JackReimer]

Question ... will you go thru all the variations with advice and instruction including registration? I plan to relearn as you continue.

[@FraserGartshore]

That’s the plan!

[@peterlewis8313]

What's happened to learning Cesar Franck's Piece Heroique?

[@FraserGartshore]

It’s still on the list - we’re waiting for the “right” organ! 🇫🇷

[@peterlewis8313]

@@FraserGartshore Thank you...all credit to your thoroughness!!

[@MarcusB-qr1hk]

peter lewis thanks for asking that question Peter. I actually asked the same thing!

[@davidredmayne7269]

Bach is certainly rather wonderful!!! 100% agree with your views on playing technique. As a blower, it would be like playing a Bohm system clarinet but only using the Simple system keys :)

[@bryangl1]

NO! Not everybody loves Bach! And Bach lovers are so vociferous they embarrass many who don't love Bach into remaining silent. I have been amazed at the number of people who have quietly said to me that not only Bach, but almost all of the Baroque period is dull for them, but they are afraid to 'admit' it publicly. Yes, I can appreciate the brilliance of his composing, but with few exceptions, this and similar music, as a listener, leaves me cold. My organ teacher was a great Bach enthusiast and promoter, and among other Bach works, including this, I had to learn one of those trio sonatas. Great for developing technique, but otherwise.... Fortunately my teacher, a famous Australian organist, did like the Romantic period as well. I do understand why many people do love Bach, but we are not all the same (and how boring would the world be if we did all have the same tastes?) The problem of the organ remaining in tune brings up another issue at which 'purists' object, and that's the subject of digital instruments. Properly installed, the best of these instruments cannot be distinguished from the real thing. Don't get me wrong, I love the 'real thing' and welcome new installations as well as preservation/restoration of pipe instruments. But digital instruments do have a valid place in the overall scheme of things.

[@TheOpus480]

Hello, I haven't visited your channel in a while but as i was learning a Bach prelude i was wandering whether you could help. I am currently learning Bachs prelude and fugue in a minor bwv 543. But I am only attempting the prelude as the fugue is quite a bit more tricky. But I was wandering whether you could help me on the prelude as I've learn almost all of it. Without pedals so far, but I am stuck on the 3rd page around bar 30 to 33. That whole page seems tricky. In tempo and timing. Any advice many thanks

[@rickb9238]

I loved the very last part of the video when you played the “Jazz” music. I do not read music and don’t understand much about it at all. I remember FACE and EGBDF and Treble Clef and Bass Clef and time signatures and I’m done.😳🤔😬🥺

[@vinny142]

Happy 2020 organpeople!

[@webrarian]

Listening to your outro...you know what would be really stunning? You playing one of Eric Coates's jazz-inspired pieces. Or, preferably, all of them. I've no idea if organ transcriptions exist, but I doubt if that would be a problem for a man of your abilities. "The Three Bears" and the final movement of "Four Centuries" to start with...

[@FraserGartshore]

Now you're talking! I met Sidney Torch when he was an old-old man - we talked about Coates a lot - Sidney arranged a lot of his music in his own inimitable style. Wonderful music.

[@espressonoob]

I'm not really an organist, but I'm curious what you think of Charles-Valentin Alkan? Do Organist like his music? I'm only really familiar with baroque organ music, nothing past that.

[@FraserGartshore]

Too many notes for me! When I was younger I tried out a few of his crazy pieces on the piano - I gave up!😂

[@espressonoob]

@@FraserGartshore That's kinda what I thought, romantic organ music can be insane...

[@andrewashdown3541]

You remind me of Michael Gove .. the melodramatic gestures and 'please pay attention' expression

[@FraserGartshore]

What a horrible thing to say! Nobody can be that bad!

[@andrewashdown3541]

Hah - not you as a person, obviously - but just to draw yr attention to some rather Baroque (?) hand & facial antics!

[@kassemir]

"only using 4 fingers" - I honestly can't believe that was a thing, not using the thumbs just seems counter intuitive to me, they great for reach and anchoring your hands on the keys. Learn something new everyday, I guess :)

[@FraserGartshore]

Seems so pointless, doesn't it. It was however a thing. My organ Prof forced me to play Frescobaldi with four fingers on a poxy little portative organ. Naturally I rebelled by memorising Vierne and Widor and burning my Frescobaldi music. (Only part of that statement is true...)😂

[@kassemir]

@@FraserGartshore again, even more weird to enforce that today. Especially on organ where there's no preassure sensitivity in the keys :) Sounds the same no matter what fingers you're using, right? :D

[@poohslosteyes264]

21:09

[@mhzellers]

I'm really looking forward to your series on the Passacaglia and Fugue in Cm. Always one of my favorites. You might want to mention that the first part of the theme was borrowed from "Christe: Trio en passacaille from Messe du deuxieme ton of the Premier livre d'orgue." by Andre Raison. It took me a while to track down a recording of that (back before the Internet was a thing). As for heals vs. no heals, I'm right with you. My money would be on Bach using his heals, even if that was not the common practice back in the day. Perhaps you are familiar with Virgil Fox who often raved against the "purists". On the album Heavy Organ, in the intro to the Toccata and Fugue in Dm (BWV565), he said: “There is current in our land (and several European countries) at this moment a kind of nitpicking worship of historic impotence. They say that Bach must not be interpreted and that he must have no emotion, that his notes speak for themselves. You want to know what that is? Pure unadulterated rot! Bach has the red blood. He has the communion with the people. He has all of this amazing spirit. And imagine that you could put all the music on one side of the agenda with his great interpretation and great feeling and put the greatest man of all right up on top of a dusty shelf underneath some glass case in a museum and say that he must not be interpreted! They're full of you-know-what and they're so untalented that they have to hide behind this thing because they couldn't get in the house of music any other way!”

[@FraserGartshore]

Hi Mark - yep, series continues soon! You’re right about the historical stuff - I’m doing simultaneous blog posts on my website on this one - too much info for a video alone. As for Fox - he didn’t care what people thought - he just went for it. The organ world could do with that kind of “fresh air” to keep it alive and kicking. Sadly there aren’t many fresh air aficionados out there - surprising really, as a lot of organ freaks tend to have their noses in the air most of the time! (Cue barrage of comments!)

[@AndrewWilsonStooshie]

Bach was a brilliant improviser, so he'd probably have used whatever it took to get the effect he wanted.

[@mikethemagitian1156]

I love the Lionel Rogg recordings! I think you must be thinking of the Metzler Organ, Grossmunster?

[@johntaliaferrothompson6052]

Fraser Gartshore is it possible to play any rock & roll or rockabilly music on the real pipe organ like swipe the key on the Hammond electric organ will it hurt finger or damage the organ keyboard? If possible please try the John Lennon & Paul Mc Cartney 'Get Back' on the pipe organ.

[@elizabetharendse8006]

The Lionel Rogg recording I think Fraser was referred to was recorded at Arlesheim in Switzerland on the historic Silbermann Organ.

[@chrisweddle2577]

Happy new year Fraser! Did you realise that "outwith" is a Scottish word? I've been using it all my life and only discovered that recently.

[@FraserGartshore]

We invented everything up there!😜

[@PointyTailofSatan]

I'm curious. What are those tabs above the stops? Are they stop specific couplers?

[@FraserGartshore]

See earlier videos - it's all explained!

[@richardjtaylor8545]

They are literally another row of stops essentially. But the same stops. It works so that you can have 3 different stop combinations that you can change to quickly. You you can have 3 specific arrays of stops set very quickly instead of changing and faffing on with the pistons and all that jazz

[@eugeneylliez829]

Frescobaldi had very big balls too... But your perception of his balls (or his "ballity" xD) depends on your concepts of what is canonical beauty and where in the history of music you put the apex, among other things.

[@XMarkxyz]

I'm looking farward to see this "technical" aspect of the organ ( i.e. tuning, moving, building, etc.); also I'll follow closely the series on learnig organ: I already, sort of, play the piano and would like to know more about how you learn how to play such a magnificient keybord instrument that is the organ

[@finntv4280]

Please visit the Bamboo Organ in the Philippines. ☺️ it is the only bamboo organ in the world.

[@ExAnimoPortugal]

I can't play Bach's organ works since the organ in my local church only has one manual and no pedal board :(

[@ClusterStar]

I took up the challenge to get the piece and study :)........ First variation underway.........

[@bridgediscovery1011]

I am watching this while chocolate at 5:40 am

[@janovlk]

The video is in 4k now!

[@organblower]

Fraser, we are old enough to ignore the "purists" and heel/toe Bach. Beginners should buy a pair of Organmaster shoes and not play just wearing socks. From what I've read about JSB he would be like a kid in a candy store if he sat down at a modern console for a 100 rank organ with computer capture system and MIDI record/play and 80 or so pistons!

[@Samanthareneeheart1]

Frasier the people who are to produce the CD's do you have a signed contract stating they were to produce X number of CD's by a certain date? If so you can hold them in breach of contract get all the money you paid to them to produce them & more as well then go to someone else who will deliver. As for the music love it.

[@daveleadbeater7652]

Can barely hear the keyboard parts. The pedal is too loud. (I am listening with headphones.)

[@jeannebouwman1970]

The hauptwerk could have been a little louder I agree. The whole work is about the bass though

[@Charles-Reardon]

5:55-6:15 If you didn't understand the context that would have a completely different meaning...😂

[@richardjtaylor8545]

Hi fraser or anyone who gets this. I'm getting a bit of a common commenter now.😂 but I have a serious question and I wonder if anyone can give me any advice at all. I mentioned in another comment that my organ was in poor shape and I suspect it's the bellows that are in bad condition and may need re leathering along with the electro pneumatic components which controll the pipes. However the main concern is the bellows/reservoir. Can anyone give me a general price range for how much it would cost to get the bellows re leathered for a medium sized 2 manual organ with around 13 speaking stops. Theres only one reservoir and I would like to know how much it would cost or if there was any way to complete a temporary fix on the bellows myself

[@FraserGartshore]

Where is this organ? Maybe some local organ builders reading this could help out!

[@richardjtaylor8545]

@@FraserGartshore the organ is located in the North East of england. Gateshead (near Newacastle) to be precise. It's very old and most people would probably say beyond repair but I would appreciate any advice I get. Many thanks, Richard

[@AJKProduction08]

@@richardjtaylor8545 If its of any help, I am in the North West and am an Organ builder. I'd be more than happy to arrange to have a look at the organ for you and see what we can do about the bellows. I've recently refurbished a set of bellows in another church in Scotland. Prices are usually based on the physical size of the reservoir so it would be best to check it out first. Let me know if you're interested! I'll eat my hat if its beyond repair!

[@richardjtaylor8545]

@@AJKProduction08 I'll keep it in mind thank you so much. My grandma recently passed away and I've had many things going on so it would probably be a while before anyhting can be sorted but I really appreciate it. If it is any help now I would say the bellows are around 1.5 to 2 meters by 0.5 meters by 0.8 meters when fully extended if I had to hazard a guess. I will speak to the preist when I get a chance and will definitely get back to you Again thanks for the offer Richard

[@bridgediscovery1011]

Chiff chiff chiff chiff chiff chiff

[@saa82vik]

Maybe you don't have the balls to play Feescobaldi in a manner that conveys the subtle beauty of it... ;)

[@Nicolas-zb9uw]

Frescobaldi 's music was conceived for italian organs of the day . Italian organs of these days were built like this : ONE keyboard(!) , most of the time no pedal board .( Frescobaldi was "lucky " enough in Rome , to have a 5 pedalboard. A 5 NOTES keyboard : Ut , re, no e, fa , sol , la . The pedalboard had no independant stops. Only Great to Pedal . Pedal board was so heavy to handle that when you push down a pedal key , you would keep it down for 2 , 3 , 4 measures or more . Stops for the keyboard were at most 10 in number , when lucky . It consist of a complete divided full organ register: principal 8 , principal 4 ' , 2 2/3 (quint ) principal 2' , principal 1' , 2/3,1/2,1/3, 1/4 pitches ( divided mixture), + flauto 8" and 4 ' and a stop called voce humana that is not a reed but a slightly untuned series of pipes, beginning on central C , acting as a celesta, giving a slight , smooth vibrato for the 8' or 4' flute or combination of both. As soon as you have a heavy texture below central c in left hand , this is a sign to play that section of the piece on a 4' pitch or even a 2' pitch , which does a marvelous effect for elevation, communion or dead times in a ceremony . Italian organ 's pipes were rather narrow in widht and never very powerful or agressive . In those days , the organ was never used to accompagny singing of the choir or the faithful in the nave , BUT was used to preceed the gregorian chant , to give the tone to the choir , or to follow the gregorian chant as a musical commentary of the liturgical text. ( Catholic church had statued that a pipe organ , a man made instrument , should not be mix with choir voices , creations of God. Ideology of the day ! ( Are ours better ?) The organ , often , was in the east point of the church, on the left side of the choir . Imagine how so narrow pipes with so few stops could sound in a nave like St Peter 's chapel ! Italian music is intimacy . ( Are you able of it ?) A piece was rarely played on the same stop or stops from beginning to end . A piece was not always played in full extent .Ritual was first and music had to fit in . Musical text was rarely strictly played as score shows. Embelishments were added . When a chord is given , every note belonging to this chord, or scales related to this chord can be played on that beat . etc... Frescobaldi is a late baroque musician . Go to Andrea Gabrieli to have fun with his music.You want make a hit in a concert with such music but it brings a lot of pleasure to an organ player . While playing , think about painters of the time ( Giotto etc...) , life in Venice ,Leonardo da Vinci , day life for the most common peoples etc....

[@saa82vik]

Nicolas glad we went from talking about balls to some discussion about practice. I share many points in Your description about the differences in the organology, except the heft of the transmissions and the prohibition of accompaniment to voices. Of course F.’s music is rendered best on central and north Italian baroque instruments, with their round principal, low wind pressure and clear sounding principal. Although can be played with much pleasure on south Germans and even northern German baroque instruments. Of course you need the right perspective to correctly play Frescobaldi’s delicate rhythmic variations and with the correct registrations (see e.g. contemporary tratises like Diruta or Banchieri) More in general, It’s a bit sad to see how frescobaldi’s genius is treated tho. But again, i’m biased ;) And I share your admiration for the Gabrieli’s. Although I’d rather think to the double choir practice in San Marco or the contemporary treatises to play their music, rather than the Tuscans Giotto and Leonardo, which of course aren’t contemporaries of either Gabrieli’s. The early venetians Bellini and Carpaccio would be more appropriate and above all, Sansovino would be more appropriate choices in time and space. :) but these are just minutiae of a pedant. ;)

[@Elhombresombra]

Quintadena (Quintatön) => World Heritage. Period.

[@lovro1239]

Great camera lens choice much better videos with it!

[@mm5aho]

I have big feet and cannot play with shoes on!

It's not Passacaglia and Fugue, it's just Passacaglia. The so-called "Fugue" is an integral part of the Passacaglia, not a separate movement.