Boardwalk Hall- 32' Fagotto

[@Engineer9736]

These are the most interesting videos about the boardwalk hall organ findable on the internet. Thanks a lot!

[@chrisnagorka5199]

Glad you like 'em, I look forward to the time I can get back up there and record more of them.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

The 32 ft Bassoon (it's actually Subcontrabassoon).

[@seanwelch71]

Very interesting! Good luck on your work. I would love to hear a fully functioning Boardwalk Hall organ.

[@lampoilropebombs0640]

Damn when he played the first note, I thought my leaf blower at the garage was short-circuited.

[@ds1868]

First note the only impressive one. The rest is a waste of space.

[@drdylanman]

Why do the lower notes sound so quietly? Is it because of the microphones being used, or is it the way they're voiced? They sound more like a 16 ft than a 32 ft, although I could hear on some of them the oscillations that a 32 ft stop makes. I would bet that in the auditorium, it sounds pretty thunderous! Some more videos of the other 32 ft stops would be cool if you ever get time, especially the reeds. :-)

[@chrisnagorka5199]

The bottom of this rank really is that quiet, it doesn't do much. It seems like they either have insanely powerful 32s or this one, with nothing in between.

[@CorvetteCoonass]

@@chrisnagorka5199 Wouldn't it sound louder out in the hall where the waveform could form more easily?

[@chrisnagorka5199]

@@CorvetteCoonass Sounds good in theory but no. You're actually "hearing" the harmonics of the fundamental pitch, which can be heard close up.

[@aaronm.7267]

It’s because it goes below 20 hertz which is our hearing range. So it’s not going to sound right on the low end

[@debim2013]

pls build a video of a 16'foot pedal demonstration

[@williammitchell1864]

I like the 64' Diaphone-Dulzian, 64' Contre Trombones, 32' Contre Trombones, 32' Contre Basons, 32' Contre Bombardes, 16' Bombardes, 16' Basons, 16' Trombones.

[@DJDevvin]

Do they have that on that organ???

[@williammitchell1864]

@@DJDevvin Yes they do! Most of them that I've listed anyway. I don't think they have the 64' Contre Trombone though. The only organ I know of that has a full length 64' Contre Trombone is the organ at the Sydney Hall, in Australia.

[@SirReginaldBlomfield1234]

Tuning is one thing but the regulation leaves a lot to be desired.

[@y11971alex]

I wonder how the principal 32’ on the great organ is holding up. I hear it is in the right stage chamber, so has it been operational for the organ’s life?

[@cnagorka]

The big 32' Open Diapason is in the left chamber and it's going like gangbusters! It just came back on line a few years ago.

[@y11971alex]

@@cnagorka ah, but isn’t that stop (the metal one) in the pedal organ? I was wondering about the wood stop on the right side, or so the stop list led me to think.

[@cnagorka]

@@y11971alex I guess you're right...I don't even know where that stop is on the right side! Regardless, yes, as far as I know it's been working the whole time.

[@craigbrown7929]

The 4 smaller reeds in front of the 32’ octave, I count 4 resonators but only 3 boots.

[@bradycall1889]

Interesting how they tune it by adding an octave

[@vinzchannel01]

Take my subscribe!!!!

[@davidjames1684]

Is that what they mean by a whistle tone?

[@burning_lemons4514]

How can he be doing that without any type of tuning fork or electronic tuner?

[@t.p.ggaming3884]

He has perfect pitch

[@jonathanr6121]

Usually you use an already tuned rank an octave above the one you want to tune. The interference can be heard easily and you keep adjusting the pipe until the interference is vanished.

[@THyperon]

@@jonathanr6121 jep I could do it in my organist exam although Im almost deaf.

[@mumfordthepitbull4581]

@@jonathanr6121 That's exactly what he was doing. You could hear it happening as he was tuning.

[@kaustin9364]

He listens to the beating of the two frequencies between the fagotto and the rank 1 octave apart. I'm a piano tuner, I do exactly the same when listening to the piano strings. As the two notes get more in tune the beats get slower, until it stops altogether and the two pipes are perfectly (in theory!) in tune.

[@richardstoc]

very low volume even when speaking , time to invest in a better Mic pickup

[@chrisnagorka5199]

Had the manual audio level control set low as I thought the pipes would be louder, the mic isn't the problem

[@CorvetteCoonass]

32 ft pipes do not speak as loud up close as they do from a distance.

[@andrewgohring7625]

The speakers you're listening through cannot reproduce what these pipes do.

[@kevinjohnson1919]

Yo yo what is up

[@michaelheintz8853]

Sounds dera to any organists heart.

[@vinzchannel01]

Don't they hurt their ears doing that?

[@davef.2329]

@Emmett the clock collector The gentleman had a yellow hearing protector.

[@paganini8670]

interessante... l'ancia 32' non si sente.