The inside of a massive pipe organ is just fascinating!
@andrewbarrett15373 жыл бұрын
Yes, Welte loved to use free reeds in their reed pipes in their orchestrions and residence organs, such as for the trompet and clarinette ranks. Only in the very loud Brass Band orchestrion series (designed to be competitive with fairground organs) did they sometimes add a second rank of trumpets of more conventional design with pipe metal resonators and beating reeds, to the first rank of free-reed trumpets with brass resonators. These instruments are very rare today... there are only about 70-80 or so Welte automatic pipe organs (orchestrions, philharmonic organs etc) known to exist today.
@andrewbarrett15373 жыл бұрын
I've never heard of a Welte orchestrion with this kind of cardboard material for a pipe resonator. All those I've heard of or seen have brass, or sometimes wood, for the reed pipes. I don't know what all they installed in their Philharmonic and other residence organs though. Perhaps they made a few more of this type of rank for those.
@andrewbarrett15373 жыл бұрын
Some Welte organ sounds can be heard in the recording of this orchestrion here. You will also hear tower clocks ticking in the background of the video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnq8p4FnrrZnrLc
@juliangerardcascio1111 Жыл бұрын
Wow We 🎹, hope it's at full Power soon as possible !!😮!!
@Rezyon3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for these videos!
@chrisnagorka51993 жыл бұрын
Glad people like them. I plan to go back to AC in October or November and make some more.
@EElgar18573 жыл бұрын
Very interesting; thank you!
@accousticdecay2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the interesting video; it was a splendid, vicarious experience.
@LeeBlaske3 жыл бұрын
Can those large, water-damaged pipes with cracks be eventually repaired, or does all of that wood need to be replaced?
@chrisnagorka51993 жыл бұрын
Most of those could be repaired.
@anb7408 Жыл бұрын
Holy cow, I thought the Fanfare division was in bad shape. The poor Echo is even worse. Beyond sad.
@frantisekignacdolihal69103 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Is there also some tuning keyboard as it is on the other side of hall in Fanfare chamber?
@chrisnagorka51993 жыл бұрын
Yes there is. Most of the remote chambers have their own little tuning keyboards.
@frantisekignacdolihal69103 жыл бұрын
@@chrisnagorka5199 thank you, if only I could stay at US as working holiday helping at Midmer-Losh...
@Maxxarcade2 жыл бұрын
For any of these divisions that are currently offline, do any of the relay components still move if the stops were turned on by mistake? Or do they have separate power supplies that are turned off? I know the pneumatics won't move if the blower is not on, but it seems like the magnets might still get power at times? Also, the pressurized keyer relay rooms are still a bit of a mystery to me. Does a small magnet release the air in each leather pouch, which then allows the air pressure in the room itself to push them closed?
@cnagorka2 жыл бұрын
That's a good question about the remote chambers and their keying rooms, I honestly don't know. Just because the windlines were cut doesn't mean that the wiring was cut. Of course when they come back on line someday it would all be solid-stated. I have a feeling the grounds are probably disconnected to keep magnets from trying to operate, but I don't know. And with regard to the other question, you have it right, each magnet opens a primary valve, which then exhausts the air in the note pneumatics which close from the air pressure in the room, and "make" the connections to make things play.
@Maxxarcade2 жыл бұрын
@@cnagorka I wonder why they chose to use a pressurized room instead of just operating the pneumatics on vacuum? I know they wanted the relays to be as fast as possible though, so maybe that had something to do with it? It's still hard to believe the amount of work that went into building this organ.
@cnagorka2 жыл бұрын
@@Maxxarcade Employing vacuum would have been even more horrifically complicated as it would require a separate vacuum supply, where they already had pressurized air to use anyway. I've never seen a vacuum operated organ relay, and just one vacuum operated pneumatic console (West Point)
@mitchellscheffler9100 Жыл бұрын
Perhaps this video showed them and my eyes missed it, but where are the chimes of the echo division?
@cnagorka Жыл бұрын
Freeze the video at 5:15 and you can see them in the shot, they're against the wall with the Bourdons with the fallen stoppers. I didn't think to climb up there and show them by themselves.
@mitchellscheffler9100 Жыл бұрын
@@cnagorkaAh, back in the corner. Thanks!
@andyt1424 Жыл бұрын
Were there any recordings of the organ done when the echo and fanfare chambers were working?
@cnagorka Жыл бұрын
Not that we're aware of.
@Empire5263 жыл бұрын
And I thought the organ in my church was in bad shape.
@bencerne25512 жыл бұрын
When was the last time the Echo Chamber functioned or played?
@cnagorka2 жыл бұрын
We don't know exactly but probably late 1950s- early 1960s
@bencerne25512 жыл бұрын
@@cnagorka Apparently the Echo chamber went dead not long after the Fanfare stopped functioning (That division was the first to go dead.)
@cnagorka2 жыл бұрын
@@bencerne2551 when was that?
@bencerne25512 жыл бұрын
@@cnagorka Eric Dolch on the Boardwalk Hall organ fan page said that the Fanfare Division stopped working sometime in the 1950s and not long after that, the Echo division went dead, so probably the late 50s.
@vinzramirez70112 жыл бұрын
That glove creeped me out a bit lmao
@spencerhauck6903 жыл бұрын
Is there any plans to restore any of this in the future?