Breathing New Life Into Pipes of the Past

For the past 175 years, organ builders Henry Willis & Sons have been preserving sacred sounds. The company has been in the business of building and preserving organs since the Victorian period, when founder Henry Willis became famous for creating some of the grandest organs around. Today, they are responsible for having built around 2,500 organs, and restoring thousands more.
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[@sovereign254]

And to think that people think that the violin and piano are the kings of instruments. If they are indeed the kings of instruments then that makes the organ the emperor of instruments. I remember hearing the organ in one of the cathedrals in the city I live during my time as a piano student and it shook me to my core. Since then I've gone on to finish a degree and several diplomas in various aspects of organ performance and haven't really looked back. The piano and violin can move ones soul but none can shake the very foundations of a person's soul like a well-maintained organ in a great acoustic, it's beyond incomparable.

[@MoxieBeast]

this totally reminds me of Mr. Rogers taking us to the saxophone and guitar makers. pipe organs are sooo fascinating to me. thank you for making this.

[@SoundDrout]

This channel has such a high production value, it’s sad that it doesn’t get more views ):

[@michelleirby7587]

Bring back this beautiful instrument to every Catholic mass

[@williammitchell1864]

Michelle irby, catholic mass does already

[@coows]

Building organs is saving lives.

[@gillian9903]

I've been playing the organ for 3 years now and it is an amazing instrument. Great job on the video!

[@Senura101]

Wow 😮 Such beauty 😍 and such music ❤️ Love you Great Big Story ❤️

[@blobs5440]

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[@christwist8455]

Guy with the blue eyes is dreamy lol

[@unleashingpotential-psycho9433]

That would be fun to play on that organ.

[@nicholas_scott]

Check your local church or town hall

[@coows]

Ahh, its fun to play on a liver. Get it?

[@ThePixelPear]

I learn new things about my family name all time. This is just amazing

[@silentdecay]

Absolutely brilliant

[@Lurker1979]

Love the pipe organ, both classical, church and theater organ.

[@Oscar_Armstrong]

How do you get into a job like organ builder? Lol.

[@lauzhenzhoa]

random bird get out

[@michelleirby7587]

Oscar Armstrong you used to be born into it

[@ABCDEFGHdumbo]

as someone who has an organ factory within biking distance... i dunno especially one like this which makes it in a sort-of-Amish kind of way

[@FullOfMalarky]

Oscar Armstrong start out casting or in metal work or cabinet building and then end up at an organ factory for most of them. The rest just love either music or church

[@williammitchell1864]

Call anyone pipe organ company on the phone and you tell them you would like to come to work for them. Go there and fill out an application with either woodworking, electrical or pipe organ playing experience and you've got the job.

[@briankavanagh7191]

Used to be an H willis organ builder great job very rewarding but not very good pay or at least not when i worked for them, it was good to see two from my time still working

[@RezaChity-G]

I love pipe organs! GOOD JOB! :)

[@ecrusch]

A wonderful instrument. Thank you.

[@martinbell3302]

Henry Willis 4 was a character and a half, RIP .

[@NJPurling]

Are there still any of the Willis family involved in the company? Or did they sell the company & the goodwill years ago?

[@craggsknot]

Great video everyday!

[@bloodcrow1006]

Absolute unit

[@BB.halo_heir]

Wonderful.

[@kate-miawhite5633]

Wow this is amazing. I love the sound of church organs so much ❤💖💕💓🙌🙌🙏🙏

[@allluckyseven]

Wish you guys would cut longer videos so you could go into a bit more detail. :(

[@plazasta]

allluckyseven that's exactly what I thought at the end! "What? Already over? But I was loving this!"

[@NosillaWilla]

Why are these videos so short and where do we find full length features?

[@108nighthawk]

Organs are, at least in my opinion, the most impressive and grandest instruments created by man.

[@briankavanagh7191]

Fred no change apart from the glasses comes to us all some quite a bit earlier.

[@TinyRedNinja]

Great videos! I love every single one!

[@nicotinenick]

I love you guys

[@Praenuntium]

I love organs, need to get some Bach in my ears.

[@halfword]

They seem to know a lot about pipes

[@trevin3849]

F*** yeah pipe organs are dope, half to play some Johann Sebastian Bach

[@terrylambert8149]

What do you use for the keys instead of ivory?

[@carolinelancelyngreen6834]

Unfortunately there is no plastic or other material which is quite as good as natural ivory, so existing ivory keyslips are carefully preserved and cleaned, and can last for several hundred years.

[@MarkReviews]

Great Big Story OriGANS.

[@TheClickbaiterA]

I wonder if they have another type of pipe

[@arunb8002]

Notifications squad 😍

[@pepsizer6069]

Old time, pipes

[@alphabbbe8580]

Wow

[@frylock6403]

I wanna hear a black midi on an organ

[@emilyginger6901]

Ive been there

[@plazasta]

emi xo lucky!

[@patrickmeyer2802]

I want to work there in a few years. Already building pipe organs, so who knows?

[@adamdiazzz]

i feel young

[@parthgajjar1607]

Atheist here. I don't know if these organs have any religious significance or not but they sound great and I'd maybe go to a church one day to hear them only.

[@silentdecay]

I recommend it highly...there may be one close but even worth a few hr drive if the right person is playing . . . absolutely a grand experience. (Religious or Not its a spiritual event, says a fellow agnostic-atheist

[@Oscar_Armstrong]

how do you think they sound like shit? it's basically just a super loud and epic piano.

[@silentdecay]

@@Oscar_Armstrong >Who said they sound bad at all?

[@brien1254]

1:45 looks like Robert de niro

[@airacakep]

1:42 he is hot!

[@mankeyfruit4216]

When reading the title, I thought it was gonna be a bong

[@oskardirlewanger631]

0 dislikes.nice

[@hardtime3768]

2 in the morning and I should be in school in 5 hours. But screw it

[@brendabravo3068]

Cool art...😀

[@TornacenseDeFuturo]

Wow you still have churches in England??? I thought it’s all mosques now.

[@nathanericdolloso3204]

What if they get a daughter? Henry and sons and daughters?

[@nickr.t.7959]

Who was here because you thought it was about some kind of other breathing pipes? Wink wink

[@shellbacksclub]

wonder if they're organ donors?... terrible dad joke, I'm sorry.

[@quditgaming]

Cool

[@shellbacksclub]

is a Pipe Organ the worlds largest instrument? 😕

[@patrickmeyer2802]

Yes. Atlantic City Auditorium Organ. Biggest, Heaviest, Loudest.

[@carolinelancelyngreen6834]

Yes! The largest in the UK are Liverpool Cathedral and London's Royal Albert Hall (in that order) each with more than ten thousand pipes.

[@iwasglad122]

@@carolinelancelyngreen6834And both by Willis - Liverpool was Henry Willis III and the RAH by 'Father' Willis!

[@fhartless2116]

LIVERPOOL

[@jaapheslenfeld7365]

For a second I thought it was Hans Zimmer in the thumbnail

[@TrevorNet]

This is why I date older women, to send new life down their pipes.

[@LordFreya-uz4bo]

Wat DA faq dude... That's messed up.. 😵😰

[@christwist8455]

Lmao

[@joyboysplanet]

If you say your first your opinion doesn't matter

[@maxstavrakis55]

You're* First. See what I did there?

[@joyboysplanet]

@@maxstavrakis55 aw fuck.

[@yeety1208]

​@@maxstavrakis55 good one haha

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Second

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2nd

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3rd

[@warmac88]

Cool

[@alisonnorcross951]

Wow