Donnie Rankin and Jelani Eddington at Carma Labs 3-3-2024

[@jorgeandrade20]

I have a feeling my life is not complete until I get to watch a recital in this venue with this amazing, breathtaking, king of instruments!

[@FraserGartshore]

Amazing playing, perfect recording - thanks for sharing and letting us enjoy this fantastic concert!

[@scottmusic242]

Thanks for the message! I've made the offer to get you on the console before....and the offer never expires! Bring your recording equipment and do a livestream for your KZbin channel! A few months ago, Jelani and I were talking about you and a toccata you played by Gaston Belier. It was really great to hear from you!

[@kentesdall308]

Mr. Woelbing, you have assembled one of the finest if not the finest Unit Orchestras any where, I have watched and listened to, I think all your videos. You have some of the best artist come and play for us. Thank you so much.

[@wurlitzer9]

Wonderful playing on the part of both musicians. It really brings out the resources of this ihstrument. I particularly enjoyed Donnie Rankins number "When Your Lover Has Gone." Such feeling and emotion...

[@rexnewcombe8337]

Wow what a beautiful treat , thanks to all of you for sharing this and putting it all together. Thanks to Carma Labs and its fabulous Organ , it really made my day.

[@Harry-qf8gh]

Simply fantastic, wish I could have been there, but since I couldn't be there, this is next best. Thank you ALL for sharing your talents and marvelous instrument!

[@MikeHuffman-Organ-Keyboards]

Truly spectacular gentlemen! I so missing being in WI, and close to the Carma Labs! I had the pleasure of doing the Rhapsody my senior year of college with our orchestra, so know the piece well, and terrific job by both of you! All massive congrats for an incredible program! I have forwarded the link to our Sooner State Chapter here in Tulsa, so all can enjoy! A stupendous job and so nice to hear the live drums, and all that the organ brings along! Well done!!!

[@rickpearce930]

Breathtaking.. Really enjoyed this over here in the UK. Bravo to Jelani, Donnie and all involved. Thank you for posting the video! A Triumph!

[@daviddiffenderfer3836]

Wonderful, I must get out to see this magnificent organ.

[@edwinsinclair9853]

Some fantastic playing here. Thank you Jelani and Donnie.

[@healsinger]

Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!! Two enormously gifted musicians! Thank you for your sharing this.

[@jonathankleefield5520]

I concur with the previous comments, and have recently had the pleasure of hearing Jelani play this incredible instrument, which he has designed, live at last year’s ATOS convention. The scope of the available tonalities is boundless, and only a truly skilled musician like Jelani can take full advantage of what he has created. I agree that while the recording is of excellent quality, nothing quite compares to being there to hear it played. As I was told there are plans to make the hall more of a formal auditorium, and not merely a warehouse, one can only imagine the improvements in sound that will result when the conversion is completed. We owe a debt to the wonderful folks at Carma Labs who have had the enthusiasm and knowledge to permit this project to come to such a successful fruition.

[@scottmusic242]

Thanks for all the kind words. It's actually my family, in particular....Paul Woelbing, who has made all of this happen. Carma Labs doesn't actually own the organ, nor do they have any control over it. It is owned by Paul....and he (who also owns Carmex) keeps the organ in the Carmex 40,000 sq. ft. distribution center warehouse. Also, as you mentioned, this will be turning into an auditorium at the end of this year. Carma Labs will be permanently moving out of this building and into it's new 5-acre building....leaving only the organ here. No more racks of boxes to deaden the sound. Before putting the racks in many years ago, there was a beautiful 3-second reverberation in the warehouse. Those acoustics will be back before the end of the year and everyone is looking forward to it. Don't hesitate to leave a message here for Paul....he deserves all the credit.

[@garymcwithey980]

Bravo, gentlemen! What a great program!

[@CMan-rt9in]

Thank you Gentlemen, great concert and thanks to Carma Labs also.

[@razzbuzz]

A wonderful concert on a wonderful instrument... one day ....

[@screwdriver5181]

Always impressed by this fantastic instrument. Congratulations to technical team who maintain and tune it. I help with a 4 20 Wurly in Stockport in the UK and know what work is involved.

[@edcew8236]

So nice to hear the amazing arrangements, especially the counter-melodies.

[@ColAdamson]

Brilliant. Much thanks!!!

[@marcoroose9973]

Thanks a lot for sharing this with us!

[@dewaldkritzinger3568]

FABOULOUS!!! And INSIDE a musical instrument importing warehouse, where I spent half of my life, doing International buying at Musik Messe and NAMM and others over the years and we used to "undress" and "set up" musical instruments (as they come out of the shipping containers into the warehouse), and set some of them up among the 10m high rows of fork hoist pallet shelving and test them out and "set them up" to be shipped to retail shops... I also did the "front-of-house" retail demonstration of pianos (Schimmel, Kawai, Yamaha, etc.) and KORG Inc (Japan), etcetera. (A warehouse has anything between an "excellent" or "horrifying" acoustic environment..!!! But it didn't matter...!!! WE HAD FUN, because all of us are musicians... Everyone to "his own trade". I'm classically University qualified in piano and pipe organ. THIS just SO reminds me of "making music" in a musical instrument distribution warehouse..!! We also import Rodgers organs and Johannes organs. THANK YOU for this very pleasant video of two great and versatile musicians..!! [Dewald, New Zealand]

[@nancytelling8166]

I was in person at this event~ it was just AMAZING!!!

[@qqalfaqqalfa]

I like StarTrek on Theatre Organ. Thanks from Czech republic :-)

[@jeffs6031]

Absolutely grea stuff. Thanks!

[@comms9803]

I hope to see and play this instrument one day. It really is quite a beast!!!

[@scottmusic242]

Send me your "organ" resume' and I will see about getting you some time on the console if you are in the area. [e-mail]

[@gregferrin9104]

This made my day. Just incredible!

[@jeffsnyder6878]

What an amazing concert!

[@charlestutterman461]

Only can say Bravo! Excellent!

[@Ferret488]

I would LOVE to hear SWISSKAPOLKA from Swiss Family Robinson. Thanks for all you do.

[@RachaelBrassard]

Well that was a whole lotta fun. Thank you!

[@socialite1283]

Really love that rendition of Rhapsody in Blue.

[@thestardusters7640]

Rhapsody In Blue was composed by Gershwin, arranged by Ferde Grofe' and presented by Paul Whiteman.

[@Dojora4]

Correct! I realized I botched that shortly after I sat down! As Homer Simpson would say "D'oh!"

[@thestardusters7640]

@@Dojora4 BTW, I thought your playing was magnificent. That's the FIRST TIME I ever heard a pipe organ really sound like a real orchestra. Wonderful instrument! BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!

[@hansbeestman7460]

Mooi en leuk top gespeeld groeten van Hans uit Zwolle Nederland

[@robertsanders6463]

Amazing!

[@chriswilkinson4044]

What is the last song called? I've heard it as the theme song of a Windows 95 billiards game.

[@jamesfarrell7161]

The Wannamaker organ is way larger than Carma Labs but it does sound really awesome.

[@scottmusic242]

The Wanamaker organ is a concert organ. This is a theater organ. There are no larger theater organs in the world. You are comparing apples and oranges. If you want to compare apples to apples, the Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall organ is the largest concert organ in the world...and much larger than Wanamaker.

[@jamesfarrell7161]

@@scottmusic242 I agree totally. When I wrote that mentally I was thinking the world's largest operating pipe organ.

[@garymahon1955]

And of course, there was a big explosion in a factory, and out came this amazing thing!

[@21299]

B L O W N A W A Y !! Eat your heart out Karl Klein.

[@cjp240573]

Lovely organ, but lacks reverb due to the lack of acoustics :/ otherwise, I'd play it in a hot second :D

[@scottmusic242]

The Acoustics will literally start changing in a few days. Starting this December, 2024, all of the things that eat up the acoustics will slowly get moved out of the warehouse and 40,000 square feet will get opened up. There is about a 2-second RT (reverberation time) when there aren't any racks and boxes in the warehouse, which is perfect for a concert hall. The racks and boxes will never return. Auditorium seating will eventually be put in place. As it was when it was brand new, the building will sound like, and truly become, the indoor concert hall with the correct sound strength, clarity, and lateral energy fraction. This part of the project will literally start in 2 weeks from now.