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[@downsman1]

I'm very pleased for Mr Goodall!

[@JW1_1]

I want to be like Henry Willis IV when I grow up! LOL

[@2008truckman]

So the hills really are alive with the sound of music.

[@Sokx41]

This my first visit to Goodalls Organ Works. I grew up with a two-manual Moller pipe organ in my parent's home in Atherton, California, USA. It was moved from a mortuary to our new home in 1941 but the placement of the pipes was not well thought out by our otherwise esteemed architect, Harwell H. Harris, and the pipes were put into a room behind my father's desk that was sunk some four feet below the surface to accommodate the folded 16-ft pipes. Unfortunately, this space flooded in the early 1940s and I did not get to hear the organ play until the early 1950s by which time I was playing a mellophone and a French horn. I enjoyed the segment here on reed organs. My mother's aunt had a playable reed organ in her Suisun home. Both organs are gone now, the pipe organ back to another mortuary and the reed to who knows where.

[@williammitchell1864]

I love the clarity of this video regarding this pipe organ of the Duke. At the Henry Willis estate, I wonder these pipe organs have been sampled? Speaking of the diaphone, I wonder who Invented the Bombarde organ pipe for the pedals?

[@michaelgamble296]

This is a youtube to smile by! Thank you Howard (he said, smilingly!)

[@NJPurling]

The Blenheim Palace organ is now all but derelict. Our local builder was Forster & Andrews of Hull. Their Magnum Opus is the Hull City Hall organ, with all the bells & whistles (literally).

[@TheConsettonian1987]

This was my favourite episode of Howard Goodall's Organworks and I was 10 years old when this was transmitted and now I'm 30, at 10 I always had a passion for organ music especially Theatre organ at Blackpool Tower Ballroom with Phil Kelsall MBE playing the famous Wurlitzer as I am a fan of his.

[@michaelgatien4277]

I like them all :D

[@luismazon]

Can you see the next video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3mYgaRner2gbMU

[@michaelgatien4277]

at 23:59, Love that Long Drawn-Out E Flat :D

[@dinger40]

Had the honour of meeting Henry Willis four (not the fourth)

[@johnferguson4089]

Please check. The 'Wanamaker' organ is certainly a large and very fine instrument but the Auditorium organ in Boardwalk Hall organ, Atlantic City is bigger, being the largest pipe organ in the world with 7 manuals, 1250 stop keys and one of only two organs in the world with a 64' stop, the other being in Sydney town hall, Australia. It was good to see the Tower Ballroom Wurlitzer included also, a very good program.

[@richardc674]

A very valid point. The Organ in the Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City is indeed the largest ever built in terms of numbers of pipes - it has more pipes even than the Wannamaker - but about half of the pipes are missing, damaged or otherwise unplayable. As well as the record 64' stop you mentioned, it also has not just an Ophicleid but a Grand Ophicleid - the loudest Organ pipe in the world, according to the Guinness book of records. The Organ is being restored progressively and maybe one day soon every pipe will be working again.

[@dylandavidshaw]

This program was recorded in 1994 before an accurate pipe count was done at the Wanamaker. An actual pipe count was done in 1999 by the members of the first symphonic organ symposium who’s goal was to bring the organ back to life. As seen in this video, the organ was in pretty rough shape. The console was going through a multi year restoration (explains why the stop tabs are missing in the brief shot of the console) and was already behind. Only the String and Solo division were operational plus the big Clear Flute in the Ethereal and the glockenspiel as heard in the background. The organ has come a long way since the 90’s and is now the Largest Fully Functional Musical Instrument in the world. That is until Boardwalk Hall’s restoration will be completed. As a side note. The piece being played on the Wanamaker is actually the Overture from Gilbert and Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore, not Iolanthe as is written in the video’s description. As a G&S nerd, I thought I’d just point that out…

[@เรียนภาษาอังกฤษวันนี้]

Too bad he didn't visit the Crystal Cathedral!

[@anmattos]

Please could you upload the missing parts?

[@WAX6428]

So, tuning really isn't a priority...................................

[@normanchristie4524]

@Richard Harrold Sounds similar to the Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery organ in Glasgow. It was only restored after much haranging by enthusiasts. Suddenly....(!) it became a 'City Asset'.